The fight for Better Buses means a better democracy
Patrick Harvie, Glasgow's Green MSP, has launched a new campaign for the interests of the city's bus users, Better Buses. Harvie said at the launch of the site: Motorists have…
Why we need a more participatory and inclusive approach to local politics
At last week’s full council meeting I had two motions up for debate. One in support of participatory budgeting (PB) as a means of deciding 1% of the Council’s discretionary…
Time to Take Democracy Outside
Clare Cochrane Ironically it is often at those times when democracy is most under threat that it is most alive. It's when democracy is in crisis, or appears to have…
Why I support independence
Governments should be closer to people. I wish politicians would stop deciding to send teenagers to kill and die in foreign adventures. But if ministers are going to launch a…
Starmer Drama: DPP’s Today programme announcement shows that the CPS are not even following their bizarre new guidelines
By one of the Fortnum & Mason arrestees These days, I’m all too used to being woken up by the sound of my own voice shouting at the radio. This…
A Community Strategy to Beat Austerity
Guest post by Jon Bee The attacks on our standard of living as a result of the economic crisis and the neo-liberal cuts agenda are currently being fought against by…
Will England’s inner cities burn again this summer?
By Ryan Bridgewater Angry, young and poor: Youth unemployment in Britain stands at over one million and those who are employed face low pay or even no pay in the…
Social media and the building of a radical clique
Over Christmas, I danced reels in the Airlie Village Hall with people I've known for longer than I can remember. I had my mobile phone in my sporran. After some…
Politicians vs Representative Democracy
Democracy noun, a form of government in which the people have a voice in the exercise of power; typically through elected representatives. Origin: Greek demokratia, from demos 'the people' +…
Calling all students, restore the right to protest.
Whatever differences of our oft dysfunctional, sometime self-destructive student “left” may have, it is nice to know that we also know exactly when it is time to unite and fight.…