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, by PICKEN Mike
Across the British state, writes Mike Picken, there is a growing opposition to the Conservative UK government’s unprecedented blocking of a Scottish Parliament legislative Bill on transgender rights passed last month – the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.
After weeks of misleading (...)
, by Rape Crisis Scotland
This week, the UK government announced their intention to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which was recently passed overwhelmingly in the Scottish Parliament, from becoming law. We, the undersigned, wish to make clear our strong opposition to this intervention and to any (...)
, by GOODSPEED Ray
Trans rights campaigners and their allies throughout the labour movement were delighted to receive a present before the Christmas holidays start – and a very welcome present it is, at a time of increasingly fierce attacks on trans people in the mainstream and social media, and a marked increase (...)
, by BROOKS Libby
Self-isolation of vaccinated medical staff could be one area to review, doctor suggests.
The Scottish government has days to act to relieve “very high pressure” on healthcare, according to the chair of BMA Scotland, after a second health board flagged acute workforce pressures as a result of (...)
, by SALIH Roza
Anyone can do what we did. Community action is the key to challenging the UK’s brutal system
I was at work on Thursday morning when I got the call from a friend over in Pollokshields, on the south side of Glasgow: “It’s the Home Office, they’re trying to detain asylum seekers. Get down here.” (...)
, by ARMSTRONG Allan
To date articles in Conter addressing Brexit have concentrated more on the neo-liberal opposition, and those on the Left perceived to be tail-ending this section of the British ruling class, writes Allan Armstrong of the Radical Independence Campaign . [[This article by Allan Armstrong of the (...)
, by WILKINSON Ruth
Yesterday, on Wednesday 25 September, Holyrood passed the new Climate Bill for Scotland. It’s much more ambitious than it was when it was first proposed – but it doesn’t do enough to address the climate emergency.
The Scottish people won’t tolerate inaction
There’s a lot for activists to feel (...)
, by BRODER David
The general election marked a setback for the Scottish National Party. Is the independence dream dead?
Coming the day after the Scottish independence referendum, September 19, 2014, was a rather different election hangover from June 9, 2017. Three years ago, the young and forgotten used a (...)
, by BONNAR Bill
Britain is a capitalist country operating within the EU. If Britain decides to withdraw from the EU it will still be a capitalist country. The principle aim of the left is to transform Britain from capitalism to socialism. This may seem a moot point but there is a point to this moot point. For (...)
, by SMITH Murray
The day after the May 7 election, George Kerevan, newly elected SNP MP for East Lothian, was walking through his constituency. He was approached by a group of young working-class women who recognized him, proudly declared that they had all voted SNP and wanted to take “selfies” with him. When (...)
, by DAVIDSON Neil
The British state and its party structures are in crisis. What new forms of political expressions has the Scottish referendum brought into play? This article examines the social and political forces behind 2014.
If, in 2011, you had asked members of the radical left to identify a sequence of (...)
, by SMITH Murray
After a campaign that lasted two years, Scotland voted on September 18, for or against independence, yes or no. And it was the No that carried the day, by a majority of 55 per cent to 45 per cent. So it was a victory for the British political establishment and a defeat for the forces of (...)
, by THORNETT Alan
The proposal for an independent Scotland has been defeated in the referendum and the ruling elites have expressed a huge collective sigh of relief. It was a defeat based on fear and intimidation organised by the No campaign in collusion with Downing Street which delivered a “no” vote by a margin (...)
, by ASCHERSON Neal
Neal Ascherson examines the new landscape of Scottish politics.
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At first I thought: nothing’s changed here, nothing’s going to change. I spent part of my childhood in Greenock, and came back in 1999 to stand in next-door Port Glasgow as a candidate in (...)
, by McCombes Alan, MILLER Alex
In the May 3 elections to the Scottish parliament, the Scottish National Party (SNP) won 47 seats out of a total of 129 — a rise of 20 seats compared to the 2003 election. Labour lost four seats, emerging with a total of 46; the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats lost one seat apiece, winning (...)
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