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Another week, another strike
Unison local government committee member BRENDA AITCHISON explains why huge numbers of local government workers in schools will be taking strike action next week across Scotland
ANSELM ELDERGILL recalls the misjudgments, mishaps and moments of farce that shaped his years in legal practice
MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
Amid the festive lights, Scotland faces a stark holiday truth: only real investment in public services and the workers who sustain them can lift communities out of poverty, argues LILIAN MACER
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
A GREAT deal has been written about the unprecedented number of strikes which have taken place across sectors of the economy since we moved out of the pandemic.
It was in March 2020, just before lockdown, that the broadcaster, author and DJ (all-round polymath) Stuart Maconie wrote in his book The Nanny State Made Me about just how many services we rely on and the need for them to be properly invested in.
Millions of those workers who were the backbone of the country during the pandemic and beyond would have rightfully thought they would not be forced to use their industrial muscle to gain better pay. How wrong they were, and strike action has been taken in record numbers.
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