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28 February 2018
Union-led campaign beats Blairite attacks on homeless
We shamed the council into withdrawing the attack - which apparently were all 'just a mistake' anyway - but they should be ashamed
5 May 2017
After the Unite elections - now turn outwards
The Unite elections represent a defeat of the Blairite forces both inside the union and Labour. They must now be used as a platform to strengthen the left in Unite.
5 April 2017
Name and shame the worst behaviour by housing associations
Which association has the most overpaid chief executive? The worst record on maintenance? The poorest relationship with its staff? The recently formed Housing Associations Workers and Residents Network (HAWRN) has announced an 'alternative' housing awards ceremony.
5 April 2017
Support Len McCluskey and United Left candidates before ballot closes
The ballot in the Unite union general secretary and executive elections closes on 19 April with the Blairite challenger to Len McCluskey, Gerard Coyne, continuing to use the hated Sun newspaper to attack McCLuskey and Jeremy Corbyn
15 February 2017
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles. Unite the Union gears up for leadership elections, and issues an ultimatum to Ford
25 January 2017
2017 Unite general secretary and executive elections
For the Socialist Party, this election is a fundamental clash about the political and industrial strategy of the biggest union in the country
18 January 2017
Four Socialist Party members are standing on the United Left slate in the Unite executive elections that take place at the same time as the union's general secretary ballot
16 November 2016
Support the campaign to readmit expelled socialists
75 socialists, with more than a thousand years' membership of the Labour Party between them, have collectively applied to the Labour Party's national executive committee (NEC) to be readmitted.
26 October 2016
Housing campaigners meet to plan resistance to the Housing Act
The new housing act will destroy social housing and smash up working class communities while doing nothing to help the desperate housing crisis if fully implemented. Over two hundred people attended the Axe the Housing Act 'summit' on 22 October to discuss how to fight back.
6 July 2016
Unite policy conference 2016: Union could place itself at the centre of anti-austerity fight
The biennial policy conference of Unite the Union in Brighton 11-15 July takes place against the backdrop of a political crisis unprecedented since 1945.
18 November 2015
The end of social housing? How can we solve the housing crisis?
The cat is out of the bag. As the Financial Times reported: "Chancellor George Osborne is considering a radical multibillion-pound plan to privatise the government's stake in housing associations".
15 September 2015
NSSN rally calls for mass action to 'Kill the Bill!'
There was standing room only as hundreds of trade union activists attended the National Shop Stewards Network rally and lobby of the TUC in Brighton on 13 September
2 September 2015
Join the NSSN lobby of TUC Congress
Kill the bill!: Rob Williams explains why all trade unionists should come to the NSSN lobby of TUC Congress to build the pressure for mass action to defeat the Tories' planned anti-union laws.
8 July 2015
NSSN conference 2015: "We could stop austerity in its tracks"
Militant trade unionists from across the country gave inspiring accounts of strikes and struggles against austerity. Britain needs a 24-hour general strike.
1 July 2015
Britain's biggest union to discuss leaving Labour
Britain's largest trade union, Unite, will discuss making major changes to political strategy at its four-yearly 'rules conference' on 6 to 10 July.
18 March 2015
Socialist elected to Unite executive council
Socialist Party member Suzanne Muna, secretary of the Housing Workers branch, and a United Left candidate, has been elected unopposed to represent the London and Eastern region on Unite's executive council
11 February 2015
Unite: elect fighting socialist reps
Socialist Party member Suzanne Muna is standing to represent London and Eastern region on the Unite union executive
Defend the Four: protest against Unison witchhunt, 2009, photo Suzanne Beishon
28 January 2015
Book review: Unison bureaucracy unmasked
I recently read Unison Bureaucracy Unmasked: The Defend the Four Story, a restrained account of a shameful episode in the history of Unison, writes Maurice Sheehan, Ex-staff member, Unison.
10 September 2014
At Unison's 2007 conference, the union's standing orders committee ruled out of order a third of branch motions, including ones questioning union strategies and the union's link with Labour
Defend the Four: protest against Unison witchhunt, 2009, photo Suzanne Beishon
12 June 2013
Unison conference - time to reclaim the union
How socialists fought off the witch-hunt: After six years, Unison's national leadership has thrown in the towel over a vicious witch-hunt against four Unison activists, all Socialist Party members
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