Author: Speymouth
Gordon Maloney on Organising and Power
A discussion about the different strategies that make up a movement. I’m curious about how to describe you, would you call yourself an organiser? An activist? I’m pretty relaxed about it. A lot of people feel very strongly about the distinctions between activism, organising, mobilising, campaigning… The way I see it is that you kind […] Source
Glasgow bar 63rd+1st to close after three years in business
Reservoir Dogs
Years ago people predicted ‘resource wars’ as natural resources like food and water became more and more scarce due to climate change. We’re in that future now, deep into it, and seemingly oblivious. As weeks of torrential rain is followed by more record-breaking heat, we go on. In Mexico they have elected today Claudia Sheinbaum, […] Source
Farage’s emergency announcement, an emergency for whom?
Nigel Farage is the herpes of British politics, annoying, nasty, and impossible to get rid of. After saying for weeks that he wouldn’t be contesting the general election for his Reform party vanity vehicle, and that Reform would not be doing any deals with the Tories, Farage announced on Monday morning…
Scottish Borders: Proposed wind farm to have a quarter fewer turbines
Kirkcaldy: Major £2.5m business development approved
Morrisons: Scottish spirits producer strikes deal with supermarket
Family-run cafe in historic Scottish town closes after over 60 years
Nuclear War, Scotland, and the General Election
On the day when Labour’s Shadow Defence Secretary went on radio to say we can’t rebuild our public services if we don’t have nuclear weapons, David Mackenzie makes the case for peace, and sanity. Labours shadow defence secretary says we can’t rebuild our public services if we don’t have nuclear weapons. pic.twitter.com/R5fuKh0ecW — Saul Staniforth […] Source
The SNP’s target should be Starmer’s right wing policies and many lies
We’re only just over a week into the Westminster general election campaign and it is already unfolding in a drearily predictable way with the SNP being marginalised, Labour spouting hollow promises of ‘change’ that it has no intention of realising and the Tories losing what little plot they once possessed. The…
Emergency services on the scene of two-vehicle A96 crash
Direct Action Against Edinburgh’s Leonardo Factory
As the intensity of the attacks on civilians, women and children fleeing to supposedly ‘safe’ territory increases in Rafah, so too does the nature of the protests here. Despite ongoing British intransigence and complicity with the depravity of the Israeli Defence Force, people are standing up and taking a stance as our leaders fail us. […] Source