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Analysis: Leftists Are Panicking About Unite’s General Secretary Election. Should They Be?

Ell Folan

After Howard Beckett’s withdrawal, two leftwingers remain in the race to succeed Len McCluskey. Stats for Lefties founder and Novara Media columnist Ell Folan looks at whether this really is the vote-splitting disaster some claim, or the sign of healthy union democracy.

Report: Could BrewDog’s Cancellation Trigger a Reckoning Across the Craft Beer Industry?

Matthew Curtis

Last week, over 130 current and former employees of the UK’s largest indy brewery penned an open letter condemning the company's exploitative practices. Beer journalist Matthew Curtis asks whether this unprecedented action could have industry-wide implications.

Jon Boyega shouts into a microphone

Analysis: How We Win: The Movements

James Schneider

Arguments are won with actions, not words. If socialist ideas are to become reality, we need power, and to generate it, we need movements, writes Momentum co-founder James Schneider.

‘It’s Not a History Lesson Anymore’: The Union Activists Taking on a London Pub Chain

Joe Hayns

Hot on the heels of union campaigns at TGI Fridays, Wetherspoons and more, workers at London's Antic pub chain are demanding recognition and a roadmap to the London living wage. Joe Hayns interviewed two union members for Novara Media.

Long Read: #OurUCU: The Real Culmination of the UCU’s ‘Turnaround Year’

Craig Gent

Attempts to avert any discussion of Sally Hunt's leadership of the University and College Union at its annual congress have exposed a schism between two models of trade unionism.

Lewisham East Shows How Corbynism Has Transformed Labour

Aaron Bastani

On Saturday Janet Daby beat Sakina Sheikh and Claudia Webbe to become Labour’s candidate for Lewisham East. Over the short span of the campaign it became clear just how much has changed in the party - and what remains to be done, argues Aaron Bastani.

An Interview with ‘grassroots’ Unite leadership contender Ian Allinson

Joe Hayns

The grassroots, socialist candidate, did not intend to run until he heard Len McCluskey had resigned in December last year, triggering an election that 'shouldn't even be happening'. He pitches himself as an outsider, 'challenging the status quo from the left'

5 Ways Hotel Workers are Leading One of the Most Important Union Struggles in the UK

Ewa Jasiewicz

The London hotel sector is known as the 'Bermuda Triangle' of union organising. There are no collective union agreements in any of the major chains. Impossible to break in? Luckily there are over 1000 hotel workers in the capital fighting to win.

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