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A California union’s decision to host a meeting about US policy towards Cuba has prompted a congressional probe and renewed attacks on international solidarity, writes CAMERON HARRISON
Telling it how it was
A century since the publication of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, conditions have improved for some but the system of exploitation Robert Tressell described is as entrenched as ever. TREVOR HOPPER on the man and his work
The Baltic state is set to reverse its constitutional prohibition on nuclear weapons and foreign bases as part of accelerated Nato war preparations, warns TOM UNTERRAINER
Long-term underfunding and state neglect, while simultaneously probation services have been undermined, have intensified the prison crises, argues SOLOMON HUGHES
Holyrood incompetence has cost jobs and put the future of Clydeside’s Ferguson Marine shipyard into jeopardy. Its future should have been assured, argues KENNY MACASKILL
With the agitated debate now raging in the media about the early release schemes, Prison Officers Association general secretary STEVE GILLAN gives the view of those who work in the sector
The hounding of the late Jason Arday is an all too familiar experience for many black people. ROGER McKENZIE calls for collective action to combat what can feel like personal isolation
"The Golden light that will be diffused throughout all the happy world from the rays of the risen sun of Socialism."
Well, Robert Tressell (real name Noonan), we are still waiting. The final sentence of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is not the only line from the socialist polemic that can seem at best ironic 100 years after its publication.
The penultimate paragraph refers to "the Nemesis which was overtaking the capitalist system... was now fast crumbling into ruin... its memory universally excoriated and abhored."
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