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Following on from last week's piece on Mental Health Awareness Week, which explored how our capitalist society fundamentally affects our mental health in a negative way, Mélina Valdelièvre shares her own testimony and explores how racism and other social pressures cause problems. The piece is adapted from a speech delivered at the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) on Saturday. It includes real-life stories some may find triggering or upsetting...
Mental Health Awareness Week kicked off yesterday, with the prevailing sentiment being that 'It's okay to not be okay'. While this is an important message, Sarah Collins of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) explains that the imbalanced structure of our capitalist society fundamentally affects our mental health in a negative way. She reflects on this and invites you to an important event that addresses these challenges...
Negotiations between the Universities and College Union (UCU) and Universities UK (UUK) resumed yesterday, but strike action continues. Writing in a personal capacity, University of Edinburgh lecturer and UCU member Grant Buttars says we shouldn't diminish the role that blind neo-liberal dogma has played in this pensions dispute...
Socialists differ in opinion on how we best tackle the issue of Brexit as a movement. In the second of our series of articles on Brexit, trade unionist Sarah Collins offers a strategic analysis of the road ahead....
