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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Hanging on the coat-tails of ‘Tommy Robinson’
Raheem Kassam, former chief advisor to UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, and former editor-in-chief of Breitbart News London, on stage during a Free Tommy Robinson and Pro-Trump joint rally Whitehall, London
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
RAHEEM KASSAM has become one of the spokesmen for the “Free Tommy” movement and that’s a bad sign.
That’s not because Kassam is a super-effective player on the right — most of his projects have crashed and burnt or sputtered along — but because Kassam is a wannabe and an opportunist.
And if the latest hard-right project is attracting careerists as well as ideologues, that’s a sign something is happening.
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