JAYNE FISHER on why the government’s latest amendments to the Crime & Policing Bill, which returns to the Commons on Tuesday, is a serious threat to our freedoms
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Choose organisation, not demoralisation, in the face of council cuts
Thanks to dynamic trade union and community campaigning, youth co-ordinators in Glasgow have won a temporary reprieve for the jobs – but the battle against the cuts is far from over, says SEAN O’NEILL
Trade unions, including UNISON, GMB, Unite and the EIS, protest against cuts in council jobs and services outside the City Chambers in George Square, Glasgow, February 14, 2024
A surge in futures activity minutes before news of US–Iran talks has led to questions about insider trading and oversight gaps, writes CJ ATKINS
In his fortnightly Borderlands column, MARK SEDDON visits overgrown forts along Offa’s Dyke and reflects on wars past and present
With attacks on industry, healthcare and education intensifying, JAMSHID AHMADI warns of a deliberate drive to cripple Iran and calls for urgent global action
The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) cautiously welcomes the ceasefire, but remains suspicious of US and Israeli intentions
JOHN McINALLY assesses what we’ve learned from the disastrous US war so far
RIGHT across Britain local authorities are on the brink of collapse, with public services crumbling and working people left to pick up the pieces.
Scotland’s largest local authority, Glasgow City Council, currently proposes to make more than £100 million in cuts to vital local services over the next three years.
The trade unions must be militant. Glasgow’s SNP administration, backed by its partners-in-crime, the Scottish Greens, are provoking an industrial response with this budget. They will not get away with the political decision to inflict yet more pain and misery on working-class communities, which must be built back up from passive recipients of cuts to the site of a rejuvenated anti-austerity movement.
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Fans have beaten repressive, stigmatising legal attacks on themselves before, but now a new wave of repression is building Scottish trades councils are looking to organise new community resistance, reports SEAN O’NEILL