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Securing fairness and justice for Scotland’s social carers
Profit-driven private contractors must play absolutely no role in the new national care service, writes Unite Scotland regional secretary PAT RAFFERTY
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IT IS widely recognised that there is a crisis in our care sector that requires a complete overhaul of how care is delivered in Scotland. The task is so huge that for decades it has been kicked into the long grass.
Proposals for a national care service have finally been published, with the Scottish government stating that it wants it to be fully operational by 2026.
But exactly what type, form and shape of service this actually means in practice is one of the biggest wrangles in Scottish domestic politics.
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