Devolution under pressure as Reform targets Holyrood ON MAY 8, the Scottish Parliament is set to look markedly different. Alongside the familiar party colours that symbolise the Scottish political Establishment will arrive Reform UK as the supposedly in...

Devolution under pressure as Reform targets Holyrood - Rising discontent is fuelling Reform UK’s advance ahead of crucial polls next month, but behind the insurgent branding lies an agenda of more cuts and austerity, says RUBY GIBSON
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No more cuts, no more excuses ARRIVING in Dundee for the STUC in the midst of war and a world currently led by tyrants, a timid and tepid Scottish election, the rise and attempted normalisation of far-right politics and racism, no...

No more cuts, no more excuses - The labour movement must challenge the endless austerity narrative — and Unity Consulting will play its part to complement the work already being done by trade unions
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Why Britain must stop facilitating Trump’s war on Iran WITH just two days to go before the end of the US-Iran ceasefire, it is critical that all efforts are focused on securing a diplomatic resolution and stopping military escalation. Britain must follow ...

Why Britain must stop facilitating Trump’s war on Iran - CND and the Stop the War Coalition are calling for a mass protest this Saturday to end British complicity in illegal US strikes at RAF Fairford. SOPHIE BOLT explains
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Wake-up time for a Labour Party haemorrhaging support AS A Labour member, later a councillor, and currently as an MP, I have been consistent in talking about the need for the redistribution of wealth in society.Since 2010, we have seen a very unholy trin...

Wake-up time for a Labour Party haemorrhaging support - Labour government must urgently start to implement the policies on which it got elected, or it will face curtains, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
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Crisis point reached in Scottish prisons LAST autumn at the POA Scotland’s conference in Peebles, my union launched the Crisis Point Reached report, an in-depth examination of the pressures facing Scotland’s prison officers.The report was co...

Crisis point reached in Scottish prisons - A major new report highlights the the dire state of our prison system – and demands urgent action from government, explains PHIL FAIRLIE
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Time to back Scotland’s artists with a guaranteed income EQUITY has called for a Scottish basic income for artists, and it seems Holyrood candidates are on board, with both Scottish Labour and the SNP backing versions of our call.Now it’s time for all parti...

Time to back Scotland’s artists with a guaranteed income - Inspired by Ireland’s success, Equity urges all parties to support a basic income for artists that could unlock talent and boost the economy, says MARLENE CURRAN
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With unity we can become a force that cannot be ignored SCOTLAND’S trade union movement has always understood a simple truth: progress does not arrive by accident.It’s won by workers. Each year, at STUC Congress, working people from across the country come...

With unity we can become a force that cannot be ignored - As the STUC gathers in an election year, the message to politicians is clear – continuing managed decline is unacceptable to Scotland’s workers, says ROZ FOYER
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Scotland’s firefighters showed their worth in Glasgow. Now politicians must show theirs IT HAS been a little more than a month since people across Scotland watched, with worry and admiration, as firefighters battled the major blaze at the five-storey listed building on Union Street in Gl...

Scotland’s firefighters showed their worth in Glasgow. Now politicians must show theirs - A recent Union Street blaze showed firefighters at their best, but years of underfunding and job losses are stretching the service to its limits, writes JOHN McKENZIE
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Great British Railways must deliver more than warm words RAIL workers in Scotland are dealing with rising levels of abuse, fewer staff on the ground and a strained and fragmented system.As the Scottish Trades Union Congress meets, our union, RMT, is backing...

Great British Railways must deliver more than warm words - Concrete proposals are needed to bring about full integration of the rail system, with real protections for workers and an end to private operators, argues EDDIE DEMPSEY
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Strike at the museum WE’LL admit it: our headline is a bit misleading.There are multiple strikes happening across our museums right now.Workers are pushing back against worsening pay and conditions, while senior figures i...

Strike at the museum
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Palestine’s never ending Nakba AS LEADER of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich’s announcement of new measures to increase Israel’s control of the West Bank under their own property law comes as no surprise.Described as “d...

Palestine’s never ending Nakba - Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
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Serco’s hidden role in Ice training BRITISH privatiser Serco has contracts the firm claimed put it at the heart of training officers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). In the wake of Ice agents causing outrage by killing pro...

Serco’s hidden role in Ice training - The British outsourcing giant quietly deleted mention of training US immigration agents after killings in Minneapolis intensified scrutiny of its controversial contracts. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
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Your Party: what kind of socialist party does the British working class actually need in 2026? THERE is a theoretical question at the heart of Your Party’s April 2026 decision on membership eligibility, and it deserves a serious answer — not a bureaucratic one.The question is this: what kind of...

Opinion: Your Party’s new membership rules pose a deeper question about socialist organisation: should a party lead the working class, or be led by it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
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More than expression: why art matters for black liberation CULTURE is a critical part of our weaponry for black liberation and to build a revolution. Having spent last week at the Cultures in Resistance gathering at Wortley Hall near Sheffield, I am even more...

More than expression: why art matters for black liberation - Born from exclusion and resistance, black British art has carved out creative space to tell untold stories and challenge racism, says ROGER McKENZIE
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The state’s attack on the right to protest has a long history THE conviction of Chris Nineham and Ben Jamal on public order charges at Westminster Magistrates’ Court recently has renewed concerns about the state’s attack on the right to protest.The charges relat...

