Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
Labour needs to be bold right now
From health and safety, to job security, to forthcoming local and mayoral elections, there’s lots of areas where Labour, and Scottish Labour, must put forward positive action proposals, says ANN HENDERSON
Ann Henderson
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
AS THE impending economic crisis occupies the minds of the trade union and labour movement, alongside the continuing public health emergency, organising to recruit, represent and give voice to those most affected has to be given priority.
Speakers at TUC Congress last week, and the Labour Party’s virtual Labour Connected events, have left us all in no doubt that this is urgent.
In Scotland, following calls from Scottish Labour, the Scottish Parliament did meet throughout the summer, albeit on fewer days and often in a virtual setting.
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Despite promises of a new era under state control, the SNP government backs massive cuts to ticket office hours while ignoring safety concerns and excluding disabled passengers from consultation, writes ANN HENDERSON
ANN HENDERSON, of RMT Scotland, reports from STUC women’s conference in Glasgow earlier this week where sisters gathered to highlight the issues facing women in the workforce
In light of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre being found to have constructively dismissed a worker who held that service users should be able to know the sex of the staff they were seeing, ANN HENDERSON argues that lessons need to be learned in order to uphold women’s rights
The 1967 Abortion Act always was regarded as a compromise — now is the time to further cement and improve the right to free, safe, legal abortions for all women, argues ANN HENDERSON
