If parties are serious about rebuilding trust, as the elections approach, they must embrace bold redistribution, invest in public services and put working people, not the wealthy few, at the heart of Scotland’s future, argues ROZ FOYER

Sinn Fein’s CHRIS HAZZARD MP addressed the closing rally at Latin America 2026 earlier this month with a reminder that the struggle for national dignity and popular power is no longer regional or symbolic — it is the front line of a global realignment led by organised peoples who refuse to bow to empire. The Star republishes his speech here

LEIGH SEEDHOUSE looks at why special educational needs is in crisis — and why the government’s pledge of Send training for every teacher is a poisoned chalice

As Beijing gathers for its annual ‘Two Sessions,’ all eyes are on China’s technological blueprint that will steer the world’s second-largest economy forwards in the coming period, says ZHANG HE

Twice elected in Battersea, ‘Comrade Sak’ devoted his life to the twin causes of working-class struggle and Indian independence – a legacy now honoured 90 years after his death, write DAVID HORSLEY and JEANNE RATHBONE

The real question for Your Party, as it holds its CEC elections, will be whether shaped from above or built from below by empowered branches and a bold, uncompromising socialist programme. Mel Mullings, Riccardo la Torre and Chloe Braddock of the Grassroots Left slate set out their case