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Scottish government must mitigate Conservative cuts
GORDON McKAY explains why Unison is calling on the Scottish government to make use of its tax-raising powers to alleviate the poverty blighting the country
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
FOUR million children live in poverty across the UK. One in four Scottish children live in relative poverty. Families lack basic income to make ends meet, and the gap between the poor and rich is getting bigger.
Two working parents with two children, on the “national living wage” are 11 per cent short of what you need to meet the costs of a no-frills lifestyle. It is almost double that for lone parents.
Not only are more children being pulled into poverty, research by the University of York shows that children living in poverty are being pulled deeper into poverty.
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