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Why are today's progressive political heroes still old white men?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are today's progressive political heroes still old white men?

...leadership contest, while Sanders achieved a 22-point victory over Hillary Clinton in the recent New Hampshire primary. To their supporters, both represent the possibility of a different kind of politics, one that offers to convert grassroots energy into electoral success and genuine progressive change. As Sanders declared in 2014: The major political, strategic...
What is a confidence and supply government?
Society, Politics & Law

What is a confidence and supply government?

...leadership election or with a new and potentially more right-wing leader, would be unable to muster a rainbow coalition. The Conservatives would also be limited in their actions by the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, making it more difficult to bring governments down and force a second general election. The big problem The trouble with this type of agreement, which generally...
Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers

...leadership. Their challenges included developing a group repertoire and sound where some membership was regularly changing, or had mixed ability, nationalities and the challenges of singing outdoors. Sometimes people don’t see the value in specific group based activity, preferring a wider inclusive approach. I sometimes hear ‘why do you want to be all separate when we...
How radical was Martin Luther King?
History & The Arts

How radical was Martin Luther King?

...leadership. He thought the white racists of the South could be countered by the ministers who took a stand for equality. At the time, his concern with economic justice was a secondary theme in his addresses and political advocacy. Speaking at Vanderbilt University in 1957, he professed his belief that “there is in the white South more open-minded moderates than appears...
Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...leadership and vision, enriching the lives of so many families in Manchester’s African Caribbean community and fostering the creation of organisations that today are platforms for further growth and development. Transcript To close, here is the voice of another strong Guyanese woman, the poet Grace Nichols. Her poem echoes the spirit of Betty’s work with women in...
Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...leadership as well as facilitating and overseeing group and team working, and managing conflict. This week we explore team working from start to finish. This includes deciding if the creation of a group or team is the best approach to the task in hand (it is not always!), selecting individuals to work in it, setting up the team-working processes, supporting teams through...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...leadership and teamwork. Engaging with the course will contribute to building skills, including empathy, understanding anti-racism, understanding different cultures, diversity, inclusion and allyship – increasingly ‘essential’ in job descriptors and promotion criteria. Who is this course for? [A photograph of the four course authors.] The course authors (from left...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Protest Banners: Trade Union
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Trade Union

...leadership of the Bolshevik government prioritised education and free access to knowledge and culture for all. And harking back to the Hercules strike banner of 1889, the British Dockers’ homegrown cry for justice and equality, it too had a green and red background. These are the colours of conflict, so curtain up for a new dawn of a better society I would say (End of...