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Issue 116 Editorial

Working out where we go from here The outcome of the general election last year means Scotland enters yet another[…]

Unions work: planning for growth to tackle pressing problems

It won’t be ‘business as usual’ as Rozanne Foyer leads the STUC to get its ‘business’ done I begin my[…]

Unions: first, last and best line of defence

Mike Kirby surveys the terrain on which the battle to defend public services and their workers will be fought The[…]

Unions defending workers’ jobs and their communities: doing what it says on the tin

Pat Rafferty lays out what governments can do but only if they are pushed to do so Scotland is being[…]

Making sure ‘education, education, education’ still means ‘education, education, education’

Larry Flanagan lifts the lid on how the EIS is defending teacher, lecturers and education As a Scottish education union,[…]

Stopping shopworkers from being the poor relations

Stewart Forrest outlines what Usdaw is doing to fight the jobs and violence crisis in retail Usdaw is one of[…]

Comrades, come rally – the cuts are Cumming

Cat Boyd shows how the PCS union is preparing to fight further austerity Austerity has done more to reshape Britain[…]

Unions must lead the fight back

Denise Christie shows how the FBU is fighting back and calls for coordinated action to support sister unions There have[…]

4f + 1f = 5f (where ‘f’ stands for FIGHT)

Mary Senior does the maths and comes up with the right answers in the fight for fair pay and pensions[…]

Minimum service levels – defend the right to strike

Mick Cash lays out the reasons for the Tories’ new assault on striking and how to beat it In the[…]

Protect the right to strike and enshrined it in law

Andy Hogg says while the experience in Scotland has been different there is still the need for basic rights There[…]

Can independence be built on trade union principles?

Stephen Smellie lay out the critical questions the left needs to be asking of the independence option A second independence[…]

So where now for the independence left?

Kenny MacAskill offers a welcoming hand to those now seeing independence as a credible option Boris Johnson’s rejection of a[…]

Is Scotland ready for its federated future to infinity and beyond?

Jim Sillars says independence supporters are woefully under-prepared for a federated frontal-assault Nicola Sturgeon has taken those in the independence[…]

Home rule for the new century

Alex Rowley explains why Scottish Labour supports a revised devolution settlement Scotland remains divided on the question of independence, but[…]

Challenging the climate crisis and COP26: getting ready for Glasgow

Stuart Graham lays out what needs to be done in the unions in the run up to the November conference[…]

Film Review

Gaza (2019), directors: Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell Reviewed by Jackie Bergson The 25km by 7km Gaza ‘strip’ represents one[…]

Book Review

Philip Taylor and Sian Moore with Robert Byford, Cabin Crew Conflict –The British Airways Dispute 2009-11, Pluto Press, 2019, pp224,[…]

VLADIMIR McTAVISH’S ‘A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS’

Early March 2020, Australia. We are now in the third month of the year of 2020, and it is fairly[…]