ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
A politicised mass movement is what needs to be built
TOM MORRISON looks at the challenges facing Scottish trade unionists as they gather for STUC Congress today
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard addresses the STUC annual congress in 2019
Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
THE STUC acknowledges that it meets this year “in some of the most challenging times that trade unions have ever faced.”
Congress is an online one-day event with all the motions remitted and two general council reports debated.
A strategy is given for the next six months up to the 2021 Congress and the Scottish parliamentary elections.
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