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 Palestinian New Year: a view from Gaza
Gaza resident RANA SHUBAIR asks what 2021 will bring for her people
'Like any mother, I try to instill hope in my children despite the grim circumstances that persist. I teach them that the injustice we live under will end one day and we have to keep shouting and never stop demanding our rights.'
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
WITH 2020 coming to a close, the Palestinian people are holding their breath. Will 2021 be a more welcoming one — one that will heal their long-sustained wounds and calamities?
The United Nations stated in a report that by 2020, Gaza would be “uninhabitable.” Has this gloomy prophecy come true for us?
When I first read that part of the report, I imagined Gaza becoming a ghost town with cracked signs reading “a people once lived here.”
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For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Olive oil remains a vital foundation of food, agriculture and society, storing power in the bonds of solidarity. Though Palestinians are under attack, they continue to press forward write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
