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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Hereditary peers embarrass democracy
by Willie Sullivan
House of Lords
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
FOR a while, it looked as if we’d see the end of the hereditary principle in our politics.
Most of them went in “stage one” of Tony Blair’s reforms in the late ’90s, but here we find ourselves, several governments later, with 92 of them still hanging on to their inherited places at the heart of our democracy.
Westminster is a place where the elite seek to protect their position as chief decision-makers — none more so than these 91 men and sole woman.
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