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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Clydebank TUC secretary TOM MORRISON welcomes moves to unite the various anti-austerity campaigns in Scotland
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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
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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TOM MORRISON looks ahead to next week’s STUC Congress
