Mass mobilisations are forcing governments to seriously consider imposing sanctions and severing ties — even in places like Australia and the Netherlands — despite continued arms shipments to Israel’s war machine, writes RAMZY BAROUD

GLASGOW is struggling, public services have been repeatedly cut back, there are thousands left stuck on social housing lists and we have a public transport system that only makes sense to the profiteering shareholders of the private companies that have been allowed to run it.
But right now the council is consulting on introducing a visitor levy across the city that has the potential to generate much needed cash for our city’s struggling services. The only problem? They want to put the money back into tourism.
For most workers and tenants Glasgow is no longer an affordable place to live. Since 2010 private rent has increased 30 points above inflation while workers’ wages have stagnated. As a result thousands are considering having to move out of the neighbourhoods and communities they call home, often having to move away from family, friends and established caring and support networks.

Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON


