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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No to the US blockade of Venezuela
Trump’s sanctions are damaging chances of dialogue in Venezuela, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
An anti-imperialist rally in support of President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas last year
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 ITS latest move to strangle the Venezuelan economy and bring Venezuelans to their knees, the Trump administration has levied new punitive sanctions against the Russian state energy giant Rosneft for trading Venezuelan oil, as well as the Venezuelan state-owned airline Conviasa.
These aggressive measures are the most recent in what now amounts to an extensive economic blockade of Venezuela of the type employed against Cuba since the early 1960s.
This involves an oil embargo, the international blocking of bank accounts and obstruction of financial transactions outside Venezuela and other restrictions.
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