‘If Cuba can offer its people so much with so little, why can we not do the same?’

Two young UNISON Eastern activists have just returned from a ‘life-changing’ trip to Cuba, witnessing first-hand the socialist island’s struggle to survive and its huge May Day celebrations

UNISON ‘will be the voice of the Global South’ at Cop26 talks

UNISON will be the voice of the Global South at the upcoming Cop26 talks in Glasgow, Eastern region’s international seminar heard today. After a predictably bumpy start with the technology, UNISON international officer Nick Crook opened the online seminar with an overview of the union’s priorities in the international arena, pointing out that global inequalities […]

International solidarity will be key to breaking the blockade of Cuba

With a new man in the White House, Cuba has a real opportunity to ease the 60-year US economic blockade on the island, but it will take more international solidarity to press change. That was the message from Cuba Solidarity Campaign’s Natasha Hickman to UNISON Eastern international committee’s latest session on Tuesday evening. She explained […]