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Trade unionists at the STUC Congress paid tribute yesterday to Nelson Mandela.
South Africa's honorary consul in Scotland Brian Filling regaled delegates with his memories of Mandela.
Mr Filling, a founding member of Scotland's anti-apartheid movement, recalled that when Dundee, Glasgow and Aberdeen had awarded Mandela the freedom of their cities in the early 1980s the newspapers had branded their gesture as consorting with a terrorist.
ANN HENDERSON looks at the centenary of the foundation of the STUC women’s committee, and the challenges facing women in the trade unions today
ARTHUR WEST surveys the achievements of the Scottish campaign against South African apartheid and how we can draw on them to fight a rising far right
NADIA JOSEPH welcomes a survey of the role that TV played in the debate over apartheid and race relations in Britain
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10