Culture

The Scotland we are living in now was inconceivable three short years ago

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Alan Bissett The No vote in the referendum in September was truly devastating to those of us who voted Yes. We felt it as yet another blow to social justice—to the new, mass alliance of ...

Nothing can be the same for Scotland’s media

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Paul Holleran, Scottish Organiser, NUJ It has been said by many people in Scotland since the independence referendum that “things will never be the same again”. Nothing could be truer ...

Build on Yes campaign gains

September 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Lynda Williamson, Newsnet Scotland Most commentators would agree that the process of the independence referendum has been transformational for voters in Scotland. Up and down the country people ...

Restless Land: a radical history that needs to be in every school and college

August 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

Book review: Restless Land – a Radical Journey Through Scotland’s History by Alan McCombes and Roz Paterson. Published by Calton Books, 2014 by Pam Currie Well, I thought when I agreed to write ...

‘A pub full of revolutionaries who want nothing to change’

August 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

Book review: The Story of Sandy Bells: Edinburgh’s World Famous Folk Bar by Gillian Ferguson. Published by Troubador by Allan Armstrong Sandy Bell’s on Forrest Road is “Edinburgh’s World ...

Scottish independence can show the world a new model for the 21st century, writes Hue and Cry’s Pat Kane

August 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Pat Kane There are parts of Scotland where the past, the present and the future gets rolled up in one. I’m often to be found in and about Spiers Wharf in Glasgow. The productive might of the ...

Restless Land: A people’s narrative of Scottish history

August 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Book launch: Restless Land by Alan McCombes and Roz Paterson, published by Calton Books and distributed by AK Press by Frances Curran It was a book launch but not as we know it. A hot night in ...

A sporting chance?

July 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Preview: Endurance by Catrin Evans and The Women’s Creative Company. The Arches, Argyle Street, Glasgow, 24–27 July, various times Endurance is a theatre project which has brought together over a ...

Exhibition on Glasgow’s links to slave trade

July 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

How Glasgow Flourished 1714–1837. A temporary exhibition on show at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow until 17 August by Dominic Bascombe, Assistant Organiser, National Union of ...

Indyref gets arty

July 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Festival of the Common Weal, 6 July at 12-6pm at The Arches in Glasgow, celebrates left music, arts and politics and brings together various left and progressive organisations and campaigns to ...

Scottish Socialist Party