Calling out the deadly dinosaurs amongst our own brothers and sisters
Stephen Smellie argues we cannot contemplate backtracking on fighting the climate crisis. In the current cost-of-living crisis, it is to be
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Stephen Smellie
Book Review
Eileen Turnbull, A Very British Conspiracy – The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice, Verso, 2022, £16.99, pp384, 9781804290149 Reviewed
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Of black clouds and silver linings?
Stephen Smellie argues COP26 delivered on the low expectations of it but progress was made in building a bigger and more
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Uniting for change in UNISON?
Stephen Smellie gives personal reflections on UNISON’s newly elected national leadership. Glaswegian Christina McAnea was elected as general secretary of UNISON,
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No touchy Feeley as social care still to be tied to the market
Stephen Smellie says of the Feeley report it’s a case of several steps forward and massive one back. The broken system
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All change at the top of the big unions?
Stephen Smellie surveys the field and asks whether change at the top will presage change beneath. Over the next 18 months
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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 in
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On the union frontline in a pandemic
Stephen Smellie recounts the pressures and learning curve to become a health and safety expert I am not a frontline care
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Can independence be built on trade union principles?
Stephen Smellie lay out the critical questions the left needs to be asking of the independence option A second independence referendum
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