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With the benefit of hindsight: ‘Scottish Independence and the British state ten years on’

Ten years on from the Scottish independence referendum – a report of a Conter conference held on 14 September 2024

Glasgow against fascism: a report on 7th September and thoughts on next steps

Tactical considerations for the antifascist movement in Glasgow.

Grangemouth – the fight for jobs and climate justice

INEOS’s plans to close Scotland’s only petrol refinery at Grangemouth represent a critical test for both unions and climate campaigners.

Cost of greed crisis still hitting Edinburgh

A community worker in Edinburgh surveys the inequality in their city.

birds eye view of a court, John Swinney in center

Where now for the SNP?

Predictions on what Swinney has in store

Protesters try to de-arrest someone from a police van outside Thales in Glasgow.

The shift in Glasgow and how we fight back

What to make of new violence against the Palestine solidarity movement?

Climate failure sparks SNP crisis

Pete Cannell looks at how the gulf between the SNP’s rhetoric and climate policies that relied on partnership with the oil and gas industry sparked a crisis.

climate activists march toward the refinery

Climate Camp Scotland 2023

INEOS got the climate camp treatment. rs21 climate activists report.

Image is a close-up of a crowd holding a variety of union flags including PCS and RMT, with placards saying "Protect our right to strike" and "Defend the Right to Strike". The people in the shot apear diverse in age, gender and race. In the centre of the shot, a person in a yellow shirt with the word 'RESIST' on it raises their left fist.

‘Lack and longing’: an interview with Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever

Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever answer questions about race, nation, working class struggle and the breakdown of Britain’s democratic settlement.

a collection of people holding placards saying 'I Love my trans grandkids', and other messages of trans support.

What next for the Gender Recognition Reform Bill?

Sara Bennett shows the GRR Bill as a pawn for both Tories and Sturgeon.

Fighting fascists in Erskine

Fascists have been organising weekly demonstrations in a small Scottish town – we explain who they are and how antifascists are organising to beat them.

3 young people with saltires painted on their faces stand in front of a banner reading Make Trident History.

Scotland after Sturgeon

What are the prospects for Scottish independence now Sturgeon has stepped down?

No more divide and rule – fight for trans rights!

Trans activist and rs21 member Leslie Cunningham exposes the lies and hypocrisy behind the Tory attack on trans rights and democracy in Scotland.

Towards a truly radical Scottish independence movement

Jim Ritchie reviews Scotland After Britain, a new book on the Scottish independence movement.

Glasgow strike support rally

Jim Ritchie reports on a large and enthusiastic strike support rally in Glasgow

People with banners at the rally

Spreading strikes rally support in Edinburgh

Comedians, housing campaigners, unions and climate groups joined the protest.

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Climate Camp Scotland unites climate, migrant and workers’ struggles

Climate Camp Scotland saw hundreds of climate and community activists gather to discuss the practice and theory of fighting for climate justice.

The power to change the system

With COP26 just around the corner, a wave of industrial action in Scotland is demonstrating the huge opportunity of linking workers’ struggle with climate organising.

Protestors at a rally against developing the Cambo oil field, holding placards and a banner reading 'stop cambo'

Stop Cambo

Pete Cannell, an activist in Scottish environmental group Scot.E3, looks at the political significance of the growing campaign to prevent the development of new oil and gas fields in the North Sea

View over Leith and the Firth of Forth.

The problem of independence

While a range of neoliberal and reactionary politics threatens to dominate the Scottish independence movement, Marcus Docherty argues that the influence of right wing leaders is not the only problem for socialists.

graffiti in Holyrood Park, near the Scottish Parliament showing a heart transgender symbol

No more ‘delays’ to trans rights: reform the GRA now!

Scotland-based rs21 member Leslie Cunningham argues we should all be fighting in the struggle for trans rights, and asks: why the delays to reforming the Gender Recognition Act?

Sketch of a raised fist.

Alba is a dead end

None of the main pro-independence parliamentary parties are capable of delivering an independent Scotland that puts the needs of working-class people first.

An image showing a snowy street in Govanhill, Glasgow.

Govanhill: ghettoisation and exploitation in modern Glasgow

Slum housing, hyper-exploitation and racist demagoguery are alive and kicking in the Scotland of 2021 – along with the basis for internationalist solidarity and resistance.

A pro-independence rally in Glasgow, January 2020.

Scotland, the left and independence

If the British state breaks up, will Scottish independence be a serious progressive change, or just a neoliberal reshuffle?

Scotland: education workers move towards strike action

Workers at all levels of Scotland’s education system are preparing to fight for workplace safety and job security.

Keywords: fascism far right wing nationalism Brexit

Video: Confronting the British state

Three activists speak on the Scottish independence movement, the Tory Party’s right-wing populist strategy, and the political role of migrant solidarity.

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Post-war to post-industrial Scotland

Successive British governments have restructured the Scottish economy in damaging ways. Now we need a radical plan for a de-carbonised and independent Scotland.

Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the future of Trident

On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Eileen Cook highlights the danger of Trident remaining in Scotland.

Nicola Sturgeon Pres Release. Stay Safe.

Reaching a Zero-Covid Scotland

There is now a real opportunity for elimination of Covid-19 in Scotland, but the Scottish government cannot be relied upon to ensure that it happens.

Anti-racists reclaim Glasgow

Over the past fortnight Glasgow has become a flash point in the fight against the far right, demonstrating the inherent link between British Unionism and white supremacy.