It’s hard to understand how minor divisions can come to dominate the process of building a challenge to the rule of the rich when the desperate need for a vehicle to fight poverty and despair is so abundantly clear, writes MATT KERR

The Prime Minister’s hamfisted promotional video promising to go ‘further and faster’ coincides with Angela Rayner’s resignation over tax dodging and Mandelson’s long overdue departure over Epstein — incredible timing, writes MATT KERR

Remembering the 1787 Calton Weavers strike, MATT KERR argues that golden thread of our history needs weaving into the fabric of every community in the land

A man at Glasgow’s Communist Party stall wearing a James Connolly shirt proclaimed himself a communist, then denounced asylum-seekers as an ‘invading army’ — but compromising won’t help, argues MATT KERR

MATT KERR charts his bike-riding odyssey in aid of the Royal Marsden charity and CWU Humanitarian Aid

Protesters take to Aberdeen's streets to protest against the US's far-right president's trip

Campaigners promise to welcome the US president to Scotland with a ‘festival of resistance’

Twelve months into Labour’s landslide sees non-violent protesters face proscription for opposing genocide and working people, the sick and the elderly having fear beaten into them daily in the name of profit, writes MATT KERR

As Scotland’s inept political class hold endless summits on topics ranging from Reform to seagulls, and management culture replaces political leadership, MATT KERR goes for a hike to take his mind off the unfinished, unaddressed and undone

Davy Russell cornered over previous jobs

As Gaza burns and politicians abandon ‘bairns not bombs’ slogans to embrace a war economy, MATT KERR exposes the real purpose behind Britain’s EU fishing agreement: accessing €150 billion in militarisation funds

University bosses refuse to rule out cutting staff

In his Aw That column MATT KERR looks, with dejection, at the opportunities squandered in the 80 years since Victory in Europe