The state’s attack on the right to protest has a long history - KEITH FLETT looks at the state’s efforts to limit protest rights from the 19th century to today’s repression of the Palestine movement
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Reed all about it: can Starmer’s strongman pacify a mutinous people? IT ALL comes down to Steve Reed.The Communities Secretary, unprepossessing and intellectually challenged even by the standards of Starmerite administration, is charged with keeping the lid on mass dis...

Reed all about it: can Starmer’s strongman pacify a mutinous people? - The government has few aces up its sleeve when it comes to managing popular anger, argues ANDREW MURRAY
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The Lebanon Conspiracy: Massacres, Negotiations, and a New Order ISRAEL’S latest war on Lebanon is not only being waged from the air. It is being reinforced politically from within, as Beirut moves in step with US-Israeli efforts to isolate Hezbollah and weaken Ira...

Israel's brutality in Lebanon, combined with efforts to draw the Lebanese government into negotiations, are part of a strategy to delegitimise resistance to occupation and apartheid, argues RAMZY BAROUD
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Is Engels’ The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Human still relevant today? FRIEDRICH ENGELS’S essay on the origins of our species is today recognised as a foundational text, not just of Marxism, but of today’s physical and social anthropology.Like most of Engels’s theoretica...

Engels’ essay on our origins and distinctiveness built on Darwin’s own exploration of human evolution and has provided a framework for exploration and research which has stood the test of time, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
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Beyond slogans: reimagining how we fight the far right I’M GRATEFUL to the Morning Star for encouraging me and others to challenge left orthodoxies and ways of campaigning that have become so ingrained that sometimes we seem to be on rails, rather than qu...

Beyond slogans: reimagining how we fight the far right - The Morning Star publishes the speech by writer and editor JULIA BARD of the Jewish Socialists’ Group given at the paper’s annual conference at the weekend
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Insider trading on Iran takes war profiteering to a new level - A surge in futures activity minutes before news of US–Iran talks has led to questions about insider trading and oversight gaps, writes CJ ATKINS
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War and the global food time bomb - Fertiliser chaos triggered by Gulf conflict could send prices soaring and leave millions facing devastating hunger, writes DYLAN MURPHY
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Glasgow, city of closure DESIGNATED Europe’s first City of Culture in 1990, Glasgow has become a global exporter of art, music and literature. The city is littered with venues, galleries, museums, theatres, and clubs that not...

Glasgow, city of closure - In Voices of Scotland YANA PETTICREW looks at the crippling deterioration of working-class art provision and support
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Neither forgetting nor forgiving EVERY March 24, Argentinians take to the streets to remember the victims of the last, and most vicious, dictatorship in the country’s turbulent history.

Neither forgetting nor forgiving - Argentinians commemorated the 50th anniversary of the military dictatorship that left 30,000 people killed or ‘disappeared.’ BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
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No liberation in bombs: Iran’s people face ruin amid escalating US aggression HAVING reduced Gaza and the long-suffering Palestinian people to a state of ruin and desolation, the US-Israeli axis of destruction has now turned its ruinous gaze and intent towards Iran — with Donal...

No liberation in bombs: Iran’s people face ruin amid escalating US aggression - With attacks on industry, healthcare and education intensifying, JAMSHID AHMADI warns of a deliberate drive to cripple Iran and calls for urgent global action
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Making London councils allies in the campaign to oppose Britain’s nuclear expansion LONDON Region CND has launched a campaign to make London nuclear weapon-free. There are compelling reasons for local council candidates to oppose the expansion of Britain’s nuclear weapons by promisin...

As weapons return to Suffolk and defence spending soars, London CND is pressing local candidates to oppose nuclear expansion and support the UN ban treaty. SALLY SPIERS explains
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Settler colonialism and the architecture of annihilation THERE is a structure at work. Not a war. Not a conflict. A structure. Patrick Wolfe, the scholar who defined settler colonialism for the modern era, gave us its engine in one sentence: “Settler coloni...

Settler colonialism and the architecture of annihilation - The language of war obscures what genocide scholars describe as a sustained project of erasure, enabled by global power, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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When Scotland rose for democracy: the untold story of 1820 AS WITH so much of our radical history, the 1820 Rising’s shamefully little known in Scotland, and even less so in England.Yet it was the last armed insurrection on mainland Britain, the final use of ...

In the year following Peterloo a mass strike erupted into armed revolt as Scotland’s workers demanded their rights, yet this uprising remains largely absent from popular history, writes KENNY MacASKILL
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Artificial Intelligence — a threat to jobs, or humanity itself? AI HAS been around for a number of years, but wasn’t necessarily visible, hiding behind supposed “live” chats on websites, etc. Then, about three years ago, Chat GPT was announced and responses were d...

Artificial Intelligence — a threat to jobs, or humanity itself? - MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
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A society that fails its teachers fails its children AS TEACHERS from across the UK gather in Birmingham today for the NASUWT annual conference, they do so at a moment when our education system is being pushed beyond its limits.Years of underfunding, ri...

A society that fails its teachers fails its children - Schools are at breaking point, argues NASUWT general secretary MATT WRACK — we urgently need investment in our kids’ futures
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The Debbonaire deal: how corporate sinecures keep Labour wedded to the right THE Green victory  in the Gorton and Denton by-election shows Labour risk  losing millions of votes to their left.Lots of Labour members and voters think the obvious response would be  ...

The Debbonaire deal: how corporate sinecures keep Labour wedded to the right - SOLOMON HUGHES says even electoral defeat isn’t a deterrent to right-wing MPs: pro-corporate policies might lose elections but they can be lucrative nonetheless
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