RMT leader Eddie Dempsey's stark warning shook up a fringe meeting at the Scottish TUC
The Tories are playing a supercharged version of the politics of divide and rule
It’s urgent to build real resistance to this government’s poisonous agenda and develop confidence in the anti-racist movement, says WEYMAN BENNETT
People take part in a protest outside Downing Street in Westminster, London, calling on the Government to scrap the Nationalities and Borders Bill
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
THIS week, two of the most reactionary pieces of legislation to come before the House of Commons since the second world war were being debated.
The Policing Bill and the anti-refugee Nationality and Borders Bill (NBB) were being heard and discussed as the truth emerged about the “party that never was” at Downing Street last Christmas.
While an institutionally racist (and sexist) police force was being given extraordinary new powers to limit protest and attack the rights of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, the Policing Bill also targets Black Lives Matter activists.
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