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From a trades councils perspective, TOM MORRISON gives the lowdown on STUC Congress, where debates on Palestine solidarity and cuts to local council funding were hot topics in the debating hall
CATCHWORD: STUC general secretary Roz Foyer ahead of Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (below) speaking at the Congress at Caird Hall in Dundee last week
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
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
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
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 Star’s coverage of last week’s successful Scottish Trades Union Congress, ably chaired by Comandante Mike Arnott of Dundee TUC, makes the task of an assessment, without repeating what readers have already read, rather challenging.
So I’d like to focus on the view from a trades council, including some of what we at Clydebank TUC (CTUC) were involved in.
Among the political visitors to Congress were Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, whose address was almost Fidel Castro-like in length if not in content. In usual, Anas-style, he said what he thought his audience wanted to hear.
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