DIANE ABBOTT looks at the perilous political cul-de-sac Labour finds itself in
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It is unions that have given us hope of building a better Scotland after the pandemic
The values of our movement – of solidarity and co-operation – can prevail, says Scottish Labour leader RICHARD LEONARD
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard speaks to NHS workers and UNISON members from Lothian Health Branch and Scottish Healthcare during a rally outside the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh
DAVE WARD says the Employment Rights Act can be a platform to build back union power — but only if we can agree a common agenda
A new strategy from the Together Alliance links the fight against racism to the wider struggle over austerity and inequality, says BILL GREENSHIELDS
Linking the General Strike 1926 to the struggles of workers today. General Strike 100 national co-ordinator HENRY FOWLER reflects on his recent visit to the Bristol Radical History Festival
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Bristol Radical History Festival, where the defiant tradition of resistance shaped by ordinary people was centre stage
A new wave of austerity is being prepared, and it’s workers who will be expected to pay for it, warns MICHAEL BURKE
TODAY, representatives of Scotland’s organised labour movement meet in circumstances none of us could have predicted a year ago.
Bustling conference centres and the raucous entertainment of the Morning Star’s Congress social seem a distant memory — but recent news of the development of a vaccine has planted a seed of hope that this essential meeting of minds can resume in physical form next year.
But while we all want to see a sense of normality restored to our daily lives, this Congress is a chance for Scotland’s working people to affirm that there should be no return to the old, failed normal of Scotland’s politics and economics.
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