
THE Scottish TUC condemned the SNP government’s plans for a new national care service today, passing a string of motions damning privatised social care.
Congress agreed to fight for social work to be “a public service delivered by the public sector and accountable to democratically elected members of the community.”
Moving a motion attacking “the government’s decision to privatise the design of the NCS by contracting Price Waterhouse Cooper,” Unison delegate Lilian Macer savaged private care providers who with one hand had taken public support and Covid payments “and with the other siphoned it off to the Cayman islands.

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers