The massacre of Red Crescent and civil defence aid workers has elicited little coverage and no condemnation by major powers — this is the age of lawlessness, warns JOE GILL
Scottish independence and the British trade union movement
JOHN McINALLY argues the British trade union movement can maintain unity by adopting an independent class position and fully supporting the democratic right of Scottish workers to pursue national self-determination

THE re-elected Scottish National Party government, with Green Party support, has won a clear mandate for a second independence referendum.
The Scottish Trades Union Congress has passed a motion stating that “the Scottish Parliament should have the power to hold a referendum on Scotland’s future and should not require UK government consent.”
This democratic right to a second referendum must be unequivocally supported by every socialist and trade union leadership throughout Britain and Ireland.
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