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 some of these reasons, I ...
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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 wealth we create in the ...
Another Scotland is possible
by John McAllion, Scottish Socialist Party (former Labour MP and MSP) One memento I have kept from my time as a Labour politician is a CD of the Reverend Hammer’s Freeborn John. The CD tells in ...
Go forward and choose Yes
by Bob Thomson, former chair of the Labour Party in Scotland and member Labour for Independence I have been a Labour Party member for over 51 years, holding a range of positions from branch minute ...
Dump Trident and strengthen peace
by Isobel Lindsay, leading peace activist For the first time in over 50 years, Scotland has a realistic chance of getting rid of nuclear weapons here and of making a significant contribution to ...
Vote Yes to throw off elite rule
by Jean Urquhart MSP and John Finnie MSP The referendum has seen the greatest explosion of political engagement in our lifetimes. People in Britain are generally told that it’s best if we let our ...
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 decades people have put up ...
Restless Land: a radical history that needs to be in every school and college
Book review: Restless Land – a Radical Journey Through Scotland’s History by Alan McCombes and Roz Paterson. Published by Calton Books, 2014 by Pam Currie Well, I thought when I agreed to write ...
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 it. A hot night in ...
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