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
The welcome news that Cuba has finally been removed from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list is tempered by the fact that Donald Trump, the man who put it there, is returning to the White House, warns NATASHA HICKMAN
Thanks to impressive progress in Britain with wind and solar generation, clean electricity now costs a fraction of the price of gas — yet the current system keeps bills artificially high to protect fossil fuels, writes TOM HARDY
By spreading race-based conspiracy theories, the billionaire tycoon turned right-wing provocateur has been seriously undermining the case against those who really did let victims of the grooming gangs down, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Many Western countries are grappling with deep political instability. What are the causes of this, and what could be a possible way forward? asks MARC VANDEPITTE
KEITH BENNETT explains why, despite its present meagre economic outcomes, an honest and fruitful partnership with China is worth pursuing
Nick Wright talks to photographer and author JANINA STRUK
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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With the Scottish government’s Budget day coming up in early December, BRENDA AITCHISON presses for public services to be properly funded at last after years of neglect and austerity
This year is the Unison Year of LGBT+ Workers, and this means all of us in the trade union movement must acknowledge the deepening challenges that are emerging in Britain and around the world, writes BRENDA AITCHISON
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Scotland is looking at a groundbreaking extension of social provision — or is it? Unless this project is publicly funded and run, with the private equity firms and hedge funds kept out, it will be a step sideways at best, argues BRENDA AITCHISON
