While riding the No 3 bus in Glasgow MATT KERR has ample time to dissect the moribund Scottish Labour decline into near oblivion and watch intriguing bus passenger dynamics
A people’s plan for action
Clydebank TUC secretary TOM MORRISON welcomes moves to unite the various anti-austerity campaigns in Scotland
The best wildfire service may begin with the community, argues KOMAL RAJ ARYAL
Dignity is important to all humans, argues the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School, but it does not come about automatically. In a less than perfect world, dignity can accompany suffering, but the collective dignity of working people is achieved through acting together to change the world.
The US aim to reshape the existing order in the Middle East needs to be resolutely resisted, argues PAYAM SOLHTALAB
Concessions to Washington by the post-Maduro leadership in Caracas are designed to preserve the core of the Bolivarian Revolution not betray it, argue Roger D Harris, Francisco Dominguez and Mara Paez Victor. How the solidarity movement responds is critical
ALMA EGAN suggests four days out that bring the region’s history of protest to life
SCOTLAND, like the rest of Britain, has had yet another Tory prime minister foisted upon it. Austerity has returned to the political agenda with any pretence of “levelling up” binned.
Rampant inflation and soaring energy costs, rising debt with the possibility of securing an affordable mortgage a pipe dream, our health service at risk of being overwhelmed — all that is still with us, as are plans for more anti-trade union legislation.
Pension fund collapse is maybe not such a possibility given the latest Chancellor (at the time of writing) has succumbed to the wishes of the market.
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