Republic explains the facts behind the lies and statistics. UK tourism is a major part of the UK economy, worth around £127bn a year. UK residents traveling within the UK and visitors from overseas spend billions on hotel bookings, visitor attractions, restaurants, theatre tickets etc. Overseas visitors alone add £28.4bn to the British economy. There […]
Pat Rafferty says workers are winning and on the march again. The last two years have demonstrated who really matters in our society – and it’s not the rich and powerful. It’s cleaners, carers, paramedics, nurses, supermarket workers, cleansing workers, taxi and bus drivers, delivery workers, teachers and school support staff, and postal workers – […]
Mary Senior reports on the on-going battle in universities for pay and pension justice. This summer of unrest, strikes and union ballots is par for the course for the University and College Union (UCU), given our members in universities have been fighting back against punitive pension cuts, stagnating pay and inequality for some years. In […]
Katie Gallogly-Nelson lays out what a just transition must mean to the wider array of workers. While the temperature is projected to increase by only decimals of a degree, global warming’s impacts are already catastrophic and irreversible, wiping out ecosystems, communities and ways of life. While many of us in Scotland imagine these impacts to […]
Stephen Smellie argues we cannot contemplate backtracking on fighting the climate crisis. In the current cost-of-living crisis, it is to be expected that unions, and their members, will be distracted from focusing on last year’s big issue – climate change – as they struggle to negotiate pay deals that at least keep inflation in sight. […]
Stephen Low recommends that the Scottish Government rips it up and starts again. The Scottish Government has broken new ground with the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill. Never in the field of parliamentary scrutiny has a piece of legislation been so panned by so many so completely. The Bill was published by Humza Yousaf, Cabinet […]
Chris Yuill says the solutions to the health inequalities that still stalk Scotland lie in economic and social change. Walk across the Wellington Suspension Bridge over the River Dee in Aberdeen from Torry to Ferryhill and something worrying happens. Average life expectancy drops by about ten years for men and just under six for women. […]
Nick MacWilliam reports on the abuse of human rights in Colombia and the prospects for change. In April 2021, Colombians launched the largest protests the country had seen in decades. Led by unions, social movements and students, the so-called ‘National Strike’ mobilisations grouped together a litany of mass grievances with the hard-right government of President […]
Alf Baird tells a woeful tale of incompetence, arrogance and worse on the high and low seas. [Manichaeism is a religion which believes there is a struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness where light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the […]
David McKinstry casts his poetic eye across the decades of the Elizabeth II’s ‘reign’ over us. The 1980s were covered by him in his poems in Issue 123 (May/June 2021), the 2010s in ‘The Brexit Boat’ published in Issue 131 (Sept/Oct 2022) and the 2020s were also covered in Issue 125 (Sept/Oct 2021) and in […]