Failing the test: the calamity of COVID-19 testing in Scotland
Lilian Macer excoriates the Scottish Government’s approach as inadequate to deal with pandemic we are facing. The World Health Organisation
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Keep your 2m distance during the pandemic
Andrew Watterson, Rory O’Neill, Janet Newsham and Hilda Palmer critique the carelessness and incompetence of government policy and practice The
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Pandemic panic of the streets of Dundee, Dunfermline and Dumbarton from cruel continuing cuts
Kate Ramsden argues we must take political advantage of the pandemic to rebuild our local public services Covid-19 has highlighted
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Don’t throw our members under the bus
Pat Rafferty looks at the case of ADL to argue that only government action can secure green jobs and help
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Building back better in the ‘Dear Green Place’ with free buses and trains
Ellie Harrison makes the case for getting Glasgow to go green and free in its transport system September 2020 sees
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How green is the EU recovery plan?
Molly Scott-Cato assesses the pros and cons of efforts in Europe to make a green just transition The mantra ‘Build
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Uniting and fighting – how unemployed workers can be collectively organised
Dave Sherry recounts previous examples of campaigns to mobilise the unemployed as part of a wider labour movement struggle The
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Poems from Lockdown
Culture and creativity during Covid: teaching and learning at home David McKinstry is a teacher – see his biographical details
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Money begets money: how the Tories helped the rich get richer during the COVID-19 crisis
Prem Sikka dissects the Westminster governments series of economic and financial initiatives On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organisation
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Fighting for fairness in COVID-19 crisis: workers and unions provide the sensible solution
Roz Foyer reports on what’s been happening in Scotland’s workplaces The STUC supports the Fair Work Convention’s vision that by
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Crisis within a crisis: the failure of private sector care
Stephen Smellie charts a way out of the crisis in both short- and medium-terms Thousands have died in care homes
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Domestic abuse and COVID-19
Megan Gordon reports that a bad situation is getting worse – so much more funding is needed Imagine that you
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Coronavirus crisis: underfunding, restructuring, privatisation and fragmentation at the heart of the crisis in Holyrood and Westminster
Allyson Pollock and Louisa Harding-Edgar say there is also an opportunity to end the neo-liberalism that got us to this
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COVID 19: government failures counter-balanced by solutions from unions and NGOs
Andrew Watterson says unions must be part of the post-crisis economic and social reconstruction Pandemics cannot be avoided but COVID-19
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From sidelined to significant: how retail workers became key workers in our communities
Stewart Forrest says it should not have taken a crisis to recognise the crucial role of retail workers When the
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Out of crisis, opportunity: economics and the environment
Mags Hall argues that the precedents being set can be used to open up a greener and fairer future There
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Wracked by rent but fighting back against the pandemic penury
Ben Kritikos says a bad situation is getting worse as governments ignore the tenants’ plight The coronavirus pandemic has widened
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After COVID-19, there can be no more ‘business as usual’ for our railways
Mick Cash says though there is ‘clear and present’ danger, we have a political opportunity on our hands It goes
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Issue 116 Editorial
Working out where we go from here The outcome of the general election last year means Scotland enters yet another
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Unions work: planning for growth to tackle pressing problems
It won’t be ‘business as usual’ as Rozanne Foyer leads the STUC to get its ‘business’ done I begin my
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Unions: first, last and best line of defence
Mike Kirby surveys the terrain on which the battle to defend public services and their workers will be fought The
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Unions defending workers’ jobs and their communities: doing what it says on the tin
Pat Rafferty lays out what governments can do but only if they are pushed to do so Scotland is being
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Stopping shopworkers from being the poor relations
Stewart Forrest outlines what Usdaw is doing to fight the jobs and violence crisis in retail Usdaw is one of
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Comrades, come rally – the cuts are Cumming
Cat Boyd shows how the PCS union is preparing to fight further austerity Austerity has done more to reshape Britain
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Unions must lead the fight back
Denise Christie shows how the FBU is fighting back and calls for coordinated action to support sister unions There have
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4f + 1f = 5f (where ‘f’ stands for FIGHT)
Mary Senior does the maths and comes up with the right answers in the fight for fair pay and pensions
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