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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Time for the unemployment fightback
ANDY BAIN explains how Britain’s communists have helped the movement prepare for the struggle ahead
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 THE middle of 2020 — its centenary year — the Communist Party was adapting its tactics and creating new arenas for analysis and discussion as the country alternated between partial and full lockdown.
In the months following the declaration of a pandemic, it became clear that the pre-existing capitalist crisis was about to get much worse.
As some of the biggest names names on the high street collapsed it became clear that Britain would face a wave of unemployment not seen for more than a generation. 2021 would also be another centenary, that of the communist-inspired and led National Unemployed Workers Movement, with the lessons and legacy the NUWM brought with it.
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