General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Beyond the shouting: building lasting solidarity against the far right
Pushing back fascists requires more than weekend protests, argues MATT KERR, as he recounts lessons from a year-long campaign to defend refugees in Erskine and calls for sustained community engagement
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After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
LIKE hundreds of others, I found myself standing in Glasgow’s George Square last weekend for a rally against racism.
Loitering at the back, we struggled to hear or even see the speakers for much of the time, but soon heard a voice from behind on a loudhailer.
“I’m Alastair McConnachie …” he said, walking towards the rally with his grinning chum, holding aloft a placard reading “asylum frauds out.”
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