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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The PCE at 100: a century of the Communist Party of Spain
Members of the PCE living in Britain look back at the struggle against Franco, the guerilla resistance and clandestine years under fascism, the decline in support due to Eurocommunism and its current rebirth as a party of government with two ministers in parliament
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
Origin and early years
Our history starts in October 1917 with the triumph of the Bolsheviks in Russia and the change that this important event brought to the working class around the world. The effect of this in Spain was the creation in 1920 of the Spanish Communist Party by members of the Socialist Youth who decided to join the Communist International.
Shortly after, in the context of an extraordinary congress of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol — PSOE) of 1921, a sector of the party split, founding the Spanish Communist Workers Party. Both the Spanish Communist Party and the Spanish Communist Workers Party were combined and created the Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de Espana — PCE) in November 1921.
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