Latest editorial
Glasgow Trade Union Education Centre secures two-year partnership after a landmark campaign
City of Glasgow College. Photo: AlasdairW/ Creative Commons
On the 80th anniversary of liberation from Nazi-fascism, left forces in Italy mobilise against genocide, armament, and the Meloni government, reports ANA VRACAR
After a ruinous run at Tolkien, the streaming platforms are moving on to Narnia — a naff mix of religious allegory, colonial attitudes, and thinly veiled prejudices that is beyond rescuing, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
Congress can chart a bold course that will force meaningful transformation for the people of Scotland
Edinburgh can take great pride in an episode of its history where a murderous captain of the city guard was brought to justice by a righteous crowd — and nobody snitched to Westminster in the aftermath, writes MAT COWARD
When privatisation is already so deeply embedded in the NHS, we can’t just blindly argue for ‘more funding’ to solve its problems, explain ESTHER GILES, NICO CSERGO, BRIAN GIBBONS and RATHI GUHADASAN
There are only two things that stand between workers and the musket’s volley today - the ballot and the union, asserts MATT KERR
HAVING spent more than 20 years championing the cause of workplace education, as a tutor at the Glasgow Trade Union Education Centre, I wasn’t completely blind to the task that faced my colleagues and I when the centre was poised for closure by management.
However, as the Scottish trade union movement assembles for this year’s STUC Congress, we will be arriving in Dundee to celebrate a victory for solidarity and effective campaigning, which sees the Glasgow Trade Union Education Centre saved from closure.
Thanks to a landmark multi-year partnership agreement with City of Glasgow College, our centre — an institution that has stood at the heart of Scotland’s labour movement for over 30 years — will continue to offer critical accredited training in employment law, health and safety, collective bargaining and negotiation skills for at least the next two years.
