Trades councils are key to linking up the class struggle at a local level — all unions and union branches must affiliate, writes TAM KIRBY

We must memorialise more of the important events of the workers' movement with real-world events, writes TAM KIRBY, as a new miners’ gala in Fife takes shape

TAM KIRBY argues we can freeze energy bills and the price of essential goods, restore the universal credit uplift and abandon the National Insurance hike — so long as we can build a coalition to tax the rich

TAM KIRBY laments how the auld are held in contempt because we apparently ‘had it so much better’ – when in fact class struggle has been a battle for every generation

TAM KIRBY told the recent online meeting of the Scottish Committee of the Communist Party that the crisis we are in shows no sign of slowing and the government's response has more to do with the protection of finance and corporations than saving lives

Construction apprentices have seen some of the worst employment abuses you could ever come across — but only apprenticeships can solve the coming youth unemployment crisis, writes TAM KIRBY

It is no good telling the people of Scotland that they are against independence if they do not have a real alternative to put to the people, says TAM KIRBY

Whether you voted Leave or Remain, it’s Labour’s policies that will benefit our class, says TAM KIRBY

Scotland’s fabrication yards are lying unused. We need an industrial strategy that will get them working again and provide real, well-paid, green jobs, argues TAM KIRBY

TAM KIRBY calls for reinvigorated People's Assemblies to stop attacks on our welfare state, with locally coordinated bodies in the spirit of the 1919 Scottish general strike

We need action, not words when it comes to ending austerity, says TAM KIRBY