The SNP’s government programme for the next five years raises the threat of more cuts and attacks on the public sector, engagement with unions and service users is essential, argues ROZ FOYER
Let’s set out some clear red water
As Scottish Labour conference takes place in Glasgow, CAROL MOCHAN MSP sees some specific challenges facing the party north of the border
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar during the Scottish Labour Party conference at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, February 16, 2024
MARK JONES recounts the remarkable revolutionary pioneers Goodwyn Barmby and Catherine Watkins, who brought the term communist into the British labour movement.
The West’s policies in Yemen are in tatters as the Ansarallah forces have taken strategic territory and humiliated Saudi-backed militias. This provides an opportunity to end Britain’s shameful policy in the region, argues STEPHEN BELL
KEITH FLETT pays tribute to the resilience of the peace and anti-imperialist movement in Britain that emerged after the September 11 attacks and is ever-more needed today
The US administration is endangering lives by reversing environmental protection laws, CHAUNCEY K ROBINSON argues
It’s time to stop retreating and go on the offensive to promote working-class interests, argues DOUG NICHOLLS
IT’S Scottish Labour conference time in Glasgow and as always that means some self-reflection as a party is required.
With Labour looking likely to form the next British government, it is perhaps more important than ever we really pay attention to what is said and decided here over the next few days and, most importantly, take part democratically in the debates and the decisions ourselves as members and trade unionists.
It does feel as if there is a different atmosphere around conference this year. I accept that over most of the last decade there have been few occasions apart from 2017 where you could genuinely say Scottish Labour felt like it was experiencing a resurgence, but there is definitely a renewed sense of opportunity pervading the conference hall this year with council by-election victories under our belt and promising polling providing the wind in our sails.
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