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SNP Conference is an Opportunity to Pursue Bolder Politics – Simon Barrow

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Simon Barrow is Secretary of the Trade Union Group and sits on the SNP’s Policy Development Committee With a dangerously failing Westminster government, deep frustration among a broad swathe of people in Scotland about cost-of-living issues, and the far-right looking to make electoral inroads on the back of discontent, it is quite clear that the SNP […]

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Recognising Interactions Between Global Challenges Can Bring Us Together. – Paul Rodgers

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Paul Rodgers is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. This article condenses arguments developed in The Insecurity Trap: A Short Guide to Transformation. More than fifty years ago, the economic geographer Edwin Brooks warned of the risk of a “crowded glowering planet of massive inequalities of wealth  buttressed by stark force yet

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Refugee Solidarity Needed Now More Than Ever – Allison Thewliss

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Alison Thewliss is the Glasgow Central Candidate and a former SNP MP All through the story the immigrants came The Gael and the Pict, the Angle and Dane From Pakistan, England and from the Ukraine We’re all Scotland’s story and we’re all worth the same Your Scotland’s story is worth just the same  We have a good conceit of ourselves

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Labour Government is CHOOSING to Keep People in Poverty – Emma Roddick

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Emma Roddick is MSP for Highlands & Islands and served as Minister for Equalities The welfare system tells you everything you need to know about a government. It’s more than a line in a budget, but the size of that line tells you where our true priorities lie: do we leave folk to fend for themselves,

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Restorative Climate Justice – With or Without “System Change”? – Roland Chaplain

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Roland Chaplain is the Climate & Environment Officer of SNP Socialists The dilemma facing all governments is how to pay for eliminating poverty and tackling climate change when trapped into an economic system designed to exacerbate both of these. The trap is one that forces governments to look for economic growth irrespective of whether what is

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The Wellbeing Economy: A Vision for Scotland – Philippa Whitford

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I’m often asked to give talks on ‘Health’ by which people usually mean the NHS. However, the NHS doesn’t create health, it helps to manage and control illness. It could more accurately be called the National Illness Service but that would sound far too dismal. Rather, good health is influenced significantly by factors outwith the

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It’s Your Party and We’ll Cry if We Want To – Graham Campbell

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Graham Campbell is a Glasgow Councillor, Chair of the SNP BAME Network &  Co-Convener of SNP Socialists. This article has been rewritten several times such have been the dramatic twists and turns in the short lifetime of the temporarily named Your Party (YP). As an SNP councillor, a decades long Independence activist and Co-Convener of SNP Socialists,

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