Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
ON November 18, just days before the 50th anniversary of United Nations Resolution 242, the US State Department took its first step towards severing ties with the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO).
The timing of this decision could not be any more profound.
The first formal contact between the US and the PLO occurred in mid-December 1988, when US ambassador to Tunisia Robert H Pelletreau Jr picked up the phone to call the PLO headquarters in Tunis to schedule formal talks.
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights


