Democracy: the people’s weapon elites fear
by Ken Ferguson • That one image of a heavily armoured baton wielding Spanish riot cop attacking Catalan voters tells us more about the fragile nature of democracy than a thousand weighty books. In ...
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Meeting people’s priorities is key to winning indyref 2
by Ken Ferguson • Amidst the all enveloping fog of Brexit claim and counter claim, the outline of what lies ahead appears with growing clarity. In the run up to the June Euro poll, the Voice ...
Scottish democracy needs a vibrant, diverse media
by Paul Holleran, Scottish Organiser National Union of Journalists • A major measure of any functioning democracy is the state of its media and anyone looking closely at the newspaper and ...
Conference marks next stage for Scotland’s Left Alliance
by Jonathon Shafi RISE – Scotland’s Left Alliance, is on the cusp of moving on to the next phase of our development. Since our launch at the end of August we have been developing local activist ...
Time for a citizens’ solution to Scotland’s media crisis
by Jack Ferguson The recent news that the editor of both the Sunday Herald and The National, Richard Walker, is to resign as part of an effort by owners Newsquest to cut costs is a sobering one for ...
Holyrood 2016 needs mandate for second indyref
by Jim Sillars To know why the Scottish Parliament, after the 2016 election, must command a majority for a second independence mandate, look not only at the present but at the 2020 Westminster ...
From Spain to Scotland, the power of money must be tamed
by Ken Ferguson As the Tories unveil their assault on vital services, democratic rights and trade unions amidst the establishment pomp of the Queen’s speech, the need for resistance to this ...
Real Co-op campaigners vow to fight on to break Labour link
by David Eyre For the last few months, I’ve been helping the Real Co-op campaign try to end the exclusive link between the Labour Party and the Co-operative Group. Unfortunately, at the Group AGM ...
Left score big gains in Spain
Spanish local elections: ‘Sí, se puede!’ Yes, you can! by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona Well before the polling stations closed we knew that something special was happening in the May 24 Spanish ...
8th March: International Women’s Day – let’s make it happen!
by Sandra Webster, Katie Bonnar, Hollie Cameron, Jenni Gunn and Christine McVicar ‘Make it happen’ is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day. The day we celebrate the uniqueness ...
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