BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further
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VINCE MILLS calls into question the SNP’s recent claim that freedom from Westminster, while remaining under the thumb of the Bank of England by keeping sterling as the currency, would work for anybody — or even be allowed by the EU
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We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
WHATEVER else the SNP government’s new publication A Stronger Economy with Independence is about, it is not about independence. This publication, the third in the series, would have an “independent” Scotland firstly chained to the Bank of England by sharing a common currency with the remainder of the UK until (at some unspecified date in the future) it creates its own currency. This is necessary for the next big step in Scottish liberation — membership of the European Union.
More on the currency issue later, but let’s start with some common ground. Nobody from Rishi Sunak-supporting Tories to the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) would deny that current performance of the Tory government is anything less than shambolic.
But, and I am sure CPB-ML would agree with me here, there is an enormous difference between the capitalist system and its managers, or in this case, bad managers.
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