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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Nuclear-powered crony capitalism
SOLOMON HUGHES explains how the Tories bailed out Hitachi to save billion-pound atomic Anglesey deal
EDF Group chairman Jean-Bernard Levy chairman of EDF Group, Energy Secretary Greg Clark and China General Nuclear chairman He Yu signing the Hinkley Point deal two years ago
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
ENVIRONMENT Secretary Michael Gove promised earlier this month to crack down on “crony capitalism.”
At the same time his cabinet colleague Energy Secretary Greg Clark was offering a £5 billion bailout to Japanese nuclear firm Hitachi. It looks like a classic crony capitalist deal.
Gove argued: “Crony capitalists have rigged the system in their favour and against the rest of us.”
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