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News, Campaigns & Events


Stop the Cuts - Save our fire stations
Monifieth in Angus is not somewhere associated with calls for revolution at lively public meetings. But those attending recent full house...
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Remembering Hiroshima
As Scotland gets ready to reflect on the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their people, Â President Trump relocates his...
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Spain: Scotland and the IBMT
On 27 th  July a sizeable crowd gathered in Duchess of Hamilton Park in Motherwell. International Brigade Memorial Trust (IBMT) members,...
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Perspectives & Views


A just transition or the industrialisation of the Highlands?
Cathie Lloyd underlines the case for making far more careful use of our country's natural resources, in a piece drawing on the insights...
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Away with nuclear weapons
Many Scots are not aware that the (dis)UK's nuclear weapons of mass destruction lurk in the Clyde estuary. That's why we should share and...
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Macabre are these "peacemakers"
When Henry Kissinger was awarded the the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, the American humourist Tom Lehrer dryly observed that 'satire is...
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Reviews and Reflections


Another fringe is possible
Edinburgh, of course, of course ... But we're also very pleased to see the Kirkcudbright fringe in the south west returning for its...
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(When there was) a new left party in Dumfries
A review in the latest issue of the Socialist History journal considers Ian Gasse's detailed book on the emergence of labour politics in...
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The writing on the wall
Quotations from the poetry of three of Scotland's previous Makars have been set in stone and incorporated into our Parliament's Canongate...
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