Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
THE Labour Party’s biggest remaining promise is a Green Prosperity Plan, promising to spend “£28 billion per year” investing in green jobs and insulation. That sounds like a big offer. But what does it say in the small print?
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves’s plan is modelled on Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Looking at Biden’s scheme gives us clues to what will happen with Reeves’s plan.
Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a trimmed-down version of his original “build back better” plan. That was an ambitious, New Deal-style mix of social and economic investment.
Under current policy, welfare cuts are just a small downpayment on future austerity, argues MICHAEL BURKE
RMT’s former president ALEX GORDON explains why his union supports defence diversification and a just transition for workers in regions dependent on military contracts, and calls on readers to join CND’s demo against nuclear-armed submarines on June 7



