SOLOMON HUGHES says even electoral defeat isn’t a deterrent to right-wing MPs: pro-corporate policies might lose elections but they can be lucrative nonetheless
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What’s at stake at this STUC Congress
From a ‘just transition’ to support for ‘fair work’, TOM MORRISON gives his round-up of a Congress that faces a Tory government determined to remove yet more power from councils and, of course, the working class
Schools are at breaking point, argues NASUWT general secretary MATT WRACK — we urgently need investment in our kids’ futures
MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
THE 125th STUC Congress currently meeting in Aberdeen has an impressive progressive agenda that will build on the STUC existing strategy document For a People’s Recovery.
The composite on finance and taxation policy focuses on the tough times ahead for our public services.
The Tory government has decreed virtually level funding for Scotland for the three years to 2024, in face of record inflation.
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Congress can chart a bold course that will force meaningful transformation for the people of Scotland