Paul Howes has been branded one of Labor’s faceless men, the union boss accused of helping to remove Kevin Rudd and installing Julia Gillard. Howes’ diary of the 2010 election campaign is now in print as the book Confessions of a Faceless Man. This is an insider’s account of modern campaigning ALP-style. Strategy meets stuff…

Paul Howes is the National Secretary of The Australian Workers’ Union. He became a Union official at the age of 17, and since then as worked in reforming the union’s internal structure, implementing new strategies to organise non-union workplaces and consolidate membership in a number of industrial and manufacturing sectors. In Paul Howes’ address to…