General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Humza Yousaf: a bad start
The new First Minister may have inherited a mess not of his making, but that only compounds his incredibly weak commitment to progressive reform and generally poor helmsmanship, writes CAROL MOCHAN MSP
Humza Yousaf: a bad start
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
IT has been all change among the elite of Scottish politics lately. During a tempest of scandal and declining support, the SNP have a new leader and Scotland has a new First Minister — but the fundamental contradictions in our society and economy remain the same.
The anointed prince is of course Humza Yousaf — and he has gotten off to a bumpy start, to say the least.
Yousaf has been a regular fixture in key positions at the top of the Scottish government since Nicola Sturgeon rose to power following the failed 2014 independence campaign. Always in favour within his party, the public reception has been less adoring, and it would be fair to say that his record as cabinet secretary for health, and before that, covering the justice portfolio, was more than a bit suspect.
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