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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Trump bloodied but emboldened after attack
But it was President Biden, faltering on stage and in the polls, who may have sustained the more serious wound, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: A woman wearing a Trump t-shirt walks past a RIP poster of Thomas Matthew Crooks calling him ‘An American Hero’
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
“I COULD stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” former US president Donald Trump famously boasted at a January 2016 campaign rally in Sioux Center, Iowa.
Instead, at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, somebody shot him. The failed assassination attempt will likely further inflame Trump’s base and boost the Republican presidential candidate’s popularity.
What it won’t do is prompt any calls from the right for gun control in a country where daily gun violence is so routine it barely makes headlines.
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