A day of strike action is set to be unleashed today, against tax injustice, attacks on pensions and the anti-democratic manoeuvrings of Macron, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
Connecting the Labour party in Scotland with community campaigns and grassroots struggle
ALISTAIR CRAIG talks to Conrad Landin about Scottish Labour Young Socialists’ plan to put Labour back at the centre of domestic politics

IN the first four months of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, Labour doubled its membership in London to 81,000.
In Scotland, however, the story was very different. The party, then led in Holyrood by Kezia Dugdale, put just 2,000 new members onto its grand total.
Though Corbyn had been well received at rallies north of the border, it seemed like it would take more than a left-wing Westminster leader to challenge SNP hegemony.
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