SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
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The labour movement must take a lead on the Scottish independence debate
PCS is calling for the STUC to facilitate a union-led ‘constitutional convention’ to represent the voices, views and vision of working people across Scotland for our future. LYNN HENDERSON explains
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
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime
by Dr David Lowry, Institute for Resource and Security Studies
This strike is about pay and conditions, says CAMERON HARRISON – but it also shows workers have the power to disrupt the mightiest war machine on Earth
IT’S two months on, Boris Johnson is in power, the Withdrawal Agreement Bill has passed and the battle to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader is turning toxic.
For the past couple of years under Corbyn’s leadership, there was real hope for an alternative socialist government that even in Scotland united many on the pro-independence left with those who travel on a different road to socialism.
When the exit polls came out at 10pm on December 12, I was in BBC Radio Scotland’s Glasgow studio with former Scottish republican turned Tory MSP Adam Tomkins and the SNP’s Shirley Anne Somerville.
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PCS senior national officer LYNN HENDERSON explains why the union is growing and taking more industrial action despite the hostility of the current government to workers’ demands
