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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‘Without working people on our side, what does Labour even mean?’
IAN LAVERY, JON TRICKETT, LAURA SMITH are in no doubt that increasing working class representation within the party is now a must for Labour
SEEN BUT HEARD? Keir Starmer on the doorstep in Seaton Carew, County Durham campaigning during the Hartlepool by-election
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
THE Labour Party is facing one of the most difficult periods in its existence, and recent polling suggests we are not rising to the moment.
That the Conservatives hold up to a 14-point lead in some polls after the year we have just endured makes for genuinely frightening reading.
But Labour’s problems are not new. The result in the 2019 election was a result of long-term decline in Labour support from its working-class heartlands that dates back the latter half of the 20th century.
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