A message from the Interim Scottish Executive Committee ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (Video text exceeds maximum Alt Text length, so the full text of the video is posted in replies instead)

12 hours and a bit to go! Let's get this party started ✊

🚨 Scottish Government bans public grants going to Israel's arms dealers! I'm glad the First Minister has accepted this proposal from Green MSPs, but congratulations must go to @scotnational.bsky.social, Scotland's Palestinian community, GGEC and otherss for fighting so hard to make it happen.

🚨📖 My Election Manifesto is now available to download + share! ⬇ andrea4gs.org.uk/s/manifesto.pdf This is my vision setting out how we need to change UNISON to make it the fighting, effective union it should be! Sign up to my campaign today andrea4gs.org.uk/#get-involved ✊

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.

'Labour’s £1bn green belt land grab will power “chatbots and deepfakes”' "Outrage as Rayner approves 18-metre-high digital fortress on protected land—without a single environmental study" www.ourfairfuture.org/p/labours-1b...

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

Reform Mayor Andrea Jenkyns doesn't like workers having more rights.

Our employer’s decision to end UCU’s co-ordinated efforts against casualisation has added significance given they’ve also dismantled the post leading the PGRs as Staff campaign. It is, however, consistent with an attitude which embraces the increased use of fixed-term and zero hours contracts.

🚨 Calling all progressive activists in Scotland! 🚨 Sign up to the event below to gather and discuss offering voters a left-wing alternative at the Holyrood elections next year 👇 (4th October, Renfield Centre, Glasgow)

The Labour party under Starmer is a force for bigotry and evil, and I'm happy to see good MPs leaving it behind.

Solidarity with Higher Education members; you deserve the full backing of our union.✊

The time to #SaveOurUniversities is now. Say no to cuts and the neoliberal pipe dream of "self-funding" universities. Join a union! ✊ #university #highereducation #austerity #joinaunion #scotland

Our employer is editing our members’ out-of-office replies to remove reference to our strike action. They are choosing to censor us rather than talk to us.

Absolutely shocking news coming out of Dundee today. Sending solidarity to the UCU staff on strike there, and the UNISON Branch which is going to be dealing with over 400 support staff facing redundancy. Time to get angry and get 👏🏻 ORGANISED 👏🏻 - this sector is falling apart! @unison.org.uk

Daß der Nazi dir einen Totenkranz flicht: Deutschland, siehst du das nicht? ~Tucholsky

Brilliant, razor-sharp analysis as usual from Ash. Bourgeois liberal identity politics is a fraudulent substitute for class consciousness and genuine intersectionality.

To save folk finding them all individually 😊

Unbelievable. With a ban on fire & rehire on the way it's an absolute insult for Aberdeen City Council to not rule out this cruel practice.

🟢 Why the Scottish Green Party? 🟢 My latest for Green Left Scotland covers why the @scottishgreens.org are the only realistic electoral vehicle for the left at the moment. Co-published with @heckle.scot, I also lay out why - as a socialist - I've been a long-time member.

In case anyone was wondering: No, preserving only Oxford, Cambridge, and a few 'elite' unis will not be sufficient for the UK to hold a position of future leadership in fundamental research.

Message from UNISON general secretary @christinamcanea.bsky.social to our sister union @social.verdi.de on the tragic events in Munich.

The big story of the 21st century is the precipitous decline of Western power. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/ukraines-d...

Today, at 29 years of age, I voted for the first time in a German election. I never thought it was worth the hassle given I no longer live there. Until I saw the fascist AfD placed second in the polls, and the so-called "Christian" Democrats relying on their votes in the Bundestag.

“Andrea Egan is committed to making UNISON a member-led union that wins the pay and conditions its members deserve. That's why I'm backing her to be UNISON's General Secretary.” - Jeremy Corbyn Independent MP for Islington North, Life Long Socialist and UNISON Member

Oh no, this is too awful.

Voting in the higher education ballot is important. It’s the only way we can do anything about the latest pay offer. Every vote counts, so don’t miss your chance to have your say. VOTE YES for strike action www.unison.org.uk/hepay2024

Appalling to see an SNP-Lib Dem council turn itself into P&O Ferries. Fire and rehire is a despicable tactic. I won't be voting for either of these lot in 2027 and I sure hope no one else does either.

🔴 NEW: The Scottish Government has been criticised for working “in-step with the Foreign Office” over a controversial meeting with an Israeli official. bit.ly/4hZzItl

💔What happened to 'Change'? 🥀Where is the 'New Direction'? All Labour has given us is more of the same. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland deserves better!