RMT leader Eddie Dempsey's stark warning shook up a fringe meeting at the Scottish TUC
The importance of knowing our own strength: the anti-war movement and British foreign policy
We must resist the tendency to see our protests for peace as failures if they do not end a specific conflict: looking at the evidence from Vietnam to Iraq, they have had a profound effect on curtailing military aggression, explains IAN SINCLAIR
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
THOUGH considered an abject failure by many, the enormous British anti-war movement against the 2003 Iraq War has had a number of long-lasting impacts on British politics and society.
One unfortunate effect is, nearly 20 years later, the movement’s inability to stop the invasion continues to breed defeatism when it comes to the general public influencing British foreign policy.
For example, discussing the large-scale British protests against the recent Israeli bombardment of Gaza, one Middle East scholar quipped on Twitter, “If history has taught me anything, when people in Britain march against immoral actions in the Middle East, their government will almost certainly ignore them.”
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