TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
Covid prevented last year's AGM, but your paper is working to hold one this autumn
People's Press Printing Society chair BOB ORAM explains our plans
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
IF, ON March 11 2020 when the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic you had told me we would have to not just cancel that year’s annual general meeting of the People’s Press Printing Society, but seriously delay the next year’s, I would not have believed you.
Trying to second guess the behaviour of a government that has played Covid like a game in a casino was not something the management committee was prepared to do and safety has always been foremost in our mind.
The pandemic is an experience none of us has ever had before and I believe your management committee’s decision to not go ahead with the usual cross-country AGM tour in 2020 was the right one.
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A message to readers from People’s Press Printing Society chair BOB ORAM
