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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Setting our sights on social justice in Scotland
GREGOR GALL previews a new book aimed at the Scottish radical left
Climate activists protesting in fake blood during the official final day of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow
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 over a decade now, political debate — and politics itself — in Scotland has now been acutely polarised between those supporting independence and those supporting enhanced devolution.
This has caused often rancorous and unedifying divisions on the radical left.
The upward trajectory of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) from 1999 to 2004 marked a move by those supporting a socialist version of independence to reconfigure the debate away from the widespread notion that independence must be gained first and then social and economic questions could be settled later on.
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