RMT leader Eddie Dempsey's stark warning shook up a fringe meeting at the Scottish TUC
The Tories will abandon neoliberalism, but only to destroy the working class
With two avowedly Thatcherite figures in the Tory leadership race, JAMES MEADWAY looks at what Margaret Thatcher was prepared to do to beat the miners — and what her descendants may do to beat us
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
THE two remaining Tory leadership candidates have both laid claim to Margaret Thatcher’s memory. Both claim to hold to the same beliefs and values as the Tories’ great hero. But far more important than her purported beliefs are her actions in office.
Rishi Sunak started the campaign presenting himself as a version of “Thatcher the grocer’s daughter,” talking up how he learned the value of money and the importance of balancing the books from his pharmacist parents.
Liz Truss meanwhile, has been offering “Thatcher the crusader,” deliberately aping Thatcher at her most combative — even literally posing in a tank — and promising a war on the high taxes and red tape that are supposedly holding Britain back.
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