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.
Tag: unite
‘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.