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 ...
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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 ...
The more Cameron vilifies the SNP, the more Scots voters flock to the nationalists
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson This General Election appears to be a foregone conclusion. The polls all predict another hung Parliament. And the more David ...
How can alliances for socialism be built?
Antonio Gramsci – A Great and Terrible World: The Pre-Prison Letters, 1908-1926 edited and translated by Derek Boothman. Published by Lawrence & Wishart by Bill Bonnar ...
Can Westminster poll open the way for revitalised Scottish left?
by Jonathon Shafi Much has been made in recent months about the depth of the crisis of the British state. The UK state is used to crisis of course. It has withstood wars, ...
After Netanyahu victory, what next?
by Bill Bonnar The general election in Israel last week saw the re-election of a reactionary, hawkish government and represents a blow to any kind of peace process in the ...
Pegida plague creeps beyond German base
Fiz Garvie reports In the last few days and weeks, the ‘Pegida’ phenomenon has been spreading from Germany where it first started in October 2014 to other European ...
Will Westminster’s indy nightmare return after May?
by John McAllion Westminster politics has long been haunted by the spectre of Scottish independence. Since the SNP’s Winnie Ewing sensationally captured the previously rock ...
Is Holyrood investing in arms and fossil fuels?
Highlands and Islands MSP John Finnie lifts the lid In these hard times it’s vital that the public are able to understand where their hard-earned money is ‘invested’ ...
Hope is coming – Scotland’s left needs to be part of it
by Jonathon Shafi Hope has returned to Europe. After years of brutal austerity measures, the people of Greece have delivered a body blow to the bankers and technocrats. The ...
