Will Westminster’s crisis be Scotland’s opportunity?
by Ken Ferguson • With each passing day the multi-sided crisis racking the May government throws up another issue and another bout of speculation about the Prime ...
Scottish Socialist Party £10/hr demo puts the bite on Apple
by Hugh Cullen and Michael Davidson • The Lothians branch of the SSP organised a demonstration at the Apple Store on Princes Street recently, demanding a £10-an-hour ...
Ursula K. Le Guin: ‘Source to nourish the uncolonised mind’
by Scott Macdonald • I generally do not weep when my heroes die. I do for Ursula K. Le Guin, speculative fiction writer, poet, scholar and genius, gone at the age of 88. ...
US chlorinated chicken the tip of a nasty iceberg
by Roz Paterson • Hey, happy new year! Have you noticed that Liam Fox, currently UK Trade Secretary, keeps saying that US-produced chicken is ‘perfectly safe’? Does ...
Working class demands hold the key to progress in 2018
by Ken Ferguson • The hangover that greeted the dawn of 2018 wasn’t just down to too much Prosseco but based on the experiences of the events of the old year and the ...
Publicly owned railways: the surest way to end rip off fares
by Gordon Martin, RMT Regional Organiser • Along with activists from RMT branches, I was out on Wednesday 3 January distributing postcards to rail commuters making their ...
In Momentumland, Jeremy Corbyn won the election
Book review: The Corbyn Effect, edited by Mark Perryman. Published by Lawrence & Wishart • by Colin Fox • Had you not known better before reading this book you would ...
BiFab battle shows why we need public ownership
by Ken Ferguson • The successful outcome of the battle to protect the green jobs and skills at the BiFab engineering yards is a rare and highly welcome victory for workers ...
Loch Lomond flamingos won’t fly
by Roz Paterson • The bonny banks of Loch Lomond may very well be a haven of beauty and tranquillity, available to all, for free…but that doesn’t mean it can’t ...
Battle lines in the December 21 Catalan election
by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • The December 21 election in Catalonia, called by Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, will be a plebiscite on his government’s October 27 ...
