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Philip StottFebruary 20, 2020

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Trade unions – new decade, new challenges

Rob Williams, Socialist Party England and Wales industrial organiser After the general election, the unions and their members are facing…

Philip StottFebruary 18, 2020

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No cuts council budgets can end the new wave of austerity

Jim McFarlane, Dundee City Unison secretary and Unison NEC member (personal capacity) Boris Johnson and his billionaires’ government claim austerity is…

Philip StottFebruary 12, 2020

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Ireland: Surge to Sinn Féin as working-class anger defeats the establishment

Fiona O’Loughlin, CWI Ireland The general election in Ireland saw a seismic change in the electoral landscape, with a big…

Philip StottFebruary 12, 2020

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Coronavirus outbreak exposes capitalism’s failures

Steve Score, Socialist Party England and Wales Tragedies like the deaths from novel coronavirus, over 400 at the time of…

Philip StottFebruary 11, 2020

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SNP’s broken promise leaves students drowning in debt

Lucas Smith Grant - Aberdeen Socialist Students The 2007 manifesto pledge made by the SNP to scrap student loan debt,…

Philip StottFebruary 5, 2020

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COP26: Build mass protests and fight for socialist change to end climate change

Matt Dobson reports The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, is to take place in Glasgow in November. This conference…

Philip StottFebruary 3, 2020

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Scotland’s biggest trade union backs the right to indyref2

By Jim McFarlane, Unison NEC member and Dundee Unison secretary (personal capacity) The decision of UNISON Scotland’s Council meeting to…

Philip StottJanuary 31, 2020

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Nicola Sturgeon’s speech shows SNP incapable of leading a struggle for indyref2

Socialist Party Scotland statement SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon’s speech today will have dismayed large numbers of independence supporters in Scotland.…