Cuba, despite the privations, remains a beacon of sovereignty and resistance to imperialism, writes BERNARD REGAN
THIS winter more and more of our fellow citizens will go hungry. In Scotland and across the UK people who have never suffered from food insecurity before will, for the first time, not have enough food to feed themselves and their families.
This is a very real and immediate human rights crisis that needs a very real and immediate response.
Last Friday, The Larder hosted a National Emergency Food Summit. We issued an open invitation to statutory and non statutory organisations, voluntary and community groups, politicians, trade unions, academics and individuals, from across Scotland, to come together in an effort to find a collective way forward to put food into people’s bellies this winter.
From the ‘marketisation’ of care services to the closure of cultural venues and criminalisation of youth, a new Red Paper reveals how austerity has weakened communities and disproportionately harmed the most vulnerable, write PAULINE BRYAN and VINCE MILLS
Tackling poverty in Scotland cannot happen without properly funded public services. Unison is leading the debate



