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Coll McCail
Coins and Scottish bank notes
Features / 19 April 2025
19 April 2025
From Labour MPs obsessing over Easter egg shapes to SNP ministers celebrating pay rises while marking zoo animals’ arrivals, Scottish politics is really deteriorating, says COLL McCAIL
Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater addresses members, Ma
Features / 30 October 2024
30 October 2024
COLL MCCAIL reveals how party members rebelled against the current leadership’s attempts to block democratic debate on opposing SNP budget cuts at their Greenock conference
Flames and smoke rise from an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh,
Voices of Scotland / 8 October 2024
8 October 2024
The British government actively supports Israel’s escalating violence across the Middle East through arms sales, military assistance, and diplomatic cover, writes COLL McCAIL
Features / 17 September 2024
17 September 2024
The independence referendum’s youthful energy has dissipated, leaving Holyrood disconnected from voters as the constitutional question fades and Labour gains ground from a stagnant SNP, writes COLL MCCAIL
Features / 2 July 2024
2 July 2024
This new plan may be one of Starmer’s avowed priorities in government, but he and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar have given conflicting accounts of how it will actually work. COLL McCAIL reports
Voices of Scotland / 12 March 2024
12 March 2024
COLL McCAIL sees a parallel between Sunak's authoritarian crackdown on dissent and Thatcher’s war on the miners 40 years ago
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with Scottish Labour leader A
Features / 17 February 2024
17 February 2024
Recent events show it’s the Labour right’s intention to shrink the political sphere and minimise popular engagement, warns COLL McCAIL
Labour leader Keir Starmer gives a keynote speech marking th
Features / 5 January 2024
5 January 2024
Four years on from Starmer launching his Labour leadership campaign, COLL McCAIL takes stock of where the party is now and what the future might hold for mass politics
Features / 23 September 2023
23 September 2023
To suggest we no longer need pro-peace organisations like the Stop the War Coalition while we are once again in the midst of war fever in the West is nonsense, explains COLL McCAIL
People take part in a trade union pay protest on Buchanan St
Voices of Scotland / 2 January 2023
2 January 2023
From mass strike solidarity groups, cross-community support for foodbanks and campaigns that targetted the energy companies directly, progressives in Scotland showed they are ready to go into the new year fighting, writes COLL McCAIL