BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
We must work with the unions to transform Scotland
Scottish Labour refuses to accept we cannot tackle the cost-of-living crisis — the Scottish Parliament has the powers needed now, but we must build a mass movement to force its hand, writes RICHARD LEONARD MSP
BACKING WORKERS: Richard Leonard addresses an RMT demo
against the dismissal of 800 P&O workers in Cairnryan, March 2022
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal
The nation’s leading second-hand socialist bookseller that has been running strong for 33 years is changing hands and expanding its vision — now is the time to get involved, buy, donate and support, writes ANDREW MURRAY
THE Scottish Parliament returns today after its extended summer recess. A long hot summer which has emphatically proved once again that any rumour of the demise of the trade union movement is wide of the mark. Rail workers, journalists, posties, BT staff, engineers and refuse workers have all withdrawn their labour, taken to the streets — and in so doing, won widespread public support.
Taking industrial action in pursuit of fair pay, job security and in defence of conditions is an entirely rational response to the cost-of-living crisis.
Which makes it all the more irrational and frankly unforgivable for some in the political wing of the trade union movement to opt for a pale neutrality in the face of this. As Robert Tressell presciently wrote, “There is no such thing as being neutral: we must either help or hinder.”
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