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By Gael The air in our communities is thick with a justifiable, burning anger. After decades of a Westminster-driven economic squeeze, people are searching for a way to strike back at a system that treats them like an afterthought. Into this landscape of genuine hardship step the charlatans of Reform UK, led by Richard Tice […]
Jock Mulligan on Mandelson. The long and the winding road of Peter Mandelson’s political career has reached a bitter and a shameful end. At fughing last. For a man who twice walked away from the high table with the whiff of the backstairs deal hanging about him, these new tales from the Epstein papers have […]
I’ve sat in draughty community halls from Easterhouse to Maryhill for thirty years, and I’ve seen some shit in my time. I’ve seen the “vanguard” cults try to hijack local strikes and the middle-class “missionaries” come into our schemes to lecture us on solidarity before jumping into a taxi back to their Bearsden bungalows and […]
By Indybag. So, the dust has settled on the Bearsden South by-election, and we’ve got the usual suspects patting themselves on the back while the rest of us stare at the numbers wondering how much longer the status quo can hold. Bearsden reform disaster The Liberal Democrats took it at Stage 5, which isn’t exactly […]
By Jock Mulligan The air is heavy with the scent of scorched earth and the pride of a man who thinks he is a god and we are looking at a powderkeg with the fuse already spluttering and the men holding the matches are wearing the badges of the federal department. They are heading straight […]
By Jock Mulligan The tragic news of another man shot dead in the streets of Minneapolis by the ICE raiders of the department brings a cold blast of memory to anyone who knows the hard history of a people under the boot. It is the old tale of strangers sent in to police a folk […]
by Jock Mulligan Listen now for the time of talk is over and the hour of the razor is come. We are not colloguing about some dusty chronicle or a lesson from the schoolbooks anymore. We are shouting into the wind about a clear and present peril that would wither the stoutest heart. Trump is […]
Let’s be straight with each other—the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a bad actor. For decades, they’ve trailed around like the self-appointed high priests of the working class, but if you look at the wreckage they’ve left behind, especially here in Scotland, it’s clear their only real loyalty is to the survival of their own […]
Tressell’s masterpiece doesn’t need any high-tech polish; it’s a grit-under-the-fingernails account of how the working man is conned into his own poverty. If you want to understand why the “tech-bros” and the boardroom liquidators find it so easy to pull the wool over our eyes today, you have to go back to the source. The […]
By Richard Steigmann-Gall, Associate Professor of history at Kent State University, USA The overriding temptation on the left is to frame Trump’s criminality as another instance of Uncle Sam meddling in Latin American affairs. Big Continuity, which implicates all our imperial presidents since McKinley. I don’t think this fits Trump’s pattern, however. And this does […]