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Jerusalem Archbishop puts Israel in the dock

August 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Stephanie Pride As the bombs continue to fall on Gaza and the death toll mounts, support for the besieged Palestinians is spreading throughout all sections of society, not least among faith-based ...

Tide is turning: workers have the most to gain from Scottish independence

August 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Huge swathes of working class people in Scotland, including many who cling onto their Labour voting habits despite years of bitter disappointment, ...

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 ...

Oppose the nuclear waste sea move plan

August 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

by John Finnie MSP In 2006 George Monbiot wrote a fascinating article on Dounreay, the Nuclear Power Plant near Thurso in Caithness. He states, “In 1954 the nuclear industry, shielded from public ...

Scottish Gypsy Travellers face continued discrimination

July 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Roseanna McPhee and Colin Turbett Scotland’s longest standing ethnic minority, the Scottish Gypsy Traveller community, face continued discrimination despite the recognition in recent years of ...

SNP and Labour Falkirk spat mirrors national hostility

July 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Stephanie Pride It says a lot about the state of local politics in Falkirk that one socialist can rudely heckle another during what is ostensibly a debate about ...