SNP Socialists co-convenor Graham Campbell reviews the SNP’s new strategy and its significance for the wider independence movement. There was a very low level of expectation or excitement in advance of June 24th’s SNP Convention in Dundee. In lieu of the special conference that was postponed after Nicola Sturgeon’s sudden resignation in March, a thousand […]
A few days ago I finally graduated in International Politics from the University of Stirling. To show solidarity with striking lecturers, I wore the pink sash of the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) on stage while receiving my degree. Little did I know that the next day my university would cut me out of the […]
The British Crown, we are told, holds Scotland dear in its heart. From the rolling hills of Balmoral to the beauty of the Castle of Mey, the House of Windsor has many favourite haunts in Scotland. Seeing that they own a fair chunk of the land, you would hope that they were getting some kind […]
Industrial action in further education is continuing into the summer. Despite all the challenges it is bringing students, and all the pain of unrewarded work, they have every intention to keep up the fight, writes Sher, a social sciences student at New College Lanarkshire. There is a crisis brewing in Scotland’s further education sector, and […]
As Nicola Sturgeon leaves the political scene, Coll McCail reflects on how Scottish politics and public debate has faded to grey. Nicola Sturgeon’s arrest on the 11th of June caught many off guard. In the swamp of British politics, Nicola Sturgeon is the last person one would expect to see photographed in the back of […]
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A couple of years ago, deep in the pandemic, a group of trade union and community organisers, arts workers, and teachers met to discuss how to develop political education in Scotland. Since then, radical learning networks and schools have emerged across the country, many of them outside established institutions. There are schools channelling counter-capitalist currents […]
Four organisers of a recent weekend of radical education reflect on the spaces and situations where we can grow anti-capitalist culture. In February this year, at Crianlarich youth hostel, over 20 people from different backgrounds, generations and political outlooks came together at a residential weekend hosted by the Popular Education Network (PEN). The aim of […]
Following the footsteps of folk who made history in our cities, we can learn how to carry on their work, writes Katherine MacKinnon. There are few better ways of getting to know a city than walking through its streets and learning about the histories of activism and struggles that changed the lives of its inhabitants. […]
Malcolm Petrie explores the rapid expansion and radical ethos of Scotland’s labour colleges more than a century ago. The early decades of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a significant movement for independent working-class education. This movement was, in part, a reaction to – and rejection of – existing paternalistic efforts to expand educational […]