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Bearsden South- bad news for Reform

By Indybag. ​So, the dust has settled on the Bearsden South by-election, and we’ve got the usual suspects patting themselves on the back while the rest of us stare at the numbers wondering how much longer the status quo can hold. Bearsden reform disaster ​The Liberal Democrats took it at Stage 5, which isn’t exactly […]

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ICE: A Waco Like Powderkeg

By Jock Mulligan The air is heavy with the scent of scorched earth and the pride of a man who thinks he is a god and we are looking at a powderkeg with the fuse already spluttering and the men holding the matches are wearing the badges of the federal department. They are heading straight […]

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Janis & Graham – Ungagged – People who really annoy us!

The SNP Socialists Co-Convenors, Janis Wilson and Graham Campbell discuss; Trump 2.0 (Davos, Dementia, Greenland, NATO Allies, Mark Carney, ICE), Keir Starmer, Anas Sarwar, Andy Burham. Plus the May elections including Your Party prospects. Recorded on Friday 23rd January 26. Producer & Editor – Neil Anderson Music: Roy Möller Scottish left, pro-Indy, pro-LGBTIQA Podcasts. Writing. […]

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ICE- The Black and Tans in Minneapolis.

By Jock Mulligan The tragic news of another man shot dead in the streets of Minneapolis by the ICE raiders of the department brings a cold blast of memory to anyone who knows the hard history of a people under the boot. It is the old tale of strangers sent in to police a folk […]

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A Letter to America: Kick the Gaum Out on his Fat Arse

by Jock Mulligan Listen now for the time of talk is over and the hour of the razor is come. We are not colloguing about some dusty chronicle or a lesson from the schoolbooks anymore. We are shouting into the wind about a clear and present peril that would wither the stoutest heart. Trump is […]

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A Vanguard of Pish: Why the SWP is a Political Cult of the Left to Avoid

Let’s be straight with each other—the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a bad actor. For decades, they’ve trailed around like the self-appointed high priests of the working class, but if you look at the wreckage they’ve left behind, especially here in Scotland, it’s clear their only real loyalty is to the survival of their own […]

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Fuck the Tech-bro-bosses: Read Tressell

Tressell’s masterpiece doesn’t need any high-tech polish; it’s a grit-under-the-fingernails account of how the working man is conned into his own poverty. If you want to understand why the “tech-bros” and the boardroom liquidators find it so easy to pull the wool over our eyes today, you have to go back to the source. The […]

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Janis & Graham – Ungagged! – 2026 – The Year of Hope

The SNP Socialists Co-Convenors, Janis Wilson and Graham Campbell discuss; Trump, the changing World, SNP Leader’s (John Swinney) Speech & the anniversary of the Brexit vote. Music: Roy Möller Scottish left, pro-Indy, pro-LGBTIQA Podcasts. Writing. Campaigns. Please join us- help us create a new, fair media-  https://ko-fi.com/ungagged Where to find Left Ungagged… Website Twitter (X) […]

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Venezuela: More Chicken-hawk posturing from Trump

By Richard Steigmann-Gall, Associate Professor of history at Kent State University, USA The overriding temptation on the left is to frame Trump’s criminality as another instance of Uncle Sam meddling in Latin American affairs. Big Continuity, which implicates all our imperial presidents since McKinley. I don’t think this fits Trump’s pattern, however. And this does […]

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Maduro: The Billionaires move in.

This morning, the third of January, the news arrived not through the slow deliberation of the courts, but through the sharp, sudden fact of American special forces – Nicolás Maduro, a man who had long inhabited the Miraflores Palace as though it were a fortress against time itself, was taken by US forces, on the […]