RMT leader Eddie Dempsey's stark warning shook up a fringe meeting at the Scottish TUC
How do we define consent and why does it matter?
The relevance that rape law places on ‘a rapist’s state of mind’ makes a mockery of women’s autonomy, argues legal scholar WENDY MURPHY
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
Scotland’s rapidly growing support for Reform UK is the result of a profound crisis of trust in mainstream politics — one that progressives share, and must harness, writes DEREK THOMSON
COLL McCAIL rejects the Scottish Establishment’s attempt at an ‘elite lockout’ of Reform UK and says the unions should be wary of co-option by their class enemies in Holyrood just to keep one set of austerity-mongers in power instead of Reform UK
That Scotland was an active participant and beneficiary of colonialism and slavery is not a question of blame games and guilt peddling, but a crucial fact assessing the class nature of the questions of devolution and independence, writes VINCE MILLS
The devastating impact of austerity has left Scotland’s education system on its knees, argues ANDREA BRADLEY, urging politicians to show courage by increasing wealth taxation to fund our schools properly
PERSONAL autonomy is among the most precious of human values.
John Locke described it as a natural law that recognises the basic human right to self-determination. We shouldn’t even call it a right, because some things are so important we ought not codify them, lest they become subject to exceptions and legislative whims that can’t be reversed. Like the old camel’s nose in the tent problem — once the nose is in, the tent will surely fall.
We express our commitment to the profound nature of autonomy when we forbid things like slavery and torture, and when we say things like “my right to swing my fist ends before it hits you in the nose.”
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