Protecting the most vulnerable… Tory style
by Sandra Webster • The mantra of the caring, sharing Tory party is “We will protect the most vulnerable.” It was banged out during the last general election campaign ...
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50 years after the Abortion Act – what now?
by Jenni Gunn • 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Abortion Rights Act—making abortion legal and free on the National Health Service. The passing of the Act was a ...
New Voice Forum on Scottish independence
Register here for free tickets for the latest Voice Forum, ‘More than Brexit: the progressive case for independence’, Saturday 11 March in ...
Dismantling Westminster is key to socialist advance
by John McAllion, former Labour MP and MSP, now in the SSP • Most voters do not pay close attention to the detail of day to day parliamentary politics. The extent to which ...
Climate change deniers can expect tough challenges
by Roz Paterson • Global temperatures in 2017 will, probably, not exceed those of 2016. That’s the good news. In full. Happy new year. Last year and the year before broke ...
Trump, the US election and what lies ahead
by Robert W McChesney, in the United States • For the past eight weeks, almost everyone on the American left—or to use the vernacular, the progressive community—has ...
Tackling climate change can create jobs
Roz Paterson looks at a trade union-based plan • It’s not often you read a booklet about climate change and actually feel like whooping with excitement at its vision of ...
Real action is necessary to challenge workplace sexism
by Jenni Gunn • The political, economic and social position of women in Scotland in 2016 looks markedly different from the way in which it looked for my mother’s ...
The SNP’s named person initiative: storm in a teacup?
by Colin Turbett, author of ‘Doing Radical Social Work’ • If we are going to judge the SNP’s performance in government in Scotland let’s do so on issues that ...
Brexit rocks politics and unleashes multiple crises
EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson • The victory for Brexit in the European referendum has unleashed a multiplicity of crises which poses the greatest threat to Westminster system ...
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