Download FREE on iTunes or Podbean The death of a year of deaths… and we look at Liberty! It’s a bumper December episode… take your time, savour and reflect and then troll us on Twitter – where we are opening our Activists Advent… On this episode, themed around Liberty, we have the former guitarist with […]
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Mara Leverkuhn Articles
A slice of Class cake NEOLIBERALISM’S TOTALITARIAN COMING OUT IN WINTER HEIST ON ALL OUR FREEDOMS “FAKE NEWS” -propaganda churned by the Bernays school, owns your mind Romanian Protests – Disturbance-in-the-deep-force in the Deep Force?
Mara Leverkuhn
Far away in Oriental Europe, there was a castle and in that castle I was born. Confiscated by the communists at gun point, left to rot and turned into “social housing”. Hello, Romania. The glory of the event was unmatched by the land, as a black and white reality welcomed me–a tyranny that feared not […]
Battle of Backwater Bridge
The situation in North Dakota took a significantly more sinister turn on Sunday, as militarised security personnel began to attack unarmed water protectors with water cannon, tear gas, rubber bullets, and concussion grenades. In a move condemned by both the UN and Amnesty International, water cannon were deployed against unarmed peaceful protesters, including elders […]
Victoria Pearson Writing
News, Articles and Opinion Battle of Backwater Bridge Mayhem in England The Tories Go Full Fash GE17: The Brexit Distraction Judge Tories on their Record Foodbanks are for Life, not just for Christmas Universal Chaos V’s Fee, East Kilbride Yes, and Manels Justice For Terrell Free Jaggi Now Weaponising Fragility Women on Top? […]
Philip Kane Writing
Poetry From Letters To My Comrades I From Letters To My Comrades II From Letters To My Comrades III The King Is Mad Rat At the Beetle Supper
Allan Grogan Writing
News, Articles and Opinion Sleepwalking to the Abyss Where’s the Alternative Four Years Ago… Votes of No Confidence What does it take to cause change? Is democracy about false promises… or promises filled Scottish Leadership Debates? You’ve forced me to comment…
Looking Back
This piece originally appeared on Neil’S personal blog Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy, is a strange read and it is so for a number of reasons, not least being the fact that it was published in 1888 and is about the socialist utopia the writer envisages for the 20th century. In it he predicts […]
Sleepwalking to the Abyss
This piece originally appeared on Allan’s website 2016 has been some year so far. A year in which Scotland once again failed to qualify for an international football tournament and 2 months into the new qualifiers already look out of the next one. A year which every celebrity is wondering if they will […]
Fuad Alakbarov
Fuad Alakbarov is an Azerbaijani-Scottish political activist and human rights defender. He is known mainly for human rights advocacy for refugees, anti-racism and anti-poverty campaigns. Alakbarov is a columnist for the Mind Waves, a NHS-funded project which raises public awareness about mental health issues. He also covers refugee crisis, geopolitics and conflict worldwide for openDemocracy […]