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Indy Radicals Organise 15 Jun 2012 | 09:41 pm
For supporters of an independent Scottish Republic it might have been tempting just to hide under the covers during the holiday weekend until the wall to wall Jubilee mania ended. Fortunately there wa...
Scotland and the Basque Country: the struggle for independence 13 Jun 2012 | 07:51 pm
The road to Scotland’s independence referendum in the autumn of 2014 will be closely watched across the world, with the geo-political ramifications of a ‘Yes’ vote remaining a subject of huge contenti...
For a Radical Independence Movement. 15 May 2012 | 07:44 am
Scottish politics was never meant to be this exciting. Safe Labour seats falling like skittles. Legal threats over referendums. The first vote in 300 years over our future in the Union. Devolution was...
It's time to jail criminal landlords 6 Mar 2012 | 03:33 am
Deposits withheld, extortionate fees and glacial-pace repairs; the all too common experience of renting a flat in Scotland. On short term tenancies and seldom aware of their rights private tenants, yo...
Free Labour and the UK's Youth 1 Feb 2012 | 04:27 am
When Cait Reilly refused to work for free at Poundland, the tabloids had a field day. How lazy and idealist are the youth of today! Fancy being on the dole and turning down work! Wasn’t like she had a...
The Online Revolution 31 Jan 2012 | 02:19 pm
The internet is a relatively new conception, being invented in the mid-20th century, some of us remember before it was developed (and most of us remember it not being a part of our lives). Like most i...
Independence for Scotland – GAME ON. 11 Jan 2012 | 10:48 am
After almost a year since the SNP’s landslide victory we have a date – Autumn 2014. The most important referendum in Scottish history, on whether or not we stay in a Union dominated by the right-wing...
2011 – the year that shook that world. 10 Jan 2012 | 10:38 am
The Russian revolutionary Lenin said there were “decades where nothing happens; and there were weeks when decades happen”. If there was a time that saw decades of political conservatism, stagnancy, an...
Justin Bieber's North Korean Tour Diaries 20 Dec 2011 | 04:16 am
Originally published in the August 2010 issue of Leftfield, we today republish the following article in tribute to the dearly departed, friend of the people and bullwark against imperialism, Kim Jong...
New fangled technologies and activism 6 Dec 2011 | 02:08 am
Where the internet and protests collide Political activism has been in the news more in the last year than in all the years since the 2003 Iraq war. Revolutions in the Arab world, occupations in Amer...
