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From the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in to today
The recent growth of the unions in membership and activity gives us the chance to learn from the past and turn the tables on the right-wing agenda, says KATE RAMSDEN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
LAST WEEK I chaired the Our Class, Our Culture event for the Morning Star, looking at how the trade union movement defeated anti-trade union laws and an anti-working-class government 50 years ago and the lessons we can learn for the present day.
It was inspiring to hear from Davie Cooper and George Kerr, both veterans of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in, about their experiences 50 years ago and how unity was won across the yards, across the trade union movement and across wider civic society.
Brenda Carson, a GMB convener and current chair of the STUC women’s committee, bridged the gap between then and now, speaking from her own experience of how memories of the past can inspire the present.
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