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
Caught in a trap
VINCE MILLS looks at how UK Labour’s backpedalling on policy has left Scottish Labour with nothing to offer its own electorate
POURING FROM AN EMPTY CUP: Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar at The University of Glasgow calling for a new political direction in Scotland
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
IT MUST have felt like a nightmare for Anas Sarwar last Sunday morning. The very week that the Scottish Labour Party is to meet and in effect launch its bid for power in the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections, the Sunday Times published a Norstat poll that would give Scottish Labour its worst result in the forthcoming elections since the inception of the Scottish parliament in 1999.
According to the poll, only 18 per cent of the Scottish electorate said they would vote for Labour, giving them 18 seats, four fewer than they currently have.
By contrast the SNP would win 55 seats, and the Greens 10, giving a narrow pro-independence majority of one. The good news is the Tories would lose 13 of their 31 MSPs, giving them, like Labour, 18 seats.
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