This scandalous decision to scrap funeral plans that people have paid into for years must be reversed Join the protest outside parliament on Wednesday

Absolutely no guarantees from the Scottish Government that they won’t support a P&O Ferries model! Our thanks to @richardleonardmsp.bsky.social for asking about seafarer jobs and new direct roll-on, roll-off ferry services for passengers and freight between Scotland and Europe.

The return of an international ferry from Rosyth is a good idea but we must not see a repeat of P&O sacking 800 seafarers by video message fb.watch/DlL0-KK79Z/

Good to speak to the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland today – a training and professional development organisation which specialises in community nursing, midwifery and tackling health inequalities

Further education colleges need investment not cuts Delighted to host a delegation of trade unionists who are fighting to save the Alloa campus of Forth Valley College

We have not come very far in 900 years

I will leave Parliament as I entered it: with landlord monopoly and class inequality remaining as Scotland's hereditary curse fb.watch/DhIuhkSXYz/

I laid a wreath at the war memorial in Airdrie this morning in remembrance of all those lives lost in war

MSPs elected next year must think big and act radical to end the centuries-old injustice of land ownership fb.watch/DeZ_BNyUp9/

Nuclear weapons do not make us safe – if we don't destroy them, they will destroy us Big thanks to @scottishcnd.bsky.social for the opportunity to address their conference on stopping the nuclear nightmare

A packed meeting last night of students, family members and staff of Forth Valley College We speak with one voice: the Alloa campus must stay open

He labelled parliament 'the national gasworks'... fb.watch/D2TMFe-Gt9/

Informative visit to Reach Advocacy in Coatbridge today We need a human rights based approach to supporting every citizen and that means investing in organisations like Reach, rather than relying on the market

This Thursday Fight to save Alloa campus and for more investment in all our colleges

Sad to say farewell today to Stuart Gulliver who made an indelible mark on the city and culture of Glasgow A visionary thinker who put his ideas into practice: he still had much to give

Thank you to @fbunational.bsky.social rep Scott Fleming for the briefing on the planned cuts to Cumbernauld's fire and rescue service, including a visit to the site of St Mungo’s church in the town which burned down in August These cuts put lives at risk and must be stopped

In a year when racism is on the rise, we must stand up and speak out Show racism the red card

Always good to visit the Keir Hardie room at the Baird Museum in Cumnock Looking forward to the Keir Hardie Society AGM in Glasgow on Saturday with guest speaker Melissa Benn

Further education empowers people, strengthens communities, and drives Scotland’s economy Why then has the SNP cut college funding by 20% in the last five years?

👀 Watch John Swinney (eventually) admit he has NEVER visited Ferguson Marine as First Minister www.facebook.com/reel/1917815...

One quarter of the price you pay for your train ticket currently goes to private companies to pay shareholders I'm backing @aslefunion.bsky.social's demand for public financing of new trains through green bonds so that every penny can be reinvested

Great to see Battleship Potemkin at the Bo’ness Hippodrome at the weekend with a live musical accompaniment by S!nk

Not everyone who has joined the protests outside hotels where asylum seekers are staying would call themselves far right But anyone who stands with people making Nazi salutes and holding up signs bearing white supremacist slogans ought to conclude that they are on the wrong side

I know which side I am on in @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social's dispute with Edinburgh University bosses: @ucu.org.uk Which side is the Scottish Government on? fb.watch/Cd4eHs8sAW/

#OTD in 1959, 47 miners went to work in Auchengeich Pit and never came home Every year, their village remembers them by coming together to reaffirm the values of solidarity and unity fb.watch/Cbu_6uG3wA/

❌ Stop Trump 💥 Scrap nuclear weapons 🌍 Make the world a safer place fb.watch/CaFMUVzAnA/

This is a win for the workers and their trade unions who refused to accept that what they had been told was inevitable

Today the community of Moodiesburn remembered the 53 miners who perished in the Auchengeich pit disasters of 1931 and 1959 I was deeply honoured to address the memorial service

We're not going to grow our economy by relying on the war machine and the arms trade fb.watch/C2Kl2LqvbM/

Why aren't new trains being bought through issuing green bonds, as @aslefunion.bsky.social proposes, instead of by rip-off private lease deals with money siphoned out of the country? fb.watch/C04XX8Om8p/

I joined the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social picket line this morning to show solidarity and hear first-hand about the devastating plan for £140 million of cuts to jobs and courses They are asking people to email the university principal to oppose it

This is a victory for the rail unions who campaigned with banners bright fb.watch/BVxbpD2G4t/

Great to visit this exhibition of posters by Alistair McCallum and Jane Carroll from the Cranhill Arts project at Street Level Photoworks in Trongate, Glasgow Lots of happy memories

Migrant workers on farms across Scotland spent another night last night in unsafe overcrowded, unsanitary, inhumane accommodation @brianleishmanmp.bsky.social and I had productive discussions with the @workersupportc.bsky.social on the campaign to end this scandal

Songwriter, poet, socialist, feminist, revolutionary Mary Brooksbank is the timeless voice of our culture and our class fb.watch/BLMtwC-st8/

It feels like we are living in the middle of an attempt to turn back the clock We need to act together so that hope defeats both hate and fear

Happy birthday Keir – one of a kind ✊

In 1926, socialist and peace activist Clarice McNab Shaw proposed this motion at the Scottish Labour women's conference How apt

Continuing my research into the pioneering and principled life of socialist Clarice McNab Shaw Today in the magnificent Mitchell Library in Glasgow

Spent a very enjoyable and productive morning at the Ayrshire Archives researching the life and politics of Clarice McNab Shaw: the first woman to become a Labour councillor in Scotland and a great socialist MP Huge thanks to all the staff there

These are the images of the destruction of Gaza that Israel does not want you to see fb.watch/Bi1Ed4R066/

The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum has a wonderful collection relating to the socialist RB Cunninghame Graham Thanks to Aoife McKenna and the staff for arranging for me to visit today to research his life, work, culture and politics

'Communism is the philosophy of hope and faith in humanity' – Willie Gallacher, working class agitator fb.watch/AT3-Ptap60/

Thoroughly enjoyable and informative visit to Brownsbank cottage, where Hugh MacDiarmid lived and wrote. Thanks to Denham and Susan The trustees have great plans to restore this national treasure to help future generations appreciate MacDiarmid’s contribution to our political and cultural thinking

💯 this Make the super rich pay, not the sick and disabled

The Queer Breakfast Club provides peer support in a safe space for the LGBTIQ+ community in Falkirk and Grangemouth Great to join them for a chat this evening

The Public Audit Committee has published its new report on Ferguson Marine Port Glasgow. Their message is clear: for this historic yard to thrive, it needs stronger investment and clearer oversight from the Scottish Government Hear more from Committee Convener, @richardleonardmsp.bsky.social⬇️

The US and Israel have turned aid distribution in Gaza into killing fields This barbaric privatised and militarised system must end and the UN's relief agency must be reinstated

There’s no off-season for PFA Scotland Good to catch-up on their work to defend and advance the rights of footballers past and present