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By Jock Mulligan A chairdean, let us look through the mist of Westminster’s “democracy” to see the machinery of capital and empire at work. These reports from Scottish paper, The National expose a predictable reality: the British state is a playground for foreign capital and state-sponsored lobbying, while it simultaneously weaponizes “national security” to cast […]
To read the initial critique of Scottish pro-Palestinian activism that Kevin McKenna has had published in an increasingly desperate Glasgow Herald, is to encounter a portrait sketched in stark caricature: a world where political dissent is merely the affectation of the wealthy, and solidarity a “Brucie Bonus” for the bored bourgeoisie. Yet, history – and […]
Indybag: The Myth of Left Unity: Why Toxic Gatekeepers are the Disease, Not the Cure The chatter is everywhere, even now, as the new “Your Party” conference dominates the headlines. For decades, every time the left has been smashed by the establishment, the same tired delusion resurfaces: “If only we could all just unite!” We’re […]
The SNP Socialists Co-Convenors, Janis Wilson and Graham Campbell discuss; SNP Conference, rise of socialism via Green Party of E&W and Zohran Mamdani in New York and the STUC St Andrew’s Day March on 29th Nov (25). Music: Roy Möller Scottish left, pro-Indy, pro-LGBTIQA Podcasts. Writing. Campaigns. Please join us- help us create a […]
By Jock Mulligan John Gray. The man with the brain the size of a planet and the outlook of a particularly thoughtful grave-digger. He’s the anti-utopian prophet, the constant Cassandra who shouts about the failure of progress while we’re busy texting on our new smart devices. He’s brilliant at diagnosis, but when he touches prescription, […]
By our Political Correspondent The Scottish Yes Parties have issued blistering warnings that Labour’s increasingly harsh rhetoric on immigration, refugees, and asylum is doing nothing but fuelling a dangerous lurch to the right in Westminster, directly benefiting the far-right agenda of Nigel Farage. The SNP, Scottish Greens and SSP have reiterated that instead of tackling […]
By Ungagged Political Correspondent Wes Streeting, the Labour Health Secretary, is facing intense scrutiny over reports that he has accepted significant donations from individuals and companies linked to the private healthcare sector, with figures reaching over £200,000. Critics argue that these financial ties undermine his commitment to the core principles of the National Health Service […]
By Jock Mulligan How can the rigorous moral architecture of the ancient Celts relate to today’s politics? Well, we can learn from folk history; much of it is a blueprint for a disciplined, ethical politics of its time- and let me suggest, the Left, especially in places like Scotland and Ireland, where the ghosts of […]
Kathy O’Connor on Mamdani’s victory. It is an occupational hazard for anyone interested in American politics to become overwhelmed by rhetoric. The national conversation is so often conducted in italics and capital letters—TREASON, LOW-IQ, DEEP STATE—that the essential banality of governance, the stuff that determines whether your rent goes up or your subway runs on […]
As swathes of English people are fooled into flag wars, and Americans are being groomed to hate oil rich Venezuela, Karen Orr explores the history of the working class dying for billionaires… The history of conflict is not the grand narrative of kings and causes taught in schools; it is, at its core, a sordid […]