Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
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Covid-19: why the working class had to fight for itself
JOEL HELLEWELL argues that scientists must resist the impulse to remain neutral at a time when the government is ignoring their research and running the pandemic response in the interests of profits, not people
Young workers do want to get involved in Unison, and where that is enabled we see growth in workplace power, argue Unison North West Young Members co-chairs ZAIHERA CHAUDHRY and IAN CAULFIELD
British military spending is among the highest in the world, diverts scarce resources from far better causes and fuels international conflict. It’s time we made different choices, argues LIZ PAYNE
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Animal metaphors are testament to delight in the non-human world and what we hope and wish for human freedom, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT"
Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
IN January 2020 I was preparing to return to my job as an infectious disease researcher.
I had spent the previous month going door to door campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in my home city of Nottingham.
During that time I had several conversations on the doorstep where people told me that they were going to vote Conservative because this would guarantee that Brexit would finally happen.
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