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Consequences of the local elections 2026

Penelope Duggan — 2026-05-15T13:13:14Z

The combined results of the 7 May elections have thrown the current UK government into turmoil.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Britain, Scotland, Cymru/Wales

Labour collapses, the far right grows

Simon Hannah — 2026-05-15T12:13:25Z

The elections across much of Britain on 7 May were a devastating blow to the ruling Labour Party who lost 1,229 councillors in England and also came third in the election for the Welsh Sennedd and lost support in the Scottish Parliamentary elections.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Britain, Scotland, Cymru/Wales

“A Defeat Manufactured in Downing Street”

Geoff Ryan — 2026-05-15T12:12:57Z

Those were the words used by Mick Antoniw, former MS (Member of the Senedd), Counsel General in the Welsh Labour government and a senior member of the Labour Party in Cymru/Wales. He was describing the election on May 7 when Cymru underwent a change of historic proportions.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Britain, Scotland, Cymru/Wales

Scottish Parliament elections: a balance between continuity and change

Mike Picken — 2026-05-15T12:12:44Z

The Scottish Parliament elections on 7 May produced a balance between continuity and change.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Britain, Scotland, Cymru/Wales

How Can Socialists Run Cities – will Mamdani show us the way?

Iain Bruce — 2026-01-13T22:30:19Z

Zohran Mamdani's election to Mayor of New York has been a badly-needed boost to the confidence of the left in the U.S. and beyond. It has also reignited debate about the strategic choices facing socialists elected to local government, and eventually to national governments too.

- IVP612 - January 2026 / United States (USA), Brazil, Scotland

Being a transgender woman at the International Youth Camp

Sister from Scotland — 2022-09-15T07:15:26Z

“I think it speaks to the way that the Camp functions as a space for a kind of pre-figurative politics, a way of testing out some elements of socialism via collective, co-operative living. ”

- IV572 - September 2022 / Youth camp, Scotland, LGBT

Submission to the independent commission on the constitutional future of Wales

Anti*Capitalist Resistance — 2022-08-21T10:34:43Z

“Without independence governments in Cymru will be unable to enact many laws that will improve the lives of ordinary working people because Westminster will almost certainly reject them if they are inimical to the political views of the governing party while laws developed in Westminster will be imposed on Cymru – as happens today despite devolution.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / Britain, Scotland, National question, Cymru/Wales

Against War and Climate Change – Scotland must break with ‘net zero' and NATO

Iain Bruce — 2022-03-09T12:57:31Z

“[W]e need to seize on the connection the scientists have made between the threat of climate change and inequality.”

- IV566 - March 2022 / Scotland, NATO, Climate

Beyond Glasgow – what happened at COP26 and where we go next

Iain Bruce — 2021-12-24T11:18:31Z

It is a month since Alok Sharma as president, fighting back some tears, brought down the gavel on the 26th Conference of the Parties – the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow. The initial flurry of reactions and comments has subsided. Here in Scotland we have already seen some early signs of the impact – with the beginnings of a victory against the development of a new offshore oil field at Cambo.

- Features / Scotland, Ecology and the Environment, Ecosocialism

Disunited Kingdom

Terry Conway — 2021-05-31T06:49:10Z

“All of this means that for socialists in England the question of deepening our understanding of the national questions in both Scotland and Wales, and in particular fighting for labour movement support for the right to self determination, needs to be pushed much higher up our political agenda.”

- IV556 - May 2021 / Britain, Scotland, England, Cymru/Wales