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Advances for Scottish women undermined by economic policy
Although there has been some limited progress, how can we talk about flashy ideas like ‘feminist city planning’ when overall poverty and austerity have savagely attacked the position of the majority of women, asks HAILEY MAXWELL
Scotlands First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
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The Morning Star publishes the Communist Party of Britain's 58th congress address by general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS, delivered on November 15 2025
In part III of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells the extraordinary story of the attempts by ‘moderates’ to prevent leftwinger Mark Serwotka from taking the leadership of the then-newly formed PCS union
JOHN ELLISON takes a look at Sir Keir Starmer’s track record of duplicity and betrayal since taking the Labour leadership role, as highlighted in a new book, The Fraud, by Paul Holden
THERE are few better times in the year than the eve of International Women’s Day to consider, in brief, the situation of women in Scotland. This year will be the last March where Nicola Sturgeon will be in office, though the possibility that she will be followed by another woman seems quite likely.
Under our first female First Minister, a number of promises for change have been made and some important reforms have been enacted, particularly around public-sector understanding and responses to gender-based violence.
The Scottish government’s Equally Safe strategy around the eradication of gender-based violence has begun the work of taking a systemic approach to undoing several centuries of ingrained misogyny through interventions in education, local authority practice and in healthcare.
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