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"I stand in the Gorbals and before the world as a Bolshevik, alias a Communist, alias a revolutionary, alias a Marxist. My symbol is the red flag, and I shall always keep it flying high." John Maclean's Election Address, 1922

Supporting Scottish independence doesn’t mean falling for nationalist myths. Raymie Kiernan looks at a new book that busts Salmond’s claims about class

There have been few demands in the independence debate for far-reaching wealth redistribution. Class divisions are being overlooked in competing claims to “Scottishness” and other supposedly national characteristics. 

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Up to 700 protested at the Scottish Tory Party conference in Edinburgh last Saturday. Marchers included anti bedroom tax groups, trade unionists, students and campaigners both for and against Scottish independence.

Is Socialist Worker right to argue for a Yes vote? Two Labour Party members in Scotland, Vince Mills and Bob Thomson, debate how the left should vote in September’s poll

The battle over Scottish independence is heating up especially with signs the polls may be narrowing

Two events last month indicate the growing importance of socialist ideas and the working class vote within the independence debate. In Kirkcaldy, Fife, Tommy Sheridan, the former Socialist MSP, spoke to a meeting of over 200. In the space of a few weeks the video of the meeting has clocked up over 74,000 views (and...

Calls for a new social democracy in Scotland where workers and bosses cooperate ignores the reality of a class society

MPs’ rows over Scottish independence focus on helping the bosses, writes Raymie Kiernan

When you take on the bullies, they turn out to be cowards. That’s the lesson from a successful strike at Edinburgh College.

The row over a currency union between a future independent Scotland and what’s left of the British state created much media noise last week.