Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
A new referendum will distract from the class struggle
A vote on Scottish independence only eight years since the last will replace this new unifying wave of worker militancy and strikes with a disabling polarisation between right-wing unionism and nationalism, warns JOHNNIE HUNTER
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon speaking during an event in Edinburgh to outline Scottish independence plans. Issue date: Sunday June 26, 2022.
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
KAY GREEN explains how the Middle East and colonialism were explored at at last weekend’s FiLiA conference
ROS SITWELL reports from Europe’s largest feminist conference – hosted this year in Brighton
Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER gives an update on the drive to raise £95,000 to see the people’s paper keep fighting the good fight against the rich and powerful
FIRST MINISTER Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement of plans for a second referendum on Scottish independence last month came off the back of Britain-wide RMT rail strikes which captured the public imagination and inspired trade unionists across the country to be bold again.
In the face of an intense so-called cost-of-living crisis, organised labour is standing up and fighting back with a determination not seen for some time — from the Glasgow cleansing workers to the railworkers and university staff across Britain, to the recent CWU national ballot.
For the left and labour movement in Scotland these developments offer an electrifying change to disabling polarisation between right-wing unionism and nationalism.
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