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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Why we should rally in support behind Chris Williamson
The Derby North MP has paid the price for putting his head above the parapet and being the voice of all of us on the radical left – he now needs our solidarity, says JYOTI WILKINSON
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
APART from the birth of my daughter, the proudest day of my life was June 8 2017.
Standing on a genuinely transformative and progressive manifesto, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour had inflicted a shock and overturned the Tory government’s majority.
This was polling day after Theresa May had called the snap general election, and also the day that we had returned Chris Williamson MP — who had declared himself the most pro-Corbyn candidate in Britain — to his rightful place representing Derby North in the House of Commons.
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