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Scottish Labour after the Brighton conference
The contrast between Scottish Labour’s radical proposals and the SNP’s ‘business as usual’ agenda could scarcely be greater, writes STEPHEN LOW
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard
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Labour, like the Tories, sees rising mental ill health simply as a spending problem — but it reflects a diseased society, argues DR DAVID MATTHEWS
As Palestine Action prisoners go weeks without food, alleging dangerous neglect and detention without trial, campaigners warn that a near-total media blackout is hiding a crisis that could turn fatal – and fuel a growing wave of public anger. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
As the new party emerges from its founding conference with a bold socialist identity, its future hinges on whether it can provide the organisational clarity needed to turn class sentiment into class power, argues NICK WRIGHT
RICHARD BURGON MP argues the left must build on recent victories and urgently unite around a bold cost-of-living programme
“THE shareholder dividend and the profit motive should never have had any place in our National Health Service. And it should have no place in the delivery of our bus services, in the delivery of our post, no place in our prisons and no place in our asylum system.”
That was Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard’s declaration to Labour’s Brighton conference last month. This statement, as much as any of the policy announcements, shows how different Scottish Labour is from other parties in Holyrood.
Indeed, under Leonard’s leadership, Scottish Labour is not just offering something different in Scottish politics, but something new. A radicalism that has been all but absent in the era of devolution.
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