How to win an industrial dispute in three not so easy lessons
by Billy McChord, EIS-FELA Executive member, Branch Convener and RISE activist • There is much to be learned from the recent experience of the Further Education Lecturers ...
Holyrood: independence still key
by Ken Ferguson • With the unedifying shouting match of the first “leaders” TV debate the official Holyrood election campaign got under way. Hosted by a BBC ...
RISE MSPs vital to stop SNP moving right
by Colin Fox, lead RISE candidate, Lothians • Politics and public opinion are full of contradictions. Take the survey published this week showing the Scottish ...
RISE challenge London for control of indyref2
by Voice Reporter • RISE, Scotland’s Left Alliance, has published its strategy for a second referendum on Scottish independence. which directly challenges ...
Memory Lane has no answers to Scotland’s current crisis
by Ken Ferguson • They say that nostalgia isn’t what it was but there is certainly plenty of it about in today’s politics. In an uncanny echo of the dirty tricks of ...
Socialist MSPs make a profound difference
by Colin Fox, lead RISE candidate for the Lothians • With the fifth Holyrood elections now upon us and RISE carrying the left’s hopes this time it is worth reminding ...
Climate change: action is urgent
by Roz Paterson • It’s been a hell of a winter. Actually, where the hell was the winter? The official start of spring is nearly upon us, yet it seems that the season ...
Brexit or not, pro-indy left case remains essential
by Ken Ferguson With the super hyped Cameron EU “deal” already fading from memory, the real reason for the supposedly historic EU referendum is growing ever clearer. At ...
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 ...
Sturgeon Brexit indyref claims challenged
by Colin Fox, RISE lead candidate for the Lothians “A second referendum on independence will almost certainly be demanded if the UK votes to leave the EU against ...
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