PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE explains why opposing war is inseparable from defending jobs, wages and public services – and why readers should come to the London Peace Conference on Saturday June 20
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Fourteen years of SNP failure
Disillusionment with New Labour government narrowly gained the SNP a majority in 2007 – but they soon revealed themselves to be a 'business as usual' neoliberal party, writes GORDON MACKAY
Boris Johnson pleadged to boost "the ties that bind our United Kingdom" when he met Nicola Sturgeon last week.
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
BY the time the next Scottish Parliament election comes around in 2021 the Scottish National Party will have been the sole party of government in Scotland for 14 years, longer than any single party United Kingdom government since 1830 with the exception of the Tory governments of Thatcher/Major.
After such a period of uninterrupted power and popular support, actually increasing their share of the constituency vote at each election, it would be easy to excuse the thought that the SNP had earned its political success by bold promises, and then delivering on them, changing the face of Scotland in the way that some multi-term governments have done for Britain.
The reality is somewhat different, and the fact is that not only has the SNP repeatedly made very few specific electoral promises, as compared to broad brush claims of societal transformation, but when they have done so they repeatedly fail to achieve what they promise.
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