The Starmer project is going up in smoke – but if the left cannot swiftly build a viable alternative, the country faces the grim reality of a hard-right takeover, says ANDREW MURRAY
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Scotland has a government more interested in performance than policy
STEPHEN LOW casts a sceptical eye on a supposedly ‘new era’ for the SNP under Humza Yousaf
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS: New SNP leader Humza Yousaf
POA general secretary STEVE GILLAN argues that while Labour’s 2025 Act was a step forward, a second wave of legislation is vital to restore the fundamental right to strike and end the exploitation of prison officers
Mehmet Turkmen, president of Birtek-Sen, has been cleared of criminal charges after speaking out against the high rate of workplace injuries and deaths in Gaziantep’s textile and carpet industry. OZLEM TEMENA reports
Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
“ALL WE ask is the opportunity to serve,” said Humza Yousaf on becoming SNP leader.
That he chose to quote Labour’s John Smith was a marvellously telling moment.
Not, though, because there is much political overlap between Smith’s mildly reformist social democracy and the SNP’s palliative neoliberalism. Rather it was illustrative of the gulf between appearance and reality in governing Scotland.
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