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. ...
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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 ...
Voices for Yes: politicians, trade unionists, comedians, even Faslane nuclear base-workers speak up for independence
Faslane worker on Yes by Chris, a Faslane worker As a socialist, I have nothing to vote for when it comes to a general election. The choice is Tory or Labour, a Labour Party ...
‘To vote Yes is to play our part in the global struggle of working people. Just as in the UCS, our victory will be their victory’
by Tam Brotherston, UCS veteran and former John Brown’s shop steward Before presenting my point of view as a veteran of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders struggle let me make ...
Think big and vote Yes!
by Colin Fox, SSP co-spokesperson With six weeks to go until the referendum the Yes side still has it all to do. The opinion polls suggest the gap between the two sides has ...
Why Scotland must vote Yes – the case for women
by Pam Currie “Oh, I don’t know what to think…” … “What if…” … “We’ll never manage it…” Sound familiar? It does to me. In recent months ...
It’s people’s power versus London elites in indy battle
by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice Despite the two year long negative scare campaign run by the unionists in Better Together, as we pass midsummer and close on ...
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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