The Basic Principle of Community Organising
With so many workers outside the protection and power of collectives, unions need to respond, writes Roz Foyer, STUC General Secretary.
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The Equal Right to be Seasick
Dylan Brewerton-Harper talks to Janice McGarry about joining Glasgow’s shipyards, her trail-blazing career, and her battle with - and victory over - a sexist and harassing boss.
What Did we Win in the General Strike?
100 years since the General Strike, Amber Ward reviews books by David Torrance, The Edge of Revolution (Bloomsbury, 2026) and Callum Cant and Matthew Lee, The Future in Our Past: The General Strike, 1926/2026 (Verso, 2026).
The Old Red Thistle Quest
A History of the Scottish Labour Party, by David Torrance (Edinburgh University Press, 2026) reminds us that Labour's woes in Scotland run deep through its history, finds Finn Smyth.
Freedom and Guilt in Ireland and Scotland
The Union Theatre Company delivers a thought-provoking debut in their production of Shall Roger Casement Hang? at the Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh, finds Allie Kerper.
What is going wrong with education?
More school democracy and student agency must be part of the solution, write Brian Boyd and Henry Maitles.
Double Rainbows Above the Court
A short story by Ngan Nguyen.
Torry shows we have made no progress on environmental justice
'A Play for Torry' tells of how they paved paradise and put up an incinerator, a landfill site and not even a parking lot, writes Peter McColl.
Fire Fire, Fire Fire!
Ian Mcregor of the Fire Brigades Union and Phil Chetwynd lay bare the hazards faced by our firefighters in a dangerous changing climate.
The Little Book of Stars
The Little Book of Stars was a book about astronomy which was used in schools in Afghanistan before the Taliban took over.