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SAFETY FIRST: A file photo of a welder wearing protective equipment
STUC 2026 / 22 April 2026
22 April 2026

ANDREA BRADLEY highlights how a City of Glasgow College health and safety dispute is the subject of an STUC Congress emergency motion

PRIORITY: 60% of people in Wales are worried about climate change
Features / 22 April 2026
22 April 2026

A growing coalition, Cymru Together, is challenging traditional politics – calling for practical plans that connect climate action with economic justice, writes BETHAN SAYED

(Above) Live leaf cells of the moss Bryum capillare, showing abundant chloroplasts (green spherical bodies) and their accumulated starch granules; (below middle) a pitcher plan. Pic: Des_Callaghan/CC
Science and Society / 22 April 2026
22 April 2026

ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT delve into the strange, active – and sometimes predatory – world of plants

A Typhoon FGR4 at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, March 27, 2026
Features / 22 April 2026
22 April 2026

While politicians fixate on defence budgets, the real answers lie in peace-building and economic justice, says ALAN SIMPSON

Louise Raw
Anti-Racism / 21 April 2026
21 April 2026

Speakers at the Morning Star’s recent conference highlighted historic and present-day activism while challenging far-right narratives and calling for solidarity with abuse survivors. LYNNE WALSH reports

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, after he returned from Miami, April 12, 2026
Anti-War / 21 April 2026
21 April 2026

CND and the Stop the War Coalition are calling for a mass protest this Saturday to end British complicity in illegal US strikes at RAF Fairford. SOPHIE BOLT explains

ALL HEARD BEFORE: Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar visits to Wishaw, while campaigning for the upcoming Holyrood election on Wednesday April 15
Voices of Scotland / 21 April 2026
21 April 2026

Labour government must urgently start to implement the policies on which it got elected, or it will face curtains, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP

RECALIBRATION: (Left to right) Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, SNP leader John Swinney and Reform UK Scotland leader Malcolm Offord during the Scottish party leaders Channel 4 news election debate
Features / 21 April 2026
21 April 2026

Rising discontent is fuelling Reform UK’s advance ahead of crucial polls next month, but behind the insurgent branding lies an agenda of more cuts and austerity, says RUBY GIBSON

People attending the People's Assembly Against Austerity protest in central London, June 7, 2025
STUC 2026 / 21 April 2026
21 April 2026

The labour movement must challenge the endless austerity narrative — and Unity Consulting will play its part to complement the work already being done by trade unions

Firefighters from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) take part in the Cuts Leave Scars rally outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, calling for an end to cuts imposed on the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service over the last 10 years, October 26, 2023
Workers' Rights / 20 April 2026
20 April 2026

A recent Union Street blaze showed firefighters at their best, but years of underfunding and job losses are stretching the service to its limits, writes JOHN McKENZIE

Salmon
STUC 2026 / 20 April 2026
20 April 2026

Dangerous conditions and political inaction still define the salmon industry, where BFAWU is pressing hard for change, says SARAH WOOLLEY

STUC general secretary Roz Foyer delivers a speech during the SNP annual conference at the Event Complex Aberdeen, October 11, 2025
STUC 2026 / 20 April 2026
20 April 2026

As the STUC gathers in an election year, the message to politicians is clear – continuing managed decline is unacceptable to Scotland’s workers, says ROZ FOYER