From the ‘motherhood pay penalty’ to low-paid care work, the Morning Star Women’s Readers and Supporters Group in Scotland has been looking at how neoliberalism has been pushing back women’s hard-won gains, writes KATE RAMSDEN

KATE RAMSDEN calls out the SNP’s political choices, citing STUC research showing billions could be raised through progressive taxation to fund vital social work and care — instead, we’re being threatened with more cuts

KATE RAMSDEN explains why Scottish women decided to set up a women's RSG and invites all sisters to attend its next webinar on Tuesday

Properly funded public services are good for the economy as a whole, says KATE RAMSDEN

In Gaza and the West Bank children are living in a world of horror, forced to watch their friends and family killed or maimed, traumatised by the constant danger from the Israeli attacks, writes KATE RAMSDEN

In the past, egalitarian trade union politics went hand in hand with how we saw our role in society itself — we must fight to preserve that in the changing sociopolitical context, writes KATE RAMSDEN

Unison will commemorate International Women’s Day in Glasgow this year with a series of workshops and entertainment, writes KATE RAMSDEN

Unison completely supports a new, expanded care system — but what the Scottish government has put in front of us enables the break-up and privatisation of social work, institutionalising insecurity, warns KATE RAMSDEN

We were beginning to make progress on the challenges facing social workers that see so many leave the job only a few years after qualifying — instead the NCS Bill has taken things out of our hands once more, warns KATE RAMSDEN

The recent growth of the unions in membership and activity gives us the chance to learn from the past and turn the tables on the right-wing agenda, says KATE RAMSDEN

Although Challenge Poverty Week is a worthy endeavour, we need to be much more radical if we’re to address the constant economic pressure on the very poorest in society, says KATE RAMSDEN

A breakthrough independent review has taken place over 3 years, speaking to 5,500 social workers, looked-after adults and children, reports KATE RAMSDEN