I shared a platform last night with Bernie Sanders’ brother, Oxford-based Larry, who is campaigning as part of #BritainforBernie and came to speak in Edinburgh. Here is my speech: I’d like to begin by welcoming Larry to Scotland. February is…
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We are on the brink of revolutionary change: thoughts on #BernieSanders
I shared a platform last night with Bernie Sanders’ brother, Oxford-based Larry, who is campaigning as part of #BritainforBernie came to speak in Edinburgh. Here is my speech: I’d like to begin by welcoming Larry to Scotland. February is maybe…
David MacLennan: a cultural legacy
This evening I had the huge honour of introducing and presenting a portrait of the late David MacLennan to his widow, Juliet Cadzow. Oran Mor hosted this event, and the painting, commissioned by Democratic Left Scotland and painted by Sandy…
Radical Independence Conference 2016
Photo Credit: Doug Haywood Good morning everyone. It is a huge honour to be speaking here, once again. I’d like to begin by saying thank you to Myshele and others for bringing us together. But thank you, also, for being…
Workers rights are human rights
I was privileged to be one of four panelists discussing Nicola Sturgeon’s Jimmy Reid Memorial lecture at the STUC this evening. The others were James Dornan (SNP MSP), Drew Smith (Labour MSP) and Myrto Tsakatika (in place of Cat Boyd,…
Cast-iron case for a not-for-profit steel industry owned by workers, funded by a national investment bank
This article was co-authored this with Kirsten Robb, our Lead Candidate for Central Scotland . It was in the Herald last Friday: The mothballing of the Lanarkshire Tata Steel plants is a disaster for communities already scarred by severe job losses in…
North East needs to plan for thousands of jobs beyond oil and gas
I’m delighted that new research commissioned by the Scottish Greens MSPs from Platform shows how a planned transition to green energy could create over 200,000 jobs. This could secure the north-east’s energy economy for generations to come. We all know…
National demo against benefits cuts and sanctions
On Sunday I was privileged to share a platform with campaigners and others at the national demonstration against benefits cuts and sanctions, organised by Black Triangle and others, in Glasgow. This is (more or less) what I said. Good afternoon and…
Let’s stand up against xenophobia!
In a world where it is apparently acceptable to equate a government minister with a fundamentalist and a nation’s leader with a despot, those of us who fight for equality and against xenophobia and racism have much work to do.…
Edinburgh Council agrees to consider a divestment policy!
At today’s full council meeting in Edinburgh, my colleague Chas Booth and I were all set to have an argument. We fully expected the Conservative Group to challenge our motion calling on the Council to explore the possibilities of divesting…