DIANE ABBOTT looks at the perilous political cul-de-sac Labour finds itself in
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Are we a’ Jock Tamson’s bairns?
With the far right preparing for a ‘Pro UK rally’ in Glasgow in a few days’ time, we must get ready to mobilise, while also recognising that poverty and disaffection are playing their part in this alarming rightward shift, warns VINCE MILLS
Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Stand Up to Racism, in George Square, Glasgow, August 10, 2024
DAVE WARD says the Employment Rights Act can be a platform to build back union power — but only if we can agree a common agenda
A new strategy from the Together Alliance links the fight against racism to the wider struggle over austerity and inequality, says BILL GREENSHIELDS
Linking the General Strike 1926 to the struggles of workers today. General Strike 100 national co-ordinator HENRY FOWLER reflects on his recent visit to the Bristol Radical History Festival
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Bristol Radical History Festival, where the defiant tradition of resistance shaped by ordinary people was centre stage
A new wave of austerity is being prepared, and it’s workers who will be expected to pay for it, warns MICHAEL BURKE
JUST IN CASE there was still any reason to believe that somehow Scotland does not harbour an anti-immigrant and racist right, this last year has demonstrated beyond doubt that such assumptions are very wide of the mark. The evidence has not only come in polling forecasts, and actual votes, but from the streets.
For 58 weeks there was a stand-off outside of Erskine’s Muthu Glasgow River hotel, where around 150 refugees were housed.
As covered faithfully by the Morning Star, members of the right-wing Patriotic Alternative and Homeland Party protesting about the presence of the refugees were faced down by Paisley and District TUC supported by Clydebank TUC, Stand Up to Racism, the local Young Communist League and many other individuals.
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