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We are winning this fight
General secretary of the STUC ROZ FOYER salutes an almost unprecedented year of workers’ struggle that now has to stamp its will on the governments of Britain
YEAR OF ACTION: Roz Foyer speaks at the STUC’s Scotland Demands Better rally in Edinburgh, December 8 2022
The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
IT GOES without saying that this year’s STUC Congress comes at a pivotal moment for our movement, our class and our politics.
Our movement is mobile. It’s angry. It’s active and it’s loud. We’ve not seen the sustained, united levels of public outcry and energy from every corner of our affiliation for generations.
We have seen working people, led by the delegates attending STUC Congress, taking ownership of their lives, demanding the means of a better life.
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Police Scotland has admitted institutional racism as an inquiry tries to uncover the truth over the death of the 31-year-old unarmed black man killed in 2015, and bring closure for his family, writes ROZ FOYER
There’s no avoiding the reality that decent public services need to be properly funded – and that means a progressive system of taxation, argues STUC leader ROZ FOYER
As we begin our annual St Andrew's Day march, we need to take an honest look at what the workers' movement still has to do to achieve racial equality, writes ROZ FOYER
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