ALEX HALL interviews PAUL HOLDEN, whose bombshell book uses leaked documents to expose how the Starmer faction used systematic dishonesty to seize power and reopen the door to the corrupting ecosystem of corporate lobbying and sleaze
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Scotland needs a government that will work with the trade union movement for change, not simply blaming Westminster for problems we have the powers to solve, argues NEIL FINDLAY
Rosa Gatta and daughter Millie Sordillo has a picture taken with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after he spoke to party members in the Red Lion, Winsford while on the local election campaign trail, yesterday
The recent calls to strip Michelle Mone of her peerage after she was caught scamming the public for £122 million should reinvigorate the longstanding progressive demand to completely abolish the entire undemocratic, corrupt relic, writes ELLIOT TONG
As gold hits $4,000 per ounce, soaring from only $250 back in 2001, the US national debt has reached $37 trillion — it’s all about to come crashing down, warns JOHN ELLISON, which our leaders would have known had they only studied Marx’s magnum opus Capital
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
THIS year has been one of significant victories for Scotland’s labour movement — the Glasgow equal pay settlement and the teachers’ pay award being the most notable examples.
But it has also been one of industrial setbacks with major body blows to workers at Michelin in Dundee, the Caley railway works at Springburn, HES in Shotts, McGills in Dundee and Kaiam in Livingston.
This is not to mention the year-on-year job losses across the public sector, especially in Scotland’s beleaguered councils. While headline employment figures may paint a rosy picture the reality for many working people is quite different.
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