RMT leader Eddie Dempsey's stark warning shook up a fringe meeting at the Scottish TUC
Remember Matthews and Collett: pick your own protests
This month, on the 50th anniversary of their Olympics protest, we must keep in mind the two athletes' career-ending action and remember that we can never wait for an ‘acceptable’ time to offend the status quo, writes ROGER McKENZIE
BLACK POWER: Wayne Collett’s 1972 protest would cost him his career
Incredibly, US Republican states are systematically dismantling child labour protections, with children transformed back into the cheap, disposable workers of the Dickens era, reports ANDREW MURRAY
KYRIL WHITTAKER looks at what guides Vietnam 50 years after reunification
Scotland’s rapidly growing support for Reform UK is the result of a profound crisis of trust in mainstream politics — one that progressives share, and must harness, writes DEREK THOMSON
COLL McCAIL rejects the Scottish Establishment’s attempt at an ‘elite lockout’ of Reform UK and says the unions should be wary of co-option by their class enemies in Holyrood just to keep one set of austerity-mongers in power instead of Reform UK
That Scotland was an active participant and beneficiary of colonialism and slavery is not a question of blame games and guilt peddling, but a crucial fact assessing the class nature of the questions of devolution and independence, writes VINCE MILLS
The devastating impact of austerity has left Scotland’s education system on its knees, argues ANDREA BRADLEY, urging politicians to show courage by increasing wealth taxation to fund our schools properly
SINCE the passing of Elizabeth Windsor the country has been subjected to what can only be described as a tirade of patriotism and jingoism.
Central to this period is the notion that one can only protest against the existence of the monarchy and the desire for a socialist republic at what are deemed to be appropriate times and in ways that are considered respectful and, indeed, respectable.
Of course, many brave people have chosen to ignore the police and population-enforced restrictions.
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