The truth will out: we are here to unveil the full scale of the government’s complicity in genocide and to hold it to account for the monstrous bloodshed in Palestine, writes JEREMY CORBYN
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KENNY MacASKILL argues that ports are a local community assets and as such should be governed by corresponding municipalities or even nationalised
FOREIGN CASH COWS: Forth Port’s bid to be a new green freeport to be centred in Leith has been approved after the UK and Scottish governments last January
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FREEPORTS are rightly in the public eye but what about port ownership? That has had much less publicity but is often equally insidious.
Freeports are of course a shameful tax dodge, undermining workers’ rights and distorting our economy. They’re also a licence for organised crime.
As a former justice secretary, I previously chaired the Scottish Anti-illicit Trade Group, an amalgam of public and private organisations to address illicit and counterfeit trade.
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