RMT leader Eddie Dempsey's stark warning shook up a fringe meeting at the Scottish TUC
The Tories’ ‘hostile environment’ is not new
Although racist government policies have hit spotlight recently, they’ve been a long time in the making, says PAUL DONOVAN
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
ANTI-MIGRANT policies that led to the Windrush debacle have been developing in the shadows of the Home Office for two decades.
The recent scandal that has seen members of the Windrush generation being deported after many years of working here rightly caused outrage.
The concern, though, is that this occurrence is being viewed as an aberration, not part of a bigger picture.
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