FAST FOOD strikes offer a ray of hope to unions in engaging with young workers, speakers at a Morning Star conference said yesterday.
Delegates at the Scotland’s Youth conference heard that walkouts at McDonald’s, TGI Friday’s, UberEats and Wetherspoon’s were a sign that precarious workers can fight back.
Labour National Policy Forum member Caitlin Kane said that last week’s co-ordinated action marked an end to the “period of the political centre, when you couldn’t tell the difference between the two [main] parties.”
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE
Why not pay a visit to Feile an Phobail, a people’s festival of community arts with roots in the days of internment without trial, and where the spirit of solidarity remains undimmed, says LYNDA WALKER


