Well done Sisters 👏 well deserved

🇨🇺 ✊ On 19 April 1961, Cuban troops successfully fought off a CIA-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs.

It was the first defeat of US imperialism in the Western Hemisphere and showed that the small island of Cuba could stand up to the might and military power of the USA.

Emotional session at #STUC24 on Tuesday with harrowing contributions from Husam Zomlot and Shaher Sa'ed laying bare the horrific toll of Israel’s catastrophic genocide in Gaza, and the brutal settler violence in the West Bank.
Gus Sproul proudly spoke on our remitted motion,…

In a couple of weeks, the May Day Tour with Tobias Thiele will be in full swing 🎸

Here’s a reminder of where we’ll be:

EDINBURGH - May 2nd
DUNDEE - May 3rd
SHEFFIELD - May 4th
BARNSLEY - May 5th
GLASGOW - May 6th

Tickets available at my link in bio 🔗

The reality of Scotland’s prisons - too many prisoners, not enough staff and officers having work until 68 - this is bad for prisoners, bad for Prison Officers and bad for society

Integrated ticketing in Scotland was consulted on in 2008, a business case published in 2011 and proposed in 2012 by the government as the 'Saltire Card'.

We yet again welcome the latest announcement on integrated ticketing, however public transport must be affordable.

I am trying to build a house & am pleased that the heat engineering assessment has scored it B (90) for energy efficiency & A for Co2 emissions impact 🙂 Scottish Ministers should be very pleased. However, the new build heat standard has stopped all my plans in their tracks 1/7

🔥FBU condemns industrial injuries bill being voted down 🔥👇👇Fire Brigades Union FBU Scotland - North Area FBU East Scotland FBU West Scotland UNITY Consulting Scotland Mark Griffin

Disappointing news from Scottish Government on U-turn on climate targets. If we are serious about the climate emergency we need action on rail freight and trains fares to get trucks off the road and people out of cars

SUNAK: 'I will never dismiss or downplay the illnesses people have.'

Meanwhile:

The UN found that government policy has “undermined the human dignity” of disabled people, they also found disabled people are “demonised” by the government

Rishi? Respond?

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Last year, Unite Hospitality members at Glasgow’s 13th Note told #Skotia they were undefeated.

✊This week, they WON their Employment Tribunal against the owner of the bar and were awarded maximum compensation.

Breaking news: Government abandons its “Work weird” scheme, for MPs, after a spate of complaints.

Devi Sridhar: Yet again, we in Scotland have the lowest life expectancy in western Europe. Here’s how to improve it. The Scottish government is right to target smoking, drinking and drug misuse. But the root cause remains: deprivation theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Timing is everything…

Mood of colleagues on party members' call today was one of anger that Scottish Greens are part of a government abandoning #climate targets, I felt.

We were told we need to switch fr 'targets as substitute for action', to action itself. Agree.

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The Pogues - Eve of Destruction

‘You boy! I’ve been locked in a flat with very bad people and need £5000 as a matter of life and death”

Aye right

Mairi McAllan talking about the importance of public transport in meeting climate targets just weeks after the Scottish Government imposed an almost 10 per cent hike on ScotRail fares.