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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Labour, anti-semitism and the emperor’s new clothes
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
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN’S two weavers convince the emperor that his new suit is only visible to those worthy of their positions.
Both the King and his entourage are too fearful of being exposed as unworthy and pretend to see the suit where none exists.
Finally, it is a child, unencumbered by the social forces who exposes the trick. Like the child, it takes a Jewish group outside the entourage to call the bluff.
We know that the wave of anti-semitism in the Labour Party is invisible because, when we ask party branch members — and we have asked very many during this show — if they themselves, personally, have actually seen examples of anti-semitism within the party, rather than having heard reports of it, or seen it elsewhere in the public domain, the answers are overwhelmingly negative.
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