The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
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Scotland on the breadline
ZOE HENNESSY examines the devastating impact of the austerity agenda in Scotland
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
Claudia Webbe pays tribute tribute to KANYA KING CBE, February 12 1964 to June 3 2026
The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
During the last three decades neoliberalism has triumphed across Scotland and the rest of Britain.
Our trade unions have been repeatedly undermined and humiliated by anti-union legislation and workers have been forced into increasingly low-paid and casual jobs or unemployment.
In the absence of state investment and long-term strategy, Scotland's manufacturing economy has plummeted to less than 12 per cent of GDP.
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