A Yes vote would just be the begining
Shortly before launching his Government’s plans for an independence referendum, Alex Salmond travelled to London to deliver the Hugo Young lecture. The lecture was one of a series set up by the owners of the Guardian to commemorate their paper’s columnist and senior political commentator who had died in…
Socialists fight to break with capitalist Britain
Everyone is talking about independence, which is a good thing. Well, it would be if British Unionists – in political parties and the media – could raise their game above the level of scare stories and lies. It really isn’t acceptable for supposedly unbiased reporters to use the…
Time to widen the independence debate
Are your eyes glazed over yet with the who can vote, what’s the vote about, when will the vote happen, dinner party debate that has dominated the ‘political’ independence debate since New Year? They have? Then you are not alone. Amidst the chorus of pollsters, politicians, academic experts…
