Editorial:The fight for a Scotland we want.
This issue is our traditional STUC congress themed issue. In it, and in addition to hearing from the STUC itself,
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Building back better: Fairer and greener for people not profit
Roz Foyer outlines the STUC agenda for the coming period and how it is working to gain these goals. Across
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Rebooting and rebuilding unions’ fighting capacity
Pat Rafferty sees much opportunity to strengthen union organisation amid the challenges of COVID. The last year has been one
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Neither clapping nor words of acclaim for public servants pay their bills, rent and mortgages
Cat Boyd eyes opportunities to put class before constitution in the coming period. If there’s anything good to say about
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For investment and education-led recovery and restitution
Larry Flanagan does not pull his punches in laying out what the EIS demands of the Scottish Government. Scottish education,
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Firefighting doesn’t require firefighting problems but instead sustained and strategic investment
Denise Christie says our fire and rescue service requires the Scottish Government to make a decision turn. The COVID-19 pandemic
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A year unlike any other: pressure in the prison, correctional and secure psychiatric system
Phil Fairlie says the time for debts to be paid to public service workers has now arrived. Following a year
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Navigating through COVID, Brexit and the Scottish Parliament 2021 elections
Mary Senior surveys the changing landscape to identify the countless challenges in higher education. In unprecedented times, last March the
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Coming out stronger – coming out fighting
Mike Kirby reports that UNISON Scotland is meeting the challenge of organising online. Over the last year, UNISON branches across
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The COVID crisis shows Scotland requires constant connectivity
Craig Anderson shows how the CWU union takes a class position on communication. The COVID pandemic has changed how we
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Making devolution work for workers on injuries and illnesses
Mark Griffin explains the rationale behind his Scottish Employment Injuries Advisory Council Bill. The testimonies I heard from the women
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No touchy Feeley as social care still to be tied to the market
Stephen Smellie says of the Feeley report it’s a case of several steps forward and massive one back. The broken
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Can the Fair Work Framework make Scotland a fair work nation?
Gregor Gall analyses a recent report by the Fair Work Convention and finds it fatally flawed. The ‘Fair Work Framework’
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Weegie climate warriors go to war to green up the dear old ‘Green Place’ of Glasgow
Stuart Graham lays out what union activists in Glasgow are organising for in the run-up to COP26. Glasgow Trades Union
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‘Play it again, Sam’: projecting the prizes and pitfalls for the political parties
Malcolm Harvey assesses the likely outcome that we shall wake up to on 7 May 2021. Elections happen frequently in
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Finding a new ‘third way’ between independence and unionism
Neil Findlay lays out the case for a third option in any future referendum. Tony Benn famously set out five
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Film Review
A Private War (2018), director: Matthew Heineman, screenwriters: Arash Amel and Marie Brenner Reviewed by Jackie Bergson Bridging the period
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Book Review
Judy Cox, Rebellious Daughters of History, 2021, Redwords, 9781912926947, £10, pp128 Reviewed by Lorna McKinnon Where can we look to
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
In Britain, it is now a year since the Coronavirus pandemic reached our shores. And to mark the first anniversary
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