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So 2020 is coming, that seems quite absurd to me. It’s the end of the decade and yet feels more impending than 1999 or 2012 did. Remember the millennium bug? Or the Mayan calendar prediction? Mind how afterwards there was the chat that there was no year 0 so really the end of the world […]
Val was brought up in the Garnock Valley in North Ayrshire before Thatcher and Co scalped it of its industry, and subsequently does not think that Ken Clarke talks sense by any stretch of the imagination. She had the dubious honour of being the first person in the family to go to university, but […]
News, Articles & Opinion Knapdale Beavers and Land Reform Your Country needs you! Hopeless Proper Equality for Women… Thrash ’em all… Who are “The Working Class” today? A Spoonful of Blood Inertia to the Left of me Zombies to the Right The Forgotten Say it Ain’t So, Jo The Homecoming Open Letter to an Undecided […]
It’s not easy to keep your head above water in these politically turbulent times, but do we have a choice? I’d say that we don’t. The future is not ours to give up on. We all have our low points though and for me the world really shifted on its axis on 7th November 2016, […]
I tried a thought experiment today. I tried to feel sorry for Theresa May. I tried to understand her as a woman and as a human being who has – by any reckoning – been through a torrid time, ending in very public humiliation. It wasn’t easy. Primarily, of course, it wasn’t easy because of […]
Why I can’t stand with ‘stand with’ Back in the day, when you wanted to show support for a cause, or for a person, you might march with or for them, you might join a protest for them, you might boycott something or someone on their behalf…you might do many things, but one thing you […]
April is an organiser at the National Union of Workers, Victoria, and former staffer to Scottish Labour MSP Malcolm Chisholm. She worked on the 2015 Corbyn leadership campaign and has worked with various campaign groups and think tanks, including Labour friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME), the Fabian Society where she was assistant […]
News, Articles, Reviews and Opinion Open letter from #ResistBrazil Scotland Trans visibility in Brazil Dam disaster in Brazil Brazil, Bolsonaro, Liberation Theology and the new attacks on the Church Colombia Attacks, Venezuela Brazil: Teacher Illegally Detained During Class by Police Áurea Carolina speaks out: “Brazil has become an even more threatening country for those who […]
Nathália Urban, is a Brazilian immigrant (not an expat) that lives in Scotland since 2014. Nathália learned the principles of feminism during the first years of her life thanks to her Grandma and her Great Aunties, and have always fought to have her voice heard, that’s why she studied social science and communications in Brazil. […]
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