WITHIN the first week of the General Election campaign, Keir Starmer told us he was a socialist. Meanwhile, he continued his purge of socialist and left-wing parliamentary candidates from his party ...
THE proportion of workers who were trade union members – called union density – in the UK rose in 2023 to 22.4%, up from 22.2% in 2022.
WIDESPREAD protests by farmers in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain since the end of last year over prices, costs and incomes have shown how direct action can pay dividends.
A LONG, long time ago, Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rolling Stones, sang: “You can’t always get what you want/But if you try sometimes, well, you just might find/You get what you need”. Fast forward
THE National Minimum Wage became a quarter of a century old this month...
TWENTY-FIVE years ago today, on February 21, 1999, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) was founded. It was the bright young hope of the radical left in Scotland with its key aims being socialism and independence.
FIRST Minister Humza Yousaf announced to widespread fanfare and much acclaim in September last year that the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government would include financial support to trial a four-day week in a number of government departments and public bodies.
TODAY marks the centenary of the first Labour government in Britain. It was led by many prominent Scots, such as Ramsay MacDonald, Arthur Henderson, Richard Haldane, Hugh Macmillan, Manny Shinwel, and John Wheatley. Some of them were part of the Red Clydeside radical political eruption after the First World War.
IT is more than 18 months since the undeniable return of unions to public life in the form of the big uptick in strikes that started in the summer of 2022.
LAST weekend, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) called its first special congress since 1982 in order to flesh out its existing position of non-compliance with – and defiance of – the Tories’ Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023.
