On Freedom Cities

The city as a human right, the city as a space of resistance, the city as a place of anonymity and citizenship have long been ideals of the Left. See “New municipalism” and Fearless Cities. But the city is increasingly a place that obsesses the far-right, no more manifest than Donald Trump’s seizure of Washington […] Source

Growing the Gift Economy in Fife

While the official government of the U.K. is caught up in the fear-based mentality of scarcity and austerity, ordinary people are quite happily tending the seeds of a much happier and healthier society. As the Labour party threatens to sell off allotments in their ideas of a ‘realistic’ economy, groups in Fife are demonstrating how […] Source

German firm should think again about wind farm near Glen Affric

THE announcement by EnergieKontor regarding Ballach Wind development near iconic Glen Affric arrived with a confusing bang. On August 6 the German company wrote to community councils saying it had submitted its planning application for 20 mega-sized turbines to the Scottish Government in July after consulting with the community and refining its plans. Those “refinements” are certainly not obvious and it is doubtful they have changed anything at all after public “feedback”. Cherry-picked viewpoints, misty visuals and turbines not much larger than cows all serve to try and downplay what will be a catastrophic impact for so many. Source

Scotland and the United Nations, an unlikely path to independence

There has been some pushback online from Liberation Scotland/Salvo supporters about the comment I made in my previous piece about the UK employing its veto as a permanent member of the UN Security Council in order to block any potential UN resolution demanding the decolonisation of Scotland should Liberation Scotland/Salvo succeed…

An hour of not feeling complicit in the genocide

Almost 500 people were arrested in London yesterday for holding placards supporting ‘Palestine Action’ which the UK government has declared a ‘terrorist organisation’ despite it never harming anyone. In theory, anyone holding such a placard could receive up to 14 years in prison.  Those arrested at that ‘Defend our Juries’ protest included folk who had […] Source

Breaking the constitutional logjam

There has been a lot of discussion in the past few weeks about various strategies to achieve independence. These include John Swinney’s plan, which I wrote about a few days ago. There is also the decolonisation initiative which Salvo, the campaigning wing of Liberation Scotland is presenting to the United Nations,…