STUC Archives - RADICAL SCOTTISH POLITICAL WRITING

We’ve Overcome the Mythical Separation Between Workers and Public

17th April 20233rd May 20231 month ago SLR 4 min read

Roz Foyer explains why the season of strikes has brought the public into closer connection with the battles of our unions.

On the road of relative decline? Two books on Scotland’s economic prospects

17th April 20239th May 20231 month ago SLR 9 min read

Mike Danson reviews two books on Scotland’s economic prospects: After Brexit. The Economics of Scottish Independence, by Gavin McCrone (Edinburgh: Birlinn,

On a white background and in the centre 'Mon the Workers' and around it are the hands of workers in bright colours holding the tools of their trade with confetti fluttering around.

Book Review

15th November 202215th November 20226 months ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read

’Mon the Workers’. Celebrating 125 Years of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, ed. Daniel Gray with photography by Alan McCredie, Luath

Profiting from care – Why Scotland cannot afford privatised social care

13th September 202213th September 20229 months ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read

Francis Stuart details the case for public, not-for-profit care following the publication of the STUC’s ground-breaking report Scotland’s large private social

Over 6,750 migrant worker deaths – it’s no beautiful game when played like this

13th September 202221st September 20229 months ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read

John Dennis explains the STUC’s call for action in Scotland against the needless deaths of migrant workers building the World Cup

Whither the Scottish left?

13th July 202213th July 202211 months ago Scottish Left Review 9 min read

George Kerevan surveys the scene, suggesting the SNP’s dominance results from a lack of choices. How often have you heard someone

Editorial

14th March 202214th March 20221 year ago Scottish Left Review 9 min read

The hope of humanity? There is a relatively well-known saying on the left that ‘the cause of labour is the hope

Their Just Transition and our Just Transition

8th September 20218th September 20212 years ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read

Dave Moxham says it’s not so much the devil is in the detail but the visions are quite different. Up until

Editorial:The fight for a Scotland we want.

8th March 20218th March 20212 years ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read

This issue is our traditional STUC congress themed issue. In it, and in addition to hearing from the STUC itself, we

Building back better: Fairer and greener for people not profit

8th March 20218th March 20212 years ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read

Roz Foyer outlines the STUC agenda for the coming period and how it is working to gain these goals. Across Scotland

After the acclaim, the rightful pay claim for our key workers

12th January 202112th January 20212 years ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read

Roz Foyer ask whether the Scottish Government will pass or fail the test of paying up. Since the first lockdown, we’ve

The struggle for Scotland: from marching to movement for the moment at hand

12th January 202112th January 20212 years ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read

Keir McKechnie reports on how AUOB is changing not just to meet the times but to shape them too. Support for

The People’s Recovery: A different track for Scotland’s economy

9th November 20209th November 20203 years ago Scottish Left Review 9 min read

Roz Foyer introduces the Scottish Trades Union Congress’s response to the COVID calamity. We face the biggest economic crisis in living

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Fighting for fairness in COVID-19 crisis: workers and unions provide the sensible solution

2nd July 20202nd July 20203 years ago Scottish Left Review 9 min read

Roz Foyer reports on what’s been happening in Scotland’s workplaces The STUC supports the Fair Work Convention’s vision that by 2025

Bringing up the Bairns O’ Adam – the STUC, Scotland and social justice

9th May 20209th May 20203 years ago Scottish Left Review 6 min read

Grahame Smith reflects on some tumultuous times as he bows out from leading the STUC Writing a reflection on over thirty-four

Unions work: planning for growth to tackle pressing problems

24th March 202024th March 20203 years ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read

It won’t be ‘business as usual’ as Rozanne Foyer leads the STUC to get its ‘business’ done I begin my role

Independence, yes, but for whom and from what?

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read

Grahame Smith says resolving constitutional matters can unlock progress on social and economic issues After such a momentous election result, almost

Where now for Corbyn on Brexit?

15th July 201916th July 20194 years ago SLR 4 min read

George Reid wonders whether Corbyn is hamstrung by his attachment to the ‘left analysis’ of the EU ‘Blimey, that was us!’

Building democracy for the next 20 years

20th May 20194 years ago SLR 4 min read

Grahame Smith argues the Parliament has made a good start but has unfinished business. In his iconic speech at the formal

Let’s have a just transition for public service workers too

18th March 201918th March 20194 years ago SLR 4 min read

Whether by design or default, Lynn Henderson calls for redistribution of the digital dividends Automation, digitalisation and data are the labour

Just Transitioning – marrying environment protection and social justice

14th January 20194 years ago SLR 8 min read

Stephen Smellie lays out what is meant by Just Transition and what role unions have to play. The concept of the

Just Equitable Inclusive Transition

Greening economics and politics with social justice

14th January 20194 years ago SLR 8 min read

Francis Stuart argues unions are central to creating the Just Transition At STUC’s most recent annual congress, a number of resolutions