Can the unity built between the Camden People’s Alliance and the Green Party make an electoral breakthrough on the PM’s home territory this week? ANDREW MURRAY talks to some of those involved
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VINCE MILLS laments that the SNP has landed Scotland in ‘another fine mess’
PROMISES, PROMISES:Nicola Sturgeon
Plaid Cymru’s Caerffili by-election win raised hopes on the left — but the complex realities of Wales suggest the Senedd election may be far less predictable, argues CATRIN ASHTON
Politicians must seize the opportunity to act boldly and tackle land inequality, delivering power to local communities, writes Dr JOSH DOBLE
Disabled tenant RUTH HUNT found herself evicted by her landlord of 10 years after asking for repairs. She explains why the end of no-fault evictions is cause for celebration
The General Strike exposed the power of the working class — and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
HENRY FOWLER, General Strike 100 national co-ordinator, continued his nationwide tour of partner organisations, joining the National Day of Celebration in Barnsley. The event was organised by Unite for a Workers Economy (Unite the Union), the Durham Miners Association, and the National Union of Mineworkers
SO, THERE we have it. As far as the SNP is concerned, we can ignore the global pandemic, a global economic crisis, the war in Ukraine and an upsurge in British working-class resistance to a profit-taking-induced inflationary spiral — all of that can be displaced by a second referendum on Scottish independence followed by that glorious, golden age where presumably class conflict is dissolved in Scotland.
Nicola Sturgeon has announced that on October 23 2023 there will be another referendum on Scottish Independence — or maybe not. More of this later.
To be fair the case presented in the SNP government’s document Independence in the Modern World. Wealthier, Happier, Fairer: Why Not Scotland? the first of a promised series of documents the Scottish government is publishing in support of independence, has shifted slightly from the Sustainable Growth Commission report of 2018.
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