Hospitality: Hope of the Movement
The union movement must do everything to prevent the risk of a rift between declining organised sectors and workers in the ever growing service sector, urges Yana Petticrew.
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Observations on Gig Worker Organising
As platform companies try to force a race to the bottom, Xabier Villares reviews gig workers’ tactics for organising in Scotland and around the world.
Behind the Crisis at Dundee University
Angela Daly describes the role of unions in responding to the recent fiasco at the University of Dundee, and their power to shape alternative systems of university governance.
The Legacy of Pandemic Politics in Scotland
It is time that Scotland's social movements learned lessons from Covid about crisis preparation and governance, urges Ewan Kerr.
Time for a Democratic Economy
The recent Scotonomics conference debated a different kind of economy where money, energy and industry are at the service of the people, report Maggie Chapman and Peter McColl.
Scotland needs a Working-Class Left Alternative
A range of organisations and individuals have come together to advocate for Left alliances in time for the 2026 Scottish elections.
Cuba’s Cultural Resistance
Calum Baird, the only Scottish artist to perform at the 2024 Havan Biennial in Cuba, sits down with Coll McCail to discuss Cuba's cultural resistance.
Building on the New Deal
Parts of Labour’s programme will help unions to grow, but only hard work will build the class unity that can defeat the far right, writes STUC General Secretary Roz Foyer.
Picking Without Freedom: The Struggle of Seasonal Workers
Kevin, a seasonal agricultural worker from Uzbekistan, and Caroline Robinson of the Workers' Support Centre, are pioneering a new model for building workers' power.
Pioneers of the Burkinabé Revolution
Nirad Abrol explores the character of the education that is central to the revolution in Burkina Faso.