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Gerry Mooney

About Gerry Mooney

Gerry Mooney is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology at The Open University

George Square 1919: no real revolutionary threat?

January 31, 2019 by Gerry Mooney Leave a Comment

‘Yet while many continue to play up the revolutionary aspect today, there is no evidence it was anything more than a legitimate demonstration.’

Tests for Scotland’s anti-austerity credentials

June 2, 2015 by Gerry Mooney Leave a Comment

As with their counterparts in other parts of the UK and beyond, Scotland’s public-sector workers are more and more sceptical about the willingness of the SNP to go beyond mere rhetoric. Following the experience of Scottish Labour, the risk is that this costs the nationalists much of their support as early as next May at the Scottish parliament elections.

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