The Trump government is seizing overseas students from their homes and campuses and even off the streets, with no legal grounds and no due process, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Is the tide beginning to turn in Scotland’s council chambers?
Support is growing for mass resistance to attacks on local jobs and services, says KEITH STODDART
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
Our unions need to make a firm stand against so-called ‘defence spending’: the boss class say there’s no magic money tree — and there should be no magic mushroom cloud either, argues NATHAN HENNEBRY
KEITH FLETT revisits the 1978 origins of Britain’s May Day bank holiday — from Michael Foot’s triumph to Thatcher’s reluctant acceptance — as Starmer’s government dodges calls to expand our working-class celebrations
RMT leader Eddie Dempsey's stark warning shook up a fringe meeting at the Scottish TUC
Incredibly, US Republican states are systematically dismantling child labour protections, with children transformed back into the cheap, disposable workers of the Dickens era, reports ANDREW MURRAY
KYRIL WHITTAKER looks at what guides Vietnam 50 years after reunification
LAST August, the People’s Assembly Scotland published its latest version of the publication In Place of Austerity.
This third edition was subtitled “A Programme for the People” and, while focused on influencing debate in the run-up to local authority budget-setting, it attempted to go beyond this, providing the opportunity for discussion around what our communities actually need and how we could achieve this.
It’s a campaigning document aimed at affiliates and activists on the front line of the protests against cuts in local services.
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