From Sharpeville to Gaza: the international fight against racism ADRIAN LEE reports on the annual Anti-Racism Day event held by the Liberation Movement, an anti-racist campaigning group founded in 2021
Thursday 18th Apr 2024 Artificial Intelligence and the threat to workers’ rights TONY BURKE looks at the issues that have led to the TUC’s special taskforce on AI and the concerns of organised workers in the sectors that are already being affected by this powerful new technology
Thursday 18th Apr 2024 STUC Congress 2024 How can unions maximise wins from Britain's next government? Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from Scottish TUC fringe meetings that discussed union priorities and strategies to influence the course of the next government
Thursday 18th Apr 2024 Communist elected leader of the lower house in Chile Karol Cariola becomes the first Communist Party member to be elected president of Chile’s chamber of deputies, a major defeat for the right, reports EL SIGLO
Thursday 18th Apr 2024 The tragedy of a toothless UN What is so galling about this body that has the potential to deliver global justice on a fairly egalitarian basis, is that it generally identifies what should be done — then cannot do it because the US is all-powerful, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 18th Apr 2024 Our social security system needs to be radically reformed Instead of raising universal credit and funding its administration, the government has chosen once again to make things worse for the most vulnerable — it’s time to fight back, writes MARTIN CAVANAGH
Wednesday 17th Apr 2024 The double standards of the West are on full display at the ICJ SEVIM DAGDELEN writes that the response of Germany to Nicaragua’s charges of aiding and abetting genocide in Gaza has been to downplay its role in supplying arms and question the premise that genocide is already taking place
Wednesday 17th Apr 2024 Eyes Left Signs point to world war: what next? The rising price of gold is a good indicator that, despite the protestations of Western leaders, we are heading towards a bigger, wider war. Closing our eyes and focusing on domestic issues is not an option, warns ANDREW MURRAY
Wednesday 17th Apr 2024 STUC Congress 2024 Labour MSPs hail 'landmark' congress After Congress backed action issues from austerity to a just transition, and defeating resurgent fascist networks, West of Scotland MSP KATY CLARK and her South of Scotland colleague CAROL MOCHAN offered their takes on the 127th Scottish Trades Union Congress in Dundee
Tuesday 16th Apr 2024 Voices of Scotland Canary in the coalmine: trade unions need to wake up to women’s rights Research is confirming the massive rise in anti-women politics across the world, writes HAILEY MAXWELL, and if our unions are to fight back, they will need a radical reformation of their institutional culture
Tuesday 16th Apr 2024 STUC Congress 2024 Care workers need action now Despite several inquiries and reviews, conditions for social care workers in Scotland are stagnating instead of improving — we need state intervention to deliver the long overdue improvements, writes LILIAN MACER