Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
‘It’s not about going back to business as usual, but about building back better’
MAGS HALL, Scottish Greens candidate for Cowdenbeath, tells Niall Christie about her political vision for the constituency
LEFT HIGH AND DRY: BiFab workers march in protest to the Scottish Parliament
CEREN SAGIR reports from the CND fringe meeting during the Labour conference, where speakers slammed a system where £99 billion nuclear arsenal replacement costs are ring-fenced while the two-child benefit cap remains
CND’s Stop the Nuclear Nightmare conference in Glasgow will be an important step towards destroying the false arguments that weapons and war spending will lead to job creation and prosperity, rather than bringing Armageddon closer, writes SIMON BARROW
KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP writes that it is time not just to adopt policies that will revitalise the lives of workers, but speak honestly and openly about whose side we are on and who the Labour Party is for: the millions, not the millionaires
All the areas that cause working people to feel insecure have to be addressed, through a return to unashamedly pro-worker politics, if the horror of a Farage government is to be avoided, writes IAN LAVERY MP
“IT DEFINITELY feels like there is a momentum with us,” Mags Hall tells the Star with little over two weeks left until election day. A lead candidate in Mid Scotland and Fife, the proud Fifer is extremely positive about the prospects for the Scottish Greens.
Born and brought up in Kincardine, Hall did what she describes as the “usual thing” in areas like Fife — left to go to university and spent some time travelling before returning in 2010. As well as working for the Scottish Greens at Holyrood, the 36-year-old is now a prominent voice within the party itself, co-chairing its governing council and acting as the Greens’ policy lead on food and agriculture.
But despite having only joined the party after the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, previously being rooted in community and environmental activism, she is by no means a newcomer to electoral politics.
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