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Community wealth-building in North Ayrshire shows the way forward
One Scottish council is already breaking with the neoliberal norm and using a new approach to build 1,625 council homes and three council-owned solar farms – this is the example the CWU wants to see spread, writes CRAIG ANDERSON
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THE local elections are just a few weeks away and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) believes that, with the current cost-of-living crisis and the continuing reduction in funding from the Scottish government to local authorities, we need a new approach by all local authorities in Scotland.
This new approach is already delivering results in North Ayrshire, where the community wealth-building model is demonstrating that there is a different way.
The CWU is supporting this approach, which is now Scottish Labour Party policy for all council candidates, but is calling on all political parties and councillors in Scotland to adopt this model and policies.
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