Can Yes candidates challenge Westminster elites?
by John Finnie MSP The votes have been counted and our tears have been shed. Yet, within hours of the result it was becoming apparent that far from the eternal triumph of the ...
common weal
Independence not defeated but deferred
Scottish Socialist Party media release The Scottish Socialist Party is naturally disappointed by last night’s result. It is setback for the forces of social democracy ...
Labour voters moving to Yes
by Alan Bissett Here we are going into the last fortnight of the long campaign for Scottish independence and things are now very exciting indeed. The latest poll, from the ...
Vote Yes to break the walls of cynicism
by Mary Lockhart, Labour and Co-operative Party member, feminist activist Others have written of the political and structural reasons for their decision to vote Yes. With ...
Workers need to vote Yes
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser and USDAW workplace convener The working class make up the vast majority population, but we get a shrinking minority of the ...
Working class reject fat cat rule for Yes vote
by Jonathon Shafi, Radical Independence Campaign Beneath the headlines, unknown to formal politics and certainly to Better Together, a quiet revolution is taking place. For ...
Voices for Yes
Stephen Smellie, depute-convener, UNISON Scotland (personal capacity) As a Unison activist, I have no illusions that the SNP are the ideal government for working people. ...
Tide is turning: workers have the most to gain from Scottish independence
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 ...
Scottish independence can show the world a new model for the 21st century, writes Hue and Cry’s Pat Kane
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 ...
Restless Land: A people’s narrative of Scottish history
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 ...
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