Support the Strikes in Higher Education
On Thursday 6th February members of the UCU, Unison and Unite will be striking in response to a substandard pay offer. I will be fully supporting the strike and students who recognise the crucial...
View ArticleWhat sort of left party do we need?
The Scottish left is a contradiction. On the one hand, if we do win the referendum, a new Scottish nation-state will be built on the back of a movement that was, at minimum, influenced and affected by...
View ArticleThe case for an electoral party
The only reliable and sustainable basis on which to build a left party is to orientate it towards the only democratic institutions that everyone can engage in and the only institutions that have...
View ArticleThe case for training and expertise
Most left-wingers become politically engaged on account of learning something of the world and having the curiosity to further expand and develop this knowledge. It is surprising therefore how little...
View ArticlePrincipled and resolute in cynical times – in memory of Bob Crow
Ours is a time of cynical political manoeuvring and unprincipled opportunism. In response to the latest crisis of capitalism, the Liberal Democrats – abandoning election pledges and selling their...
View ArticleCrow’s Legacy is Political Trade Unionism
The sudden passing of RMT General Secretary Bob Crow has shocked many in our movement. What is a sad day for his family is also a sad day for trade unionists across the country. For those of us who...
View ArticleThe case for tolerant democratic discipline
Jokes relating to the left’s tendency to split are repeated so often as to become tedious in the extreme. The reason we split is because we have so little power, without which there’s little to hold...
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The case for politics, not just beliefs
What is politics? The definition, as it is found on Wikipedia is ‘the practice and theory of influencing other people on a civic or individual level’. Therefore politics is something more than a set...
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The unpaid intern and the mini-manager: organising 21st century workplaces
The reality of work and day to day exploitation, and how to organise against it, is something which should be at the heart of Marxism. It was ever in the thoughts of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels,...
View ArticleBetween two futures: recovering an optimism of the will
On September 18 Scots will choose between two futures. One of those choices preserves the United Kingdom as it is. The other will break three centuries of union and open up space for new political...
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