A few thoughts on the idea of a new political party of the Left and the state of  Scottish and British politics in light of discussions over the past few days. First, the need for a Left socialist ...

Having previously noted the Scotsman’s enthusiasm for greenwashing, astroturfing and new nuclear [Who are Britain Remade? – ...

Allan Armstrong is a retired teacher, who was active as a convenor of Scottish Rank & File Teachers and the Scottish Socialist Teachers Federation. Ne was an EIS school rep, Local Executive and ...

Now we are left with, what? ‘Involuntary Union’ – ‘A Union You Cannot Leave’. It’s not really a great position to win over hearts and minds, is it? Welcome to Hotel Caledonia. As the Eagles had it: ...

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We know from the Spycops Scandal that this has a deep history. We now know that a body called the SPL (Subversion in Public Life) was established in the 1980s comprising senior civil servants, MI5 and ...

Protestors held a “Festival of Death” at Edinburgh Labour MP Ian Murray’s office on Saturday 31st May to oppose the UK government’s cuts to disability benefits. Demonstrators plastered the office of ...

The UK Strategic Defence Review 2025, published on the publications page of the www.gov.uk website on the 2nd June, is sub-headed ‘secure at home and strong abroad’. In this so-called defence review, ...

Nuclear sharing of this nature is outlawed by the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT)* which the UK has signed, declared it is committed to, and regularly restates its commitment to. The UK was one ...

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