Focus on personality a diversion from urgent action needed now
by Ken Ferguson · The long slow decomposition of recently all powerful Scottish Labour reached its latest stage with the failed “chicken coup” against erstwhile leader ...
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For people and for planet, Scotland needs real change
Editorial by Ken Ferguson If we are to believe the media pundits, Scottish politics is about to be a battle between a leftward moving Scottish Labour squaring up to take on ...
Energy of mass independence campaign creates need for RISE
by Jonathon Shafi We live in a historical moment marked by deep and profound ideological and social flux. If you are unconvinced by this, just think back ten years from now: ...
Scottish Labour’s main business now is to avoid extinction
John McAllion assesses Scottish Labour’s fall Labour’s cataclysmic electoral defeat has sparked the resignation of its losing leaders north and south of the border, the ...
What awaits new SNP MPs – if the polls are correct?
former MP and MSP John McAllion sounds a warning… Labour’s left wing icon Nye Bevan was first elected as a MP in 1929 shortly before the Wall Street crash that led to ...
Murphy’s lips are moving…
by Ken Ferguson No need for a smart watch to count the ticking countdown to what looks increasingly like Labour’s date with doom on 7 May. Just count the increasingly ...
Scottish Labour is now a shadow of its former self
by John McAllion, Scottish Socialist Party, former Labour MP and MSP The burden of delivering a No majority against independence was always going to fall on the shoulders of ...
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