Cover of Jack Foster's book, Catch 2014

Independence is the route to a better Scotland, but we must learn from 2014

Independence is the route to a better Scotland, but we must learn from 2014 by Maggie Chapman | 18 September 2019 I was honoured to be asked to write the foreward to Jack Foster’s book, Catch 2014: why ‘Yes’ lost…

South of Scotland green meeting

The climate emergency, social movements, and moving beyond partisan boundaries

The climate emergency, social movements, and moving beyond partisan boundaries BY MAGGIE CHAPMAN | 31 AUGUST 2019 I was pleased to be invited to open the third South of Scotland Greens Regional Conference in Galashiels today. This is what I…

Front cover of the "Additional revenue streams/sources of funding for the delivery of local government services" report

We must build public support for reform of local government finances

Yesterday, I spoke at the launch of the Reid Foundation’s report on financing local government at the STUC Annual Congress in Dundee. Mike Danson (co-author of the report), Lilian Macer (UNISON Scotland convenor), David Ross (Fife Council Co-Leader) and I…

Maggie Chapman speaking at the podium to Party Conference, with Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie sitting at the table alongside her

The age of individualism is dead; now is the time for social movements to seize power – SGP Spring Conference speech

Good morning friends, and welcome to our Spring Conference, exactly 699 years to the day of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath, and just short of 40 years since Thatcher became Prime Minister. I’ll say a bit more about…

Basic Income: a radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy. The 2nd Ailsa McKay Annual Memorial Lecture

This evening, I had the honour of introducing the Ailsa McKay Memorial Lecture 2017, the second such lecture, hosted by the Women in Scotland’s Economy Research Centre, in the Govan Mbeki Building at Glasgow Caledonian University. This is what I said.…