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ORDINARY workers offered their unique take on the meaning of May Day to the Morning Star yesterday on a thousand-strong march through Glasgow.
Anne Dean, an NHS community team manager from East Renfrewshire, said she was glad of the opportunity to gather across trade-union lines, an action made all the rarer by restrictive laws outlawing solidarity strikes.
The GMB member, who wore a Scottish Labour pin, said she had been a committed party supporter but the coming year represented a “last chance” for leader Ed Miliband to pledge legislation protecting trade-union freedoms to demonstrate and bargain collectively.
Amid rising hostility and division, the answer to fear and frustration is not isolation but the organised solidarity that built working-class communities, says MATT KERR
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
Campaigns against nuclear weapons on the Clyde, financial backing for arms firms and rising militarism are converging with solidarity for Palestine, as Scotland’s peace movement builds momentum ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election, says ARTHUR WEST
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart