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EU citizens must keep rights to vote after Brexit

January 8, 2017 by Mark Lazarowicz Leave a Comment

EU citizens must keep rights to vote after Brexit

Voting is a founding block of citizenship. Mark Lazarowicz urges UK and Scottish governments to make a clear declaration on maintaining legal rights of EU citizens to vote in devolved parliaments and local elections after Brexit.

Coming of age: 2017 as year of resistance

January 4, 2017 by Christopher Silver Leave a Comment

Coming of age: 2017 as year of resistance

“If 2016 was the year in which millennials realised that they had to confront the true reality of their meagre inheritance, 2017 must be a year in which resistance to authoritarian nationalism takes definite form. The awful questions that the past twelve months have posed can only be answered if we first understand this moment as a generational coming of age.”

Imagining a ‘progressive communitarianism’

December 19, 2016 by Justin Reynolds Leave a Comment

Imagining a ‘progressive communitarianism’

Communitarianism doesn’t have to be regressive: the pre-war origins of social democracy hold lessons for today’s left.

The triumph of Trumpocracy

November 9, 2016 by Bob Tait Leave a Comment

The triumph of Trumpocracy

Trump’s trriumph “portends the imminent destruction or disabling of the institutions on the Hill, both Senate and Congress, and the marginalisation – to the point of irrelevance or puppetry – of NGOs and institutions of civil society, including unions, that could provide advocacy and protection for many sections of the population.”

Mayism and the economics of nationalism

October 25, 2016 by Ewan Gibbs and Rory Scothorne 1 Comment

Mayism and the economics of nationalism

“It won’t work. May’s project will flounder. It cannot deliver the communitarian goals it strives for, and will damage Britain’s competitive position.” But: “In Scotland, things will keep going catastrophically nowhere.”

So what’s so bad about being a Trotskyist?

September 13, 2016 by Justin Reynolds 1 Comment

So what’s so bad about being a Trotskyist?

Though there is fierce disagreement about the extent of any Marxist revolutionary incursion into Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour there is less dispute – for both his supporters and opponents – that it is bad news. For most, it seems, Trotskyists are simply beyond the pale, distinguished by an unmistakeable whiff of sulphur. But why, exactly?

A resurgent Labour under Corbyn is good for Scotland

August 8, 2016 by Joseph Mellon 1 Comment

A resurgent Labour under Corbyn is good for Scotland

A SNP member here explains why he is backing Jeremy Corbyn for Labour’s leadership and thinks an alliance between the two parties and with the Greens is the right way forward and could be on the cards.

Roch Winds and the illusions of Civic Nationalism

July 29, 2016 by Justin Reynolds 2 Comments

Roch Winds and the illusions of Civic Nationalism

A review of a fine new book by three young writers that offers a much needed razor-sharp critique of Scotland’s emerging political monoculture.

Is Momentum a mob? No – this is what democracy looks like

July 27, 2016 by Jeremy Gilbert Leave a Comment

Is Momentum a mob? No – this is what democracy looks like

Jeremy Gilbert argues that a few unpleasant incidents are being highlighted to undermine a huge, peaceful, democratic movement.

Is Corbyn’s Labour a democratic centralist party?

July 26, 2016 by Colin Talbot Leave a Comment

Is Corbyn’s Labour a democratic centralist party?

In our continuing series on UK Labour the author examines whether Jeremy Corbyn plus/minus Momentum et al are turning Labour into a Leninist party treating MPs as representatives to be de-selected at will or does it remain wedded to representative parliamentary democracy and socialism?

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