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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Bob Crow: The man the press loved to hate
Bob Crow's effectiveness made him a target for the right wing tabloids
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 RMT has long been one of the favoured groups to shackle in the tabloid stocks and throw rotten vegetables at.
The London Evening Standard, for example, has for years loved to run "commuter misery because of the hard left"-style reports, even if there is no basis in fact.
The RMT in some senses filled the role the National Union of Mineworkers played for the press in the 1980s. For Arthur Scargill, read Bob Crow.
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