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‘After 14 years, we absolutely need a Labour government’
ROGER McKENZIE speaks with CHRISTINA McANEA about the priorities Unison is setting itself in preparation for a change at Westminster
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VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
CHRISTINA McANEA has been general secretary of Unison for the past three years. I know because I was there and got roundly defeated in the election for the post.
This was my first opportunity to sit with my former colleague since her election to discuss the challenges facing Unison, including, of course, the general election.
We managed to grab some time at the end of the union’s national delegate conference in Brighton last week.
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