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A company owned by Labour-run Glasgow city council has used Tory anti-union laws to stop a strike.

Around 800 people attended the Festival of the Common Weal in Glasgow on Sunday of last week.

Protesters turned a planned national roadshow by Britain First into a disaster for the fascists last weekend.

A sense of panic had begun to grip the British establishment as the break up of the United Kingdom looms as a possibility. A sense of panic had begun to grip the British establishment as the break up of the United Kingdom looms as a possibility. Socialists should support the dissolution of a key imperialist state and that the left has been able to shape the independence campaign. argues socialists should support the dissolution of a key imperialist state and that the left has been able to shape the independence campaign.

The prominent Scottish socialist has been speaking to packed meetings across Scotland as part of his Hope Over Fear tour. Here we print extracts from a speech he gave in Paisley in late June.

Poverty in Scotland 2014 is not only the title of the latest book published by a coalition of poverty groups but also the daily reality for over 280,000 Scottish workers. With the possibility of independence coming closer, debates over the efficiency and ideology of the welfare state have become central to both the Yes and...

Barnet | Kirlees | Scotland

Anger at increasing workloads dominated the annual conference of the EIS, Scotland’s biggest education union, in Perth last week.

The Radical Case for Scottish Independence covers a wide range of topics including the rise of neoliberalism in Scotland, mainstream parties, British nationalism, and Yes Scotland’s and Better Together’s respective referendum strategies. The authors are leading activists in the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) which attempts to fight for a radical vision for independence. The book...

Tommy Sheridan says independence can be the basis for radical change, writes Raymie Kiernan

Some 180 people packed into Keir Hardie Primary School in Newarthill near Motherwell to hear Tommy Sheridan speak on independence last week.

Dave Sherry's book John MacLean: Red Clydesider has recently been republished by Bookmarks. Here we print an abridged version of the new introduction which looks at the importance of Maclean in the context of the debate about Scottish independence.