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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The attacks on our class are attacks on women
From Cyprus, SKEVI KOUKOUMA looks at how the pandemic has been used by capitalists and their governments to undermine the rights of European workers
Cypriot MP Skevi Koukouma
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
WOMEN will have to wage difficult but pressing struggles in the period ahead — this is the main concern of the organisations affiliated to the Women’s International Democratic Federation as outlined during a recent online meeting of its European office.
First, as far as health, healthcare, medicine and even scientific research in the field of medicine is concerned, it has now been proven that capitalism has dealt a devastating blow to the rights of the people. It isn’t a question of the quality of life, but of life itself now — and this has been demonstrated all through the pandemic.
As regards health systems, an unprecedented failure has been noted. Even if initially it was impossible to predict the magnitude of the needs arising from the pandemic, almost all capitalist states didn’t proceed to any proper preparation, through a substantial increase in the number of beds and ventilators or the hiring of more doctors and nurses to deal effectively with the pandemic’s subsequent waves. The result was that lives were lost.
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