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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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Scotland’s Democracy Needs Women: Why Heightened Women’s Departure From Politics Threatens Scottish Democracy

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Fatima Joji is an Aberdeenshire councillor and is on the NEC of Women for Independence. She has a background in journalism. Departure from Politics Threatens Scottish Democracy In the lead-up to the 2026 Holyrood election, a concerning number of women have announced their intention to step down from politics. While this trend presents an obvious threat

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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 SNP Must Win In 2026 to Keep Indy Momentum – Tommy Sheppard

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Tommy Sheppard is a former MP. He served as shadow leader of the house of commons. Elections matter. They are real world events with serious consequences. The results legitimise the arguments put forward by the protagonists – or not. They lead to the holding of executive power, the power to changes lives. Our next election is

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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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The Rise of The Far Right – Janis Wilson

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Janis Wilson is Co Convener of SNP Socialists, an anthropology graduate and a former council candidate The United Kingdom, long regarded as a bastion of liberal democracy and multicultural tolerance, has witnessed a notable rise in far-right sentiment and activism over recent decades and particularly in the years following the 2016 Brexit vote.  This development has

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