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Scottish Labour has a real opportunity – it mustn’t waste it
It is no good telling the people of Scotland that they are against independence if they do not have a real alternative to put to the people, says TAM KIRBY
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard
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We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
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Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
WITH the SNP wasting time in Holyrood debating what flags should fly in Edinburgh, we are faced with a Tory majority that can now implement any policy it wants when we need to develop a real strategy for democracy not just in Scotland but across Britain.
Debating flags is a distraction of epic proportions, when we need to be talking about real class issues.
Since the ’80s the country has become deindustrialised. Labour had 13 years in power and did nothing to rebuild or even protect the industrial areas destroyed by Thatcher. At its peril it ignored these industrial areas and did nothing to redress the balance of power or wealth.
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