After months of uncertainty over printing and distribution, the first Scottish-printed edition of the Morning Star is soon to roll off the presses
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Labour needs to offer more if it’s to secure its future north of the border
With a lack of radical thinking from the Starmer-led UK government, support for Scottish independence is unlikely to evaporate any time soon – spelling trouble ahead for Anas Sarwar, argues PAULINE BRYAN
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar speaks during the Labour Party Conference at the Liverpool Arena, September 23, 2024
Some thinkers and authors on the right are openly discussing the possibility that the historically successful party of the British ruling class may be exhausted
Class struggle is the motor of history but the direction and detail of change at any time and place is the outcome of many factors, suggests the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Merseyside’s proud tradition of internationalism is being kept alive through events organised by trade unionists and allies in the region, writes ROBERT MACDONALD
JOHNNIE HUNTER reports from the German Communist Party’s (DKP) weekly Unsere Zeit (Our Newspaper)-organised Peace Days festival in Berlin last weekend
Les Preger was one of Manchester’s first volunteers to volunteer in support of republican Spain, writes his daughter JANEY PREGER
TONY BURKE surveys the shifting political landscape and the challenges Labour needs to address if it is to prevail in the 2028 federal elections
THE Scottish independence referendum results were announced in the early hours of Friday September 19 2014. Labour Party conference in Manchester that year started on Sunday September 21.
To have a Red Paper Collective magazine available for the Monday it was necessary to have two versions of the cover and editorial ready to go to a printer in Manchester immediately the results were announced.
One cover version had Britain held together by a safety pin, the other had the safety pin open and Scotland slipping out. In the days before the referendum it had been impossible to predict which cover we would be using. What was clear was that it would require more than a safety pin to secure the allegiance of a large number of Scots to remain within the UK.
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