Labour, SNP, Lib Dems, Greens, SLP – assessed Labour’s Last Chance Saloon – Bob Thomson is a former Chairman and Treasurer of the Scottish Labour Party Most political commentators don’t seem to have appreciated the scale and significance of New Labour’s losses on May Day. Labour received its lowest vote since 1931, with 400,000 less […]
Robin McAlpine argues that the next four years will be crucial in determining whether the future of Scotland is shaped by the right or the left The more thoughtful Scottish politicians always recognised that devolution wasn’t an event, it was a process. If there was anyone left who doubted that, May 1 2003 should have […]
Margaret Lynch argues that if the world is to be spared being bullied into submission by America, we have to reach out to the people of America Every now and then it is good to stand back and try to think outside your normal box. To explore an issue, to question and challenge from vantage […]
Mike Small reviews Robin Ramsay’s The Rise of New Labour (Pocket Essentials) “I have taken from my party everything they thought they believed in. What keeps it together is success and power.” Tony Blair, as quoted by Andrew Rawnsley in Servants of the People “The whole noble array of barristers, solicitors, accountants, surveyors, agents, and […]
In this edition we review some of the information that has swerved round the official propagandist media and appeared on the net – sometimes for the first time and sometimes digging up the revolting backgrounds of Blair’s new fundamentalist friends in the States. We also expose how in these times of digital imaging the camera […]
Margo Goes to Holyrood In politics it seems that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. A revealing Scottish Television documentary to be screened this month follows Margo MacDonald on the campaign trail. The film shows Margo urging voters to cast their vote for just about anybody and any party. Except the SNP. Among […]
Issue 16
It is one of those questions that the partial-democrats mock, but it has never been more crucial; what is your vote for? Too much of our political culture in Britain (although this is changing in Scotland) still sees a vote as a weapon of last resort. Democracy, for the partial democrat, is about giving legitimacy […]
Five MSPs argue why someone from the left should vote for them Labour I believe that Labour in the Scottish Parliament has made real progress in the areas of everyday life which affect most directly working men and women. Aneurin Bevan in ‘In Place of Fear’ wrote that “There is no test for progress other […]
Tommy Sheppard and Dorothy Grace Elder explain why they can no longer bring themselves to vote for their old parties I joined the Labour Party in 1979 just before my 21st birthday. Politically active for four or more years previously, the decision was a considered choice, eschewing the myriad of alternative left organisations on the […]