Like many people around the world, I am still reeling in shock from the decision by the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to rule that the right of people who can become pregnant to get an abortion was struck down.
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The UK Episode 2022
Anonopunk on the UK.
Financial Penalties Restrict the Development of the Scottish Renewables Sector
As we all face into an ever-worsening cost of living crisis there is no shortage of suggestions from opposition parties as to what the government could and should be doing to alleviate the worst affects for the most vulnerable in society. When the question comes round to how we pay for measures to help the […]
Escape Routes by Val Waldron
We are finally getting to grips with the solid fact of the matter: 2014 cannot be repeated. We need to find another way, or ways to move forward towards independence. On the day of the full release of the Sue Gray report and of Nicola Sturgeon’s marking point as longest serving FM I’ve never been […]
Opinion: Ukraine Whataboutery
Some on the left are blinded by old, cold War allegiances, beliefs and sectional thinking.
Caring for All
Common Weal Launches ‘Caring for All’ – a Blueprint for a Real National Care Service in Scotland…
The Digital Picket, Covid-19, & Unending Precarity
This week, members of the University and College Union (U.C.U.) commenced our latest wave of industrial action, involving ten strike days spread across the next three weeks, encompassing two distinct but deeply interconnected campaigns.
Jimmy Carr and ‘the Acceptable Face of Racism’
The recent public spotlight on so called ‘dark comedian’ Jimmy Carr’s extreme racist comment about Gypsies (their mass murder apparently being the only aspect of the Holocaust the Nazis got right), is just the latest mining of a deep vein of historical and persistent discrimination concerning Romanies and Gypsy Travellers.
A Whole Lot of Wind
Guy Ingerson on the benefits of the leasing of Crown estates for green energy production, and some of the responses from the left.
Call it Out!
Drink Spiking, rape culture and other harmful normalisation of misogyny… by Mhairi Hunter On October 22, MP Kirsty Blackman published a letter of complaint she had sent to the Evening Express newspaper about an opinion column they had published on drink spiking. The article was appalling and suggested that “We must not understate the seriousness […]