Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external

TODAY is the 25th anniversary of the death of Mick McGahey. The occasion will be marked by a debate in the Scottish Parliament on his legacy.
This is fitting. In his very first year as the leader of the Scottish miners, he went to the Scottish TUC Congress and called for the establishment of a Scottish Parliament in a federal United Kingdom.
In so doing he invoked the spirit of Bob Smillie and Keir Hardie, argued that the essence of socialism was the decentralisation of power, but decisively rejected “any theory of a classless Scotland,” citing the common bonds between the Scottish miners, the London dockers, the Durham miners and the Sheffield engineers.

Corbyn and Sultana’s ‘Your Party’ represents the first attempt at mass socialist organisation since the CPGB’s formation in 1921, argues DYLAN MURPHY

KATE CLARK recalls an occasion when the president of the Scottish National Union of Mineworkers might just have saved a Chilean prisoner’s life
