🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

In 1937, 56 Basque children fleeing war found safety in Newport and a team with The Basque Boys F.C. 🖤❤️ Our 25-26 Away Shirt honours their story with every name woven into the fabric. A bond remembered. A shirt that tells their story. #OneClubOneCounty #AthleticClub

This morning I was canvassing for the FBU Scotland regarding the potential cuts at Lochgelly Fire Station. To constituents, this may result in a reduction of 20 staff, an appliance, a rope unit, resulting in delayed response times and putting lives at risk. Cuts cost lives,

This is everyone’s business some excellent speakers from the Trade Union movement. No trade union or trade unionist should ever turn a blind eye to racism. Steve Gillan Gen Sec

Do we ever learn from the mistakes of history? - After one year of a Labour government attacking winter fuel allowance and disabled people, the trade union movement must step up regardless of who holds power, writes STEVE GILLAN morningstaronline.co.uk/article/do-we-…

Police destruction of Orgreave papers - Archives & Records Association call for police documents to be preserved by law “There needs to be legislation to protect them, & prevent the kind of destruction that has happened in Northumbria.” #OrgreaveInquiry theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car (Live)

SFRS have launched a consultation with proposals to close fire stations, change fire cover, and remove appliances. Following the removal of 166 firefighter roles in 2023, these additional cuts threaten to leave an already stretched service without adequate staff and resources

On 19 July 1936 the workers of Barcelona defeated the military uprising and started the Spanish Revolution. Over the next three years, the Spanish working class was sold down the river by the liberal democracies in league with the fascists. And so it goes...

Our Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is being hollowed out because of Scottish Government budget cuts. Less firefighters and less appliances mean people and communities will be less safe. Firefighters at FBU Scotland need adequate government funding in order to do their jobs.

“Labour MPs who turned a blind eye to the first wave of suspensions must now be questioning the value of tolerating an authoritarian campaign to crush dissent against a government with a 12 percent approval rating and no vision for reversing its decline.” tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/the-la…

The inside story on firms feasting on Scotland's nationalised trains. ScotRail trains are leased from the private sector at eye-watering cost to the taxpayer. 25% of every ticket sold in Scotland goes to private companies leasing “rolling stock”. heraldscotland.com/news/25326799.…

Noam Chomsky calls this 'Thirdworldisation'. Wealthy developed countries transformed to resemble (become?) third world countries where elite wealth coexists with mass poverty, by dismantling public services, labour protections & democratic institutions. economist.com/leaders/2025/0…

'National shame': Scots firms get nothing from £350m of SNP-backed ferry deals heraldscotland.com/news/25324921.…

Disgusting

🚨From calling Israel a "critical friend" to apparently taking instructions from Israeli officials regarding transparency around the meeting, new details of the meeting are published today thenational.scot/news/25326868.…

Are the Scottish Greens descending into civil war? bbc.in/3GxjXNa

This is great piece by ⁦NeilMackay⁩ on the ⁦ASLEF⁩ campaign to end the privatisation bonanza for ROSCOs The inside story on firms feasting on Scotland's nationalised trains | The Herald heraldscotland.com/news/25326799.…

Scotland’s Great Train Robbery: how private companies plunder our nationalised railways Scotland doesn’t own its trains. We lease them - and 25% of every ticket sold goes to private companies If we dumped them we could afford a world-class railway heraldscotland.com/news/25326799.…

Revealed: the private companies feasting on Scotland’s nationalised trains … and how binning them would create a world-class railway ScotRail may be state-owned … but the trains are leased from big business at exorbitant rates which gouge the taxpayer heraldscotland.com/news/25326799.…

Think Scotland’s trains are nationalised? Think again. It’s a mirage Our trains are owned by big business & we have to lease them at eye watering rates: 25% of every ticket sold goes to private firms If we dumped them we could build a world class railway heraldscotland.com/news/25326799.…