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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From Sharpeville to Gaza: the international fight against racism
ADRIAN LEE reports on the annual Anti-Racism Day event held by The Liberation Movement, an anti-racist campaigning group founded in 2021
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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
THAT an Irish nationalist MP hosted this year’s The Liberation Movement (TLM) UN Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination meeting in the House of Commons was politically significant. It symbolised the similar racial discrimination faced by Irish and black migrants who came to Britain as workers in the 20th century.
The event fittingly commemorated the notorious Sharpeville massacre of March 21 1960 in apartheid South Africa at a time when apartheid Israel is involved in a genocide against Palestinians in a Gaza it has all but destroyed, killing more than 33,000 mainly women and children as a result.
In a sad sign of the times, Labour MPs who are TLM supporters had pulled back from booking a room and attending, fearful of repercussions from a shamefully draconian party leadership that has suspended black MPs and other leftwingers, including Diane Abbott and Kate Osamor.
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