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UNISON Young Members conference and Ukraine

By Kieran James Paterson (UNISON Young Members activist and co-convenor, UNISON Members for Ukraine) The 2025 UNISON Young Members conference in October voted down, not overwhelmingly but decisively, an amendment from the union's London Young Members Forum to a motion on war and peace saying that the national National Young Members Forum should note UNISON's … Continue reading UNISON Young Members conference and Ukraine

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How Stalinism Helped Defeat the Great Miners Strike in 1984-85

This years marks the 30th Anniversary of the end of the Great Miners Strike of 1984-45 in Britain. The issue of the Stalinist regimes in  Eastern Europe and became a key question in the strike. The  regime of General Jaruzelski had driven the ten million strong independent trade union Solidarity underground in 1981.  The Stalinist regime … Continue reading How Stalinism Helped Defeat the Great Miners Strike in 1984-85