Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba
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The SNP and Scottish Greens are co-operating — to break their promises and betray those who voted for them
Only Scottish Labour can lead the charge for socialist policies that create green jobs, develop a green industrial base and deliver a just transition to a post-carbon future, argues MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (centre) welcoming Scottish Green co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater at Bute House
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
But the beneath the racism and misogyny of the far right lies a shared grievance with the left — Starmer’s complete betrayal of working people, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
Lucy Powell may not exactly be the left’s choice, but her bid for the deputy leadership is certainly not the Labour right’s choice — and if she wins, that could mean the ascendancy of Andy Burnham and the end of Keir Starmer, writes VINCE MILLS
WHEN I was elected to the Scottish Parliament earlier this year, I was under no illusion that it would not be an uphill struggle to push beyond the empty platitudes common in Holyrood and bring about real change.
After all, this is a parliament which has been increasingly defined by complacency in the face of rising levels of inequality, the increasing concentration of economic power in the hands of a few and an escalating climate emergency.
So I understand why many voters viewed the decision of the Scottish Greens to enter a co-operation agreement with the SNP as a chance to shake the Parliament out of its complacency and start to deliver the transformative changes which we desperately need.
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Attempts to mystify the workings of the economy in a neoliberal smog are failing — the British public is calling out for an interventionist approach under direct state control, writes MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP
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