TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
CND in Scotland — ‘needed now more than ever’
ARTHUR WEST, chair of Scottish CND, looks back at a year of campaigning ahead of the organisation’s AGM
A CND activist outside the Faslane naval base in Scotland
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
IN Scotland we are very conscious that 25 miles down the road from our biggest city the Faslane naval base houses the Trident Nuclear Weapons system.
Trident is a fearsome weapon of mass destruction. Each Trident warhead is at least six times more powerful than the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima at the end of the second world war.
If the Britain were ever to use such a weapon, even against military targets, it would cause millions of deaths and injuries.
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While working people face austerity, arms companies enjoy massive government contracts, writes ARTHUR WEST, exposing how politicians exaggerate the Russian threat to justify spending on a sector that has the lowest employment multiplier
As war spreads around the world, the revolving door between government ministers and arms companies demands stronger trade union opposition, argues ARTHUR WEST
Before voting we'll be well advised to look at the various political parties' stance with regard to nuclear weapons, suggests ARTHUR WEST
As political rhetoric tilts towards militarisation from both major parties, we must push on to redefine the role of the international courts and the very concept of ‘security’ itself, writes ARTHUR WEST
