“Freeports are no isolated project but another demonstration that the government is unwilling to challenge the corporate interests crowding around ‘net zero’ and green industries.”

Excellent piece in Scottish Left Review on freeports: scottishleftreview.scot/nothing-green-…

Disappointing to read this on #MayDay

We should be strengthening workers' rights & conditions, not watering them down. Workers are the economy. Workers produce our food & deliver services. Workers teach & care for us.

May Day Greetings to all, wherever you are in Scotland or the world. The Internationale unites the human race 🚩

Our latest issue is dedicated workers’ struggle for good wages, dignity, and genuine freedom, whoever they are, wherever they come from.

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Really important event as part of #GlasgowMayDay looking at how we fight to secure the right to work for all + build solidarity to stop deportations. Hosted by Maryhill Integration Network Glasgow Trade Unions at the STUC. Check out the beautiful handmade bunting at May Day Rally this Sunday.

Formal control of the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt has been shifting for a century. But Israel's use of the border to socially, politically, and economically isolate Gaza has been constant and relentless

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Event announcements!

We're chuffed to be adding some gorgeous conversations to our programme, to take you from solutions to the housing crisis to a novel on female power and patriarchy in thirteenth century Ireland:

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Today Scottish Government launched its consultation on Employment Injury Assistance. This is the first step in reforming the UK Industrial Injuries Scheme in Scotland.

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You can access the consultation here: consult.gov.scot/social-securit…

Losing our communities of native Gaelic speakers would be a crime and a loss to us all, but recent threats to cut the Bòrd na Gàidhlig have galvanised the grassroots resistance. Everyone should get behind it.

Tòmas MacAilpein 🇵🇸 on why the Gaelic crisis matters

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The latest film from Ken Loach & Sixteen Films is a tale of the hostility that grows when collectivism is undermined. When community worker Laura brings donated supplies to Syrian refugees, she's confronted by resentment. Hope lies in revival of collective spirit.
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'They want us in jail because we have a problem with police hierarchy and far-right movements.'

Jennifer Debs speaks to Javitxu Aijon, one of four anti-fascists imprisoned this month for protesting against far-right Vox party in Spain. From Heckle.

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Great piece of captured recent social history South Ayrshire Museums & Galleries Ayrshire Federation of Historical Societies Ayrshire Archives Cllr Duncan Townson

'They want us in jail because we have a problem with police hierarchy and far-right movements.'

Jennifer Debs speaks to Javitxu Aijon, one of four anti-fascists imprisoned this month for protesting against far-right Vox party in Spain. From Heckle.

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'In fact the non-AEU staff set up an office in the hotel in town, until a coordinated boycott by locals and delivery workers presented such a threat to the hotel’s reputation that they told the company to leave.'

When a fighting spirit was all you needed for victory.

Yousaf urged to 'withdraw' new homes law by top housebuilder. They never miss an opportunity to call for profits from exploiting renters. Build to private rent distorts the housing market for everyone. heraldscotland.com/opinion/242819…

Losing our communities of native Gaelic speakers would be a crime and a loss to us all, but recent threats to cut the Bòrd na Gàidhlig have galvanised the grassroots resistance. Everyone should get behind it.

Tòmas MacAilpein 🇵🇸 on why the Gaelic crisis matters

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In 1982, workers at Wallacetown Engineering in Ayr initiated a lock-in against the wishes of union officials when General Electric tried to fire their branch convenor and dozens of other workers🪧

Alex Baird was that convenor. Here he tells the story.

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As we mark the 40th anniversary of the miners' strike, James Barrowman delves into the glossary of mining terms gathered by his namesake James Barrowman, finding the raw material for these three new poems.

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Mary Brooksbank is inspiring a new generation of socialists far beyond her Dundee home.
The resistance and resilience of Dundee women were integral to her writing. Her work gives us insight into their lives that we might never otherwise have viewed.
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On the centenary of his death, what is John Maclean's symbolic use for the 21st century Scottish Left?

This was the question that shaped the work of the John MacLean Centerary Committee, formed by Henry Bell Suki Sangha 🇵🇸 Joey Simons Ewan Gibbs sean baillie
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