Cornton Vale protestors demand radical change
by Jenni Gunn, lead RISE candidate, Mid Scotland & Fife The Russian novelist Fydor Dostoyevsky famously said; “The degree of civilisation in a society can be judged by ...
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New mobilisation tactics for an alternative Europe
by Sophia Lycouris, RISE Lothians list candidate As mentioned in a previous Voice, the Transnational Social Strike Platform is a group of European organisations and ...
Roosh V protests galvanise anti-rape culture campaigners
by Jenni Gunn, lead RISE candidate Mid Scotland & Fife The demonstrations in Glasgow and Edinburgh against rape-advocate Roosh V were about so much more than one ...
Left needs womens’ voices at every level
by Suki Sangha, RISE Glasgow candidate We’re trying to do things a little differently in RISE. We’re addressing issues which, far too often, have been deemed ...
Solving the environmental crisis can not be left to the Greens
by Roz Paterson We are experiencing “a step change from one world to another…the changes are as big as those that happened at the end of the last ice age.” So says ...
2016 presents Scotland’s left with unprecedented challenges
by John McAllion In July of 1988, the Queen addressed both Houses of Parliament on the occasion of the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution. Her address, awash with ...
With Labour a political corpse, Scotland needs a new left
by Jim Sillars It was little noticed at the time amid successive Blair-led Labour victories, that the ejection of Clause 4 from its constitution, and the destruction of its ...
RISE conference signals start of left challenge for Holyrood 2016
by Jonathon Shafi Next May’s Holyrood election will be strikingly different from others before it coming as they will just twenty months after the biggest mass movement in ...
Scotland’s left alliance on the rise
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The background political context to the RISE conference in Glasgow this weekend could hardly be more significant. Having declared ...
Bombing won’t bring peace in Syria or security in Scotland
by Bill Bonnar Bombing Syria is not a strategy. It is what you do when you don’t have a strategy. The government want to use the bombings in Paris as an excuse to start a ...
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