New Website now at www.morningstarscotland.org

We've moved! Or rather our website has.

Please find our new website at www.morningstarscotland.org so remember to update your browser favorites/ bookmarks!

All the past material is there, plus so much more new material besides.

As we seek to build our paper and win new regular readers to the best daily paper printed in Britain, we felt a new website for our work in Scotland was needed. So going from a free Blogspot blog we have upgraded to a dedicated website which uses the power of WordPress to build pages & posts. It means that we can do so much more for very little expense.

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Many thanks for your continued support for the Morning Star,
Scottish Morning Star Campaigns Committee.

2014 SPRING CONFERENCE

SUNDAY 2 MARCH

SCOTLAND: WHAT WAY TO ECONOMIC SELF DETERMINATION ?

Speakers include

Sandra White MSP, Michael Connarty MP, Richard Leonard, Colin Fox, 

Neil Findlay MSP, Alan Mackinnon

Chair: Jane Carolan

Register at door from 10.45 a.m.

STUC, 333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow

Our Class Our Culture series

DUNDEE

Tuesday 4 February

William McGonagall and the Radical 

Tradition in Scottish Poetry

Alistair Findlay  

Chair Mike Arnot

7 p.m. DVA, 10 Constitution Street

Scottish Morning Star Conference Autumn 2013

ARGUMENTS FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

Peter Pinkney President RMT

Agnes Tolmie, past President STUC

Stephen Boyd, Research STUC

Harry Frew STUC President, UCATT

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP: Winning the Policy Arguments

Neil Findlay MSP 

Lynn Henderson, PCS Scottish Secretary

Chris Stephens, SNP Trade Union group

Dave Watson, Political Officer Unison Scotland

The Morning Star’s autumn conference will discuss how to oppose the current ConDem drive for further privatisation, of posts, banking, government services and nuclear fuel, and hear the arguments FOR public ownership. Private enterprise in Britain is plainly not working. Business investment has collapsed: lower than at any time since 1945. The mismanagement of the financial system – with banks geared to maximising speculative profits – has brought the worse economic crash since the 1930s. Privatised utilities have proved spectacular failures. Ofgen warns of power black-outs by 2015 as a result of lack of investment in the privatised energy sector. Privatised rail has the highest subsidies in Europe – while the publicly owned East Coast line has delivered almost £1billion in profit. A socially disastrous housing crisis has resulted from the inability of the private sector to provide affordable houses. Yet elsewhere in the world there is economic growth – and it is generally in those countries where there is a significant measure of public ownership and active public support for industry. The conference will examine the policy challenges involved in re-winning a mass consensus in favour of public ownership.

Public Meeting

Jointly sponsored by Institute of Employment Rights and the Scottish Morning Star Campaign Committee

 Campaign for Trade Union Freedom

FREE 

TRADE UNIONS

 POWER 

TO FIGHT INJUSTICE

Carolyn Jones  IER

Pat Stuart  Unite Executive member

Phil McGarry   RMT Scotland Political Officer

Chair Stephen Smellie

Friday 25 October at 7 p.m.

STUC  333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow G3