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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Hare today, gone tomorrow?
At the start of a new month, PETER FROST looks at an animal forever connected with that month – the mad March hare
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 month of March, they say, roars in like a lion and creeps out like a lamb. It isn’t either lions or sheep I most associate with this often wet and windy month but hares.
We have two types of hare in Britain, one is the mountain hare (Lepus timidus), with a population well under half a million. It lives in Scotland and the north of England and if the weather is snowy enough in winter its fur turns white.
And there is a subspecies of the mountain hare called the Irish hare (Lepus timidus hibernicus) which is found only in Ireland.
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