DIANE ABBOTT looks at the perilous political cul-de-sac Labour finds itself in
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Shaking the Labour Party
Under Starmer and Sarwar, both the UK and Scottish Labour Parties are committed to the dogmas of neoliberalism – although signs are that resistance is growing, argues VINCE MILLS
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar during an event in Edinburgh to welcome new Labour MPs in Scotland, following Labour's victory in the 2024 General Election, July 7, 2024
DAVE WARD says the Employment Rights Act can be a platform to build back union power — but only if we can agree a common agenda
A new strategy from the Together Alliance links the fight against racism to the wider struggle over austerity and inequality, says BILL GREENSHIELDS
Linking the General Strike 1926 to the struggles of workers today. General Strike 100 national co-ordinator HENRY FOWLER reflects on his recent visit to the Bristol Radical History Festival
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Bristol Radical History Festival, where the defiant tradition of resistance shaped by ordinary people was centre stage
A new wave of austerity is being prepared, and it’s workers who will be expected to pay for it, warns MICHAEL BURKE
THE Scottish media is, naturally, dominated by the death of Alex Salmond. His life makes good copy: a stellar rise to almost achieving independence in the referendum of 2014 as leader of the SNP and First Minister of Scotland to a prolonged fall.
First, he announced his resignation as leader of the SNP and first minster immediately after the failure to win the referendum and then in 2020 he faced a criminal prosecution on charges of sexual assault.
The jury returned not guilty verdicts on 12 charges and a not proven verdict on a charge of sexual assault with intent to rape.
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