MayDay!

By Kate Higgins Most of us are waking leisurely to the prospect of a day aff. If we’re really lucky we’ll get the weather to do something nice. It’s the Continue reading →

Why It’s (Still) Kicking Off Everywhere

By Paul Mason Two years on from the Arab Spring, I’m clearer about what it was that it inaugurated: it is a revolution. In some ways it parallels the revolutions Continue reading →

The Terror of Capitalism

By VIJAY PRAHAD (dedicated to Alex Massie) On Wednesday, April 24, a day after Bangladeshi authorities asked the owners to evacuate their garment factory that employed almost three thousand workers, Continue reading →

Osborne’s Toxic Legacy

By Jonathon Shafi When you hear the word ‘deficit’ the first thing that springs to mind is the so called ‘budget deficit’. So called, because many of us are ‘deficit Continue reading →

On the Road

By Gregor Gall Seven years ago, the Scottish Left Review Press (SLRP) published the original Is There a Scottish Road to Socialism? Its purpose was to examine how a road Continue reading →

The Death of Hugo Chavez

The Death of Hugo Chavez By Callum McCormick The announcement of the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez provides an opportunity for us to look back on the most important Continue reading →

Just Say Yes

By Cat Boyd With the publication yesterday of Yes Scotland’s response to the STUC’s “Just Scotland” paper, the question is raised again – what would trade unionism look like in Continue reading →

RBS? C’est la merde!

The banks and the bankers have not only devastated the economy, they’ve devastated the English language…

The Reign in Spain

As British bankers criminality under Libor is laid bare Douglas Wilson looks at endemic Spanish corruption. There are so many corruption scandals going on in Spain at present it is Continue reading →

Hope is the Rejection of the Status Quo

By Mike Small Here’s the text from Saturday’s Radical Independence Conference #RIC2012 with some of the follow-up responses. I want to talk briefly about how we shift from thinking and Continue reading →

Rising prices, the secret report, and the black black oil

by Joan McAlpine Can we really be threatened with yet another pump price rise from the Westminster government? We already pay the highest fuel and heating bills in Europe – Continue reading →

This Little Piggy

By Ian Brotherhood Unless you have a strong stomach you may want to avoid what follows. Seriously. No-one likes stubbing a toe. Anyone who has ever suffered a dislocated or Continue reading →

Scotland Unchained

By Mike Small People quite rightly point out that a Yes or a No vote shouldn’t be cast solely on the exquisitely attractive option of permanently ridding this country of Continue reading →

Debtris

This is for those of you who think our current priorities are immoral (I’m with Hazel Henderson ‘Economics is a form of brain damage’) … or those of you not Continue reading →

Korea Suicide

A Letter from Pyongyang …

A Land of Possibility

By John McAllion Between now and the referendum scheduled for the autumn of 2014, the question of Scottish independence will take centre stage in British politics. For the next two Continue reading →

Pedagogy of the Connected

By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad In Amusing Ourselves to Death, a prophetic work on the impact of television on culture, the late media scholar Neil Postman compared two dystopias. One was George Continue reading →

Payday Loans: The Scottish Parliament Must Act

By Alan McIntosh Pay day lending is a dangerous business. There are no doubts about it. It preys on the needs of the vulnerable that have been created by failure: Continue reading →

The Dark Side of the Green Economy

By Jeff Conant Why some indigenous groups and environmentalists are saying no to the “green economy.” Everywhere you look these days, things are turning green. In Chiapas, Mexico, indigenous farmers Continue reading →

Lost

By Mike Small Gordon Asher and Leigh French’s ‘Crisis Capitalism and Independence Doctrines’ is a critique of the independence movement seen as one that is reformist and shallow in it’s Continue reading →

Communiqué: A World in Crisis, A Media Silent

Science And The Sixth Of August

By Michael Greenwell I got up early this morning to watch what, from every angle you look at it, was a triumph. However, I am not going to say it Continue reading →

Forms of Protest 1

Part one of a new Bella series looking at innovation and forms of protest. Crowdsourcing ideas for the independence movement and exploring social media and social change. First up: Casseroles, Continue reading →

From The Province Of The Cat 6: Mussolini’s Olympics

by George Gunn The future of Scottish politics, the future of our little country, is like an un-spliced rope blowing flayed in the wind. It would take a rope worker of Continue reading →

Once Again We Will Be Left

By Robin McAlpine “All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. Continue reading →

Banking and a New Deal for Scotland

By Joe Necchhi “An epitaph for an age of irresponsibility symptomatic of a financial system that elevated greed above all other concerns and brought our economy to its knees“. – Continue reading →

Catastroika

The Socialist Case for Yes

Gregor Gall outlines the socialist case for independence…

JACK**** Republican Party

As the trickle of Unionist propaganda turns into a Union Jacktastic torrent – take refuge in Edinburgh’s (Scotland’s!) finest book shop…with Ewan McVicar, Lorna Waite and pals… Word Power Books Continue reading →

Rebel Cities

“David Harvey provoked a revolution in his field and has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals.” – Naomi Klein Ewan Mcdonald reviews David Harvey’s new book ‘Rebel Cities: From the Continue reading →