SOCIALISTS set a target to double the Morning Star’s Scottish circulation this weekend.
At the paper’s readers’ and supporters’ conference in Glasgow on Saturday, Scottish TUC deputy general secretary Dave Moxham said the paper could take advantage of the collapse of the political centre to build support for a popular politics.
“We’re no longer in a situation where the right can say that, if it pulls the centre of gravity to the right, then the organised left will follow,” Mr Moxham said.
Campaigns against nuclear weapons on the Clyde, financial backing for arms firms and rising militarism are converging with solidarity for Palestine, as Scotland’s peace movement builds momentum ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election, says ARTHUR WEST
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER


