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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I’m a former gang member and I’m done peddling positivity
CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA explains how neoliberal capitalism has an active interest in the pacification of working-class youth with depoliticised mentorship programmes
Young people are often distracted from everyday structural violence through government-funded programmes that promote capitalist idealism through motivational speakers — and 'anti-gang' mentors can be part of that
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
TWO days before my 18th birthday in January 2007, I had police advise me to move out of the South London council estate I grew up in as my life was in danger. My role as one of the masterminds of a local gang brawl that resulted in several stabbings meant that revenge was imminent. Just a year later, having left gang life behind and still riddled with anxiety and depression due to PTSD, a government-funded charity recruited me to speak in schools to dissuade students from joining gangs.
I was trained to preach a sterile idealism that encouraged underprivileged teenagers to ignore their material and social realities. Their reward for staying positive and staying within the prescribed rules and laws was the prospect of a career.
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