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Left-wing supporters of both sides in the independence referendum challeged each other yesterday at a packed Morning Star Scottish conference in Glasgow yesterday.
Convener of Yes Scotland Dennis Canavan said: “I don’t imagine there will be a socialist revolution in the aftermath of a Yes vote. But independence gives us a huge opportunity to do things differently and better.”
He said the Commonweal proposals from the Jimmy Reid Foundation were ideas of economic self determination which the left could agree on “but the basic question is how to achieve this.”
On the release of her memoir that reveals everything except politics, Sturgeon’s endless media coverage has focused on her panic attacks, sexuality and personal tragedies while ignoring her government’s many failures, writes PAULINE BRYAN
As bus builder Alexander Dennis threatens Falkirk closure and Grangemouth faces ruthless shutdown by tax exile Jim Ratcliffe, RICHARD LEONARD MSP warns that global corporations must be resisted by a bold industrial strategy based on public ownership