by Sandra Webster Consensus and evidence of some left unity were present in Glasgow last weekend. Thousands marched in Saturday in George Square in the largest demonstration against nuclear weapons Scotland has seen for decades. This was backed up by a mass blockade on Monday which hundreds attended. This saw 47 people arrested and the […]
by Sandra Webster With the media’s attention on the death of Thatcher, it was a good time to bury bad news. This included the latest in a number of benefit reforms which are designed to pave the way to Universal Credit. A benefit cap of £500 has been introduced as a pilot as in four […]
by Richie Venton With 630,000 members, the Scottish trade union movement makes up a huge slice of the population, both when it comes to fighting attacks on our lives and conditions right now, and in shaping Scotland’s future. So it’s encouraging that the recent STUC conference in Perth agreed a whole raft of progressive policies […]
by Richie Venton “I moved from a two bedroom house to a three, because as well as my 3-year-old I have three stepsons who live with us a few days a week. “The council said I qualified for that size of house, but now months later I am being hammered by the Bedroom Tax, because […]
by Ken Ferguson The Scottish Socialist Party has agreed to seek discussions with other progressive parties and campaigns on the pro-independence left to explore the possibility of reaching an agreed set of policies for a post Yes Scotland. Agreed by the party’s conference in Edinburgh the approach aims to explore the areas of agreement on […]
by Colin Fox It will surely become one of those questions people ask periodically – ‘where were you when you heard Thatcher was dead?’ I was in a traffic jam adjacent to the Antarctic sailing ship RRS Discovery in Dundee. After switching on the one o’clock news, I felt compelled to leap out of the […]
by Campbell Martin The SNP’s landslide victory at the 2011 Scottish Parliament Election was remarkable, particularly when we consider that the whole electoral process was set-up to prevent such an outcome and no part of the mainstream media in Scotland supports independence. Of course, people were not voting for independence in May 2011, which meant […]
by Bill Bonnar It was an election marred by blatant vote rigging and corruption with the opposition crying foul. It was an election which lacked legitimacy in the eyes of much of the international community and among its Latin American neighbours. Not Venezuela but in nearby Paraguay which last week ‘elected’ the billionaire Horacio Cartes […]