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The Fiction of Modernity
By Sam Hamad People are rioting in Paris because no one can afford anything. It’s a generation of people locked out of functional life (relatively speaking). And it’s getting worse and worse and worse. The entire point about liberal democracy and late modernity is that it had to adapt in many ways they could not […]
Richie Venton: Was Burnham’s Speech ACTUALLY Socialist?
Richie Venton, National Trade Union Organizer for the Scottish Socialist Party, analyzes Andy Burnham’s Labour government and incoming Chancellor John Healey’s fiscal plans. For quick access to new podcasts, search for Ungagged! on your podcast provider. All Ungagged Podcasts are available HERE. You can also find our podcasts on Podbean, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
Richie Venton: Glasgow City Council’s Fire-and-Rehire Disgrace
Richie Venton on Worker Solidarity and Equal Pay. Over 23,000 workers in Glasgow City Council received emails on September 24 informing them of potential dismissal and rehire under terms dictated by the employer. In 2006, a Labour-run council introduced a pay and benefits review that led to rampant wage discrimination against women workers, costing millions […]
Scottish Anti-Fascists, Unite!
By Indybag Fascists are in Government in Germany. Allow that to sink in. Fascists are rallying in the UK- their conferences are attracting big business. Fascists are sporadically rampaging through our city streets. The left need to help fight back. Socialism is LESS likely- and will be a very dangerous outlook to have – in […]
Farage’s Toff: James Orr- fund raiser for the far right.
James Orr is a far right, Class Warrior for the rich. John Medhurst traces his career. Because the UK’s fearless media probably won’t report much on this guy beyond that James Orr is/was “Farage’s chief policy advisor”, which is to say Reform’s Head of Policy, and that he liked the sound of easy cash that […]
The butcher of Srebrenica Died- and the organised Left Said Nothing…
By John Davies Ratko Mladic died yesterday, the butcher of Srebrenica and too many other places to mention. I’ve looked on Facebook and not seen a single comment. I don’t know why this is, but I felt I couldn’t let it pass. Bosnia, of which I had previously barely heard, played a big part in […]
The Draining of Scotland: Data Centres, Buried Reports, and the Nature’s Rights Bill
​They’re draining our oil- the next capitalist goal is to crush Scottish Independence for our water… Would you support giving nature legal rights to fight back against data centres in court? It sounds like a radical idea, but when you look at how the Westminster establishment is selling off our basic resources to tech billionaires, […]
The School Meeting Misplaced Brene Brown Quote
By our Education Correspondent. When summer ends, its time for inservices… another meeting, another PowerPoint. The senior management team stands at the front of the staff room, clicking through slides filled with “inspirational” Brene Brown quotes about daring to lead and leaning into vulnerability. It is hard to feel vulnerable when mid November, the leaking […]
Stop the conspiracies – Israel is bad enough
By Sam Hamad Israel is provably and demonstrably a state of genocide, occupation, expansion, mass rape, mass torture, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, slaughter and ultra-chauvinism. There’s like a million actual things the Israeli entity has done, and is literally doing as I speak, that one could use to prove all this stuff, if it needed any […]