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Richie Venton Ungagged! S2 Ep 2 Reject the Filthy Rich, Filthy Racists!

Richie expands on last weeks episode and contextualises the far right organisations and the filthy rich people who instigated the recent riots into the wider history of the imperialist UK. 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 https://leftungagged.org/ […]

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Richie Venton Ungagged! – Season 2 Ep 1 – How to Organise against the Fascist Thugs.

Richie Venton Ungagged! – Season 2 Ep 1 – How to Organise against the Fascist Thugs. SSP Trades Union Organiser, Richie Venton on how to organise against the fascists and their leaders.  Also included in this podcast is Richie’s speech outside a hotel housing refugees.  The Paisley community organised the demo that ensured the fascist […]

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Tears, Fears and Electioneers…

by Damien Donnelly While I’m well used to elections being preceded by a period of desperate on-the-hoof policy, from all sides, this coming UK general election seems especially to have thrown into stark relief how low we have sunk as a country. Where that’s most evident is, as always, in how minorities are being treated. […]

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Good Riddance

Neil Scott on Theresa May’s last speech in the Commons. I’ve just watched as Theresa May made her last speech in Westminster (and Harriet Harman… and what a contrast… i’d urge you to find them on YouTube).   May’s narrative in her speech was one of hard work and of ambition- with barbed comments against those […]

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A Charter for Transphobes by Damien Donnelly

What we know for sure is, with soaring hate crime rates, especially transphobic ones, across the western world fuelled by relentlessly negative press and a government in thrall to a vocal minority of ‘gender criticals,’ the real danger is not from treating trans people the way they wish to be treated. The conclusion of the […]

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Autoimmunity Within the Independence Movement

The obstacles to our independence are not all about media-led rabid unionism, or floating voters. We have a problem within the movement, something really toxic. It resembles a kind of auto-immune disease, a drive to eat away at the host and make barren the soil it depends on; the movement itself.  The dreaded anniversary of […]

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A Stiff Kicking into the Long Grass by Val Waldron

Voters for Forbes or Regan were aware that GRR would be kicked into the long grass, serving as precedent for a power grab at any piece of legislation deemed unpopular    I never found it particularly difficult to understand why the Red Wall had fallen to the Tories in 2019. We’ve been living under the […]