NICK TROY lauds the young staff at a hotel chain and cinema giant who are ready to take on the bosses for their rights
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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
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DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
As Saudi Arabia is hailed abroad for its ‘reforms,’ the reality for women inside the kingdom grows ever more repressive. On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, MARYAM ALDOSSARI argues it is time to stop applauding the illusion – and start listening to the women the state works hardest to silence
With Petro, Colombia has been making huge strides towards peace — but is all that at risk with the elections next year? MARK ROWE reports back after joining a delegation to the Latin American country
With violence against women and girls reaching unprecedented levels – particularly in the north of England – Unison North West is driving a union-wide push for education, prevention and trauma-informed support, writes JOANNE MOORCROFT
Amid national economic decay and with a lack of coherent left-wing responses, far-right narratives on women’s safety and immigration have taken root in former Labour heartlands. The WOMEN’S LIBERATION ALLIANCE warns that only a renewed politics rooted in an understanding of class, race and sex can stem the rise of authoritarianism
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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