RMT leader Eddie Dempsey's stark warning shook up a fringe meeting at the Scottish TUC
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Did anyone have ‘the return of child labour’ down for 2025?
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
BACK TO THE DARK AGES: A child mill worker in the US, 1908
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
IN the chancelleries of the world, all the talk is of a return to the 1930s, when tariffs and war preparations walked hand-in-hand.
US monopoly capitalism is more ambitious. In terms of the exploitation of labour, it is going back all the way to the 19th century.
Lift the lid on the high drama of the moment, and the dull rhythms of capital accumulation are still grinding away — grinding ever finer in fact.
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