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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IHRA and anti-semitism: has the Israeli lobby shot itself in the foot?
We lost the battle over the definition of anti-semitism, but enforcing it won’t be easy for Israel’s enforcers, explains GLYN SECKER
Protesters outside Labour HQ in favour of the IHRA definition earlier this month
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
THERE is no doubt that the volley of examples of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism raining down on the Labour Party’s NEC and the leader of the opposition (Loto) team has done damage and forced a public retreat.
The piece de resistance was number 7 — “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, eg, by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavour.”
This is a cluster bomb all on its own: it wipes out the right of Palestinians to refer to the ethnic cleansing which they suffered in the founding of Israel, bars criticism of the Nation-State Basic Law which has formalised the racial privilege of Jews over Palestinians; curtails the right to free speech within the Labour Party on these racist acts; and becomes a tool for attacking Corbyn and expelling his key supporters.
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