BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
Nothing is too good for Scotland’s schemes
SEAN O’NEILL explains how Wyndford housing estate activists fighting to save their high-rise homes from demolition will continue to defend their built heritage throughout a summer of struggle
Locals want the blocs to be invested in, not demolished
[Edd Carlile]
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal
The nation’s leading second-hand socialist bookseller that has been running strong for 33 years is changing hands and expanding its vision — now is the time to get involved, buy, donate and support, writes ANDREW MURRAY
HERE in Scotland, the old regime is dying and the new is yet to be born.
The nationalist government and its market-driven agenda has betrayed the nation. State-monopoly capitalism in a kilt is a bad look.
People grow more conscious of the fact that big business is served by political elites of all shades, in Westminster and Holyrood, who manage the common affairs of the ruling class at the expense of working people and their families.
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