Scotland

Scottish independence: Breaking up is good to do May 2012
John McAllion makes the socialist case for an independent Scotland

Holyrood hopes April 2011
Ken Ferguson asks how the Scottish left can respond to anger at the Westminster cuts consensus

‘Sin Patron’ in Dundee? May 2010
The Prisme packaging factory in Dundee was perhaps the first in the country to be occupied and to successfully take production under workers control. David Whyte visits the factory a year after the occupation

Grown up and independent October 2008
Actress and comedian Elaine C Smith, convenor of the Convention for Scottish Independence, took a long time to cross what she describes as the 'mythical bridge' to a belief in independence. She argues now that there is no going back, and that independence will release the radicalism generated by the Scottish Enlightenment but held back by 300 years of being tied to the United Kingdom