Year: 2016
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Glasgow janitors industrial action enters its third week
120 UNISON Glasgow Branch members employed by Cordia as primary school janitors are now in their thrid week of official…
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Egypt: Fifth anniversary of heroic revolutionary uprising
David Johnson, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) Unusually cold wet weather in Egypt on January 25th this year…
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Q and A on how councillors and MSPs could set no-cuts budgets and stand up to Tory austerity
Socialist Party Scotland Scottish councils and the Scottish government are drawing up budgets that threaten devastating cuts to jobs and…
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The socialist case for scrapping Trident and defending jobs
By Matt Dobson The Conservative Westminster government is likely to bring a vote on renewing the Trident nuclear missile system…
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Demands for inquiry into police spying in Scotland
Harvey Duke reports (This article appears in the new issue of the Socialist - the paper of Socialist Party Scotland) This…
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Seattle socialist Kshama Sawant replies to Obama’s State of the Union
Kshama Sawant gives a response to the 2016 State of the Union on behalf of Socialist Alternative. Join the fight…
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West Dunbartonshire teachers strike to defend education
Matt Dobson and Louise Donegan Secondary school teachers who are members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) union took…
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Politicians have a choice: Implement Tory austerity or set no-cuts budgets
By Brian Smith and Jim McFarlane, Glasgow City Unison and Dundee City Unison branch secretaries (in a personal capacity) and…
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Steel: public ownership needed as private buyers threaten pay and pensions
Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland According to press reports, the SNP Scottish government will provide a £195,000 short term subsidy…
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Teachers to strike against cuts
Lynda McEwan, West Dunbartonshire parent and Socialist Party Scotland West Dunbartonshire Secondary school teachers will strike on 12th January in response…
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