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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The man who wrote Tarka
PETER FROST tells the sinister story of Henry Williamson – otter enthusiast, fascist and Hitler admirer who wanted TE Lawrence to become Britain’s own Fuhrer
Henry Williamson by Charles Tunnicliffe
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
HENRY WILLIAMSON wrote his fine book Tarka the Otter in 1927. It made him both rich and famous, but there was another, much darker, side to this man for Williamson was a fascist, an admirer of Hitler and an enthusiastic supporter of Oswald Mosley and his blackshirts.
His writings between the wars were an odd mixture of wonderful descriptions of nature and paeans of praises of German national socialism. He was one of the first join Mosley’s British Union of Fascists.
Williamson attended Adolf Hitler’s notorious Nuremberg rallies and met Hitler himself. Those meetings would lead to his greatest act of treason.
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