Is John Swinney’s plan for “public control” of Scotland’s buses real progress, or just a state-subsidized bailout for private profiteers? Listen now to find out what’s really happening behind the headlines!
Democracy
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.
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 […]
Rinse and Repeat against Racism by Val Waldron
The quote attributed to Mark Twain ‘History does not repeat itself but it often rhymes’ allows us to see the parallels between the 60’s and 70s and today but accept and analyse the differences. We can rewrite history. We have to. On the day that Glasgow Film Theatre showed the 2019 Rock against Racism documentary […]
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, […]
Resist Hate Episode 2.
Two brilliant essays from different perspectives on the question of how do we interact with the current political far right cosplays in our parliaments and on our streets? Ray, an academic and activist explains the current ground we find ourselves on, suggests networks we can get involved with, and how we meet the threat of […]
We Are Many by Val Waldron
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. At the time of writing the polls are barely open, but by the end of the Summer it’s quite likely, according to polls and pundits, that Burnham will be PM. If Successful in Makerfield today, every indication is that he will be putting his shoulder to the […]
New series: Resist Hate!
How do we counter and defeat the encroaching fascism, Reform , Restore and the massive swing towards illiberalism across the UK, and indeed the world? This series of podcasts is about giving you -us – ideas of how we can act in order to halt the current fall into hatred, intolerance, division and pogrom and […]
No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs: They’ve ALWAYS wanted us to fight sideways.
By Amy McIntyre We know our history. The Irish were blamed for problems they didn’t cause. They fled “famine”, occupation, persecution & poverty, only to face signs reading: “No Blacks. No Dogs. No Irish.” Don’t repeat that. The ruling class always need a scapegoat. Yesterday it was the Irish, Catholics, Mods, Pakistanis, single mothers, “benefit […]