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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, 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, Wales, England

Catalan elections closely watched in Scotland

Lorena Serantes , Socialist Resistance — 2021-02-15T09:07:58Z

Catalonia goes to the polls on Sunday 14 February (14-F) in elections for the devolved parliament and government (“Generalitat”), The elections will be closely watched in Scotland, particularly by the independence movement looking to learn from the struggle. Glasgow Radical Independence Campaign and Dundee Radical Independence Campaign will shortly hold a joint public discussion meeting on the elections.
Catalan Fourth Internationalists in Anticapitalistes (part of the confederal (…)

- IV553 - February 2021 / Scotland, Catalonia

Safety fears over Covid in schools

Mike Picken — 2020-12-18T10:00:07Z

Safety fears over Covid in schools: Scottish teachers vote for industrial action as Labour London Councils call for early school closures

- IV551 - December 2020 / Britain, Scotland, Trade unions/workplace organizing, Public services , Covid-19 Pandemic

Mandel and Capitalist Breakdown

George Kerevan — 2020-08-08T06:44:09Z

Using insights from Belgian Marxist thinker Ernest Mandel, economist George Kerevan argues capitalism will suffer profound breakdown this century.

- Ernest Mandel Archive / Marxism, Scotland, Economy, Ernest Mandel

Glasgow killing raises major questions about treatment of asylum seekers

Mike Picken — 2020-07-01T05:26:05Z

In a major event in Scotland, one person was killed by armed police in a Glasgow hotel used to accommodate asylum seekers. The call ‘not to politicise' the incident from SNP and Labour politicians is completely misplaced.

- IV545 - June 2020 / Scotland, Anti-racism and Islamophobia