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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Lockdown, trade unions and returning to work
The Communist Party's ANDY BAIN asks how the labour movement should approach easing the lockdown
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
The government is caught between a rock and a hard place and they will steer towards the rock of profits rather than the people’s health.
The deliberately confusing easing of the existing partial lockdown opens the door to employers to force workers back to unhealthy workplaces and will persuade some of those desperate, for whatever reason, to get out of the house. This could lead to the lockdown crumbling, causing confusion and stress and a high chance of a second spike in deaths.
Covid-19 has exposed the many faultlines of capitalism across the full range of human activity, the economic, political, scientific, infrastructure and the social.
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