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TOP Tories were given a “healthy dose of reality” as trade unionists and anti austerity campaigners descended on their Scottish conference in Edinburgh yesterday.
Demonstrators from the Scottish People’s Assembly, the People’s NHS campaign and unions Unite, Unison, EIS and GMB joined the lobby of the conference organised by the Scottish TUC.
STUC assistant secretary Helen Martin pronounced the Tory view of the economy to be quite different from that of ordinary working people.
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
STEVE PREDDY of Unite South West says his union’s recent conference broadcast workers’ dissatisfaction at the government’s attacks on their class
RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society
Almost half of universities face deficits, merger mania is taking hold, and massive fee hikes that will lock out working-class students are on the horizon, write RUBEN BRETT, PAUL WHITEHOUSE and DAN GRACE