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With the far right preparing for a ‘Pro UK rally’ in Glasgow in a few days’ time, we must get ready to mobilise, while also recognising that poverty and disaffection are playing their part in this alarming rightward shift, warns VINCE MILLS
Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Stand Up to Racism, in George Square, Glasgow, August 10, 2024
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
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We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
JUST IN CASE there was still any reason to believe that somehow Scotland does not harbour an anti-immigrant and racist right, this last year has demonstrated beyond doubt that such assumptions are very wide of the mark. The evidence has not only come in polling forecasts, and actual votes, but from the streets.
For 58 weeks there was a stand-off outside of Erskine’s Muthu Glasgow River hotel, where around 150 refugees were housed.
As covered faithfully by the Morning Star, members of the right-wing Patriotic Alternative and Homeland Party protesting about the presence of the refugees were faced down by Paisley and District TUC supported by Clydebank TUC, Stand Up to Racism, the local Young Communist League and many other individuals.
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