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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
There is a particular kind of irony, one both thick and uncomfortably sharp, in witnessing the presenters of GB News gather to lend their voices to the verses of Robert Burns. To watch those who have built a platform upon the sturdy bricks of British exceptionalism and the preservation of traditional hierarchies singing “Auld Lang […]
By Jock Mulligan I see the prolific Gael and others have recently been banging on this drum too. But I can’t fughing well stress hard enough how much my friends and comrades need to get to grips to understand the massive attack we are under from the device in our pockets. The device we pull […]