Andy Hogg says while the experience in Scotland has been different there is still the need for basic rights There are few unions that understand more the impact of losing the right to strike than the POA. There are, perhaps, even fewer who can point to the chasm of disadvantage that persists in an industrial […]
Stephen Smellie lay out the critical questions the left needs to be asking of the independence option A second independence referendum will take place. Maybe not this year or even next but it will take place. With current opinion polls now giving independence a small majority, there is a strong possibility that the referendum will […]
Kenny MacAskill offers a welcoming hand to those now seeing independence as a credible option Boris Johnson’s rejection of a Section 30 Order was hardly unexpected and the First Minister never possessed a Plan B as some hoped. So where now for the independence left? In many ways, rather than being seen as a set-back, […]
Jim Sillars says independence supporters are woefully under-prepared for a federated frontal-assault Nicola Sturgeon has taken those in the independence movement into a mental and emotional trench. I had hoped they would clamber out of the trench when her speech on 31 January 2020 indicated acceptance of reality – no indyref2 this year. But they […]
Alex Rowley explains why Scottish Labour supports a revised devolution settlement Scotland remains divided on the question of independence, but on the question of holding a second referendum anytime soon, polls have shown a consistent and overwhelming majority saying now is not the time. The Scottish Labour Party recognises the sovereign right of the Scottish […]
Stuart Graham lays out what needs to be done in the unions in the run up to the November conference The lack of urgency among unions about the climate crisis is concerning. In mid-February, after a fortnight of yellow/amber weather warnings causing widespread damage and flooding, increasingly what is happening on the news is likely […]
Gaza (2019), directors: Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell Reviewed by Jackie Bergson The 25km by 7km Gaza ‘strip’ represents one of the worst conflicted places on earth. It is globally renowned for its political and religious unrest and its consequent, war-torn existence. In our own lifetimes, news broadcasts have informed us about its 1967 occupation […]
Philip Taylor and Sian Moore with Robert Byford, Cabin Crew Conflict –The British Airways Dispute 2009-11, Pluto Press, 2019, pp224, £20.00, 9780745339917 Reviewed by Dave Sherry This book is about one of the bitterest industrial disputes in recent times. In 2009, cabin crew, members of British Airways Stewards and Stewardesses Association (BASSA), part of Unite, […]
Early March 2020, Australia. We are now in the third month of the year of 2020, and it is fairly safe to say that the world is probably in a worse state than it was twelve months ago. Despite this, I keep hearing the same pedantic argument about whether 2020 marks the start of a […]
Regroup and resist – but how? Well, the polls were stunningly accurate so we well and truly had our ‘Friday the thirteenth’. Welcome, readers, subscribers and supporters then to an unhappy New Year. We’ll all need 2020 vision to get through this year and the next ones because it’s all too glib to say all […]