“The new tensions in the global system which are being accelerated by the pandemic are adding in spades to a domestic mood of authoritarianism in some of Europe’s key states.”
Racism
A New report from Community Land Scotland has shown that over 1/3 of the Highlands and Islands has been in the hands of people that benefitted from slavery.
Slavery-derived Wealth in the Highlands and Islands
“Does Trumpism represent a political project independent from the overarching imperatives of American empire? The answer to this question is ‘no’.”
Analysis: Plastic ‘populist’ – Trumpism failed on its own terms
Extinction Rebellion blockaded a newsprinters near Motherwell, Glasgow, in an attempt to prevent The Scottish Sun newspapers being delivered.
‘No To Racist Rhetoric’: XR Protests blockaded newspapers
With mounting evidence that ‘lone wolf’ attacks are actually manifestations of organised far-right politics, is it time to refocus on fascism itself?
Analysis: Time to ditch the ‘lone wolf’ label – we are facing organised fascist violence
The stabbings in Park Inn hotel in Glasgow on Friday are an awful outcome of a system which breaks many of the people caught in its vice. Of course not everyone put through the savagery of the Home Office’s asylum seeker system and locked away in a hotel room for months goes on to commit […]
A terrible outcome of an awful system that leaves no one safe
It’s a sign of the strange and frankly deeply disturbing Twitterisation of political debate in the UK that Robert Jenrick is not sacked as a Minister for a classic case of corruption, while Rebecca Long-Bailey is sacked as a shadow Minister for sub-tweeting The Independent’s interview with an actor who she knows from her constituency, describing her […]
Racist policing is a systemic, international problem
“Both the BBC and the Scottish Police Federation (SPF) not only missed the night’s events, but replaced them with a fabricated version of their own.”
Analysis: Scottish racism is a modern phenomenon, not a legacy of the past
It is difficult to think of many things more contemptible than a protest which intimidates and violently attacks asylum seekers and refugees. The last thing someone who is just trying to get a safe place to live, and may well be experiencing trauma having been forced to flee war or social strife in their homeland, […]