TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
Fund our public services – campaign for peace
For the sake of our futures, trade unionists must make the link between austerity at home and never-ending war abroad, writes MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS
YOUTH PRIORITY: School and university students takes part in a School Strike for Palestine walkout in George Square, Glasgow
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
AS A young person in Britain, the future may seem bleak. The job market is more and more precarious, there is an ongoing housing crisis and the cost of living is still on the rise and it is young people who bear the brunt of this.
At the same time, our public services are being completely decimated. As a representative of all young workers in Unison, Britain’s largest public services union, our members are overworked, their workplaces understaffed and they are underpaid.
Under the current system, young people are offered nothing more than a world that is embroiled in open war which is leading to further deaths, destruction, displacement and the danger of increased conflict. The ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza has seen thousands of children and young people killed.
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Unison has consistently opposed the apartheid system in occupied Palestine, and is now leading the call to end the British state’s military support for Israel as the massacre in Gaza continues, writes MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS
