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Why we’re campaigning for a third option on any second referendum ballot paper
Any future vote on Scotland’s constitutional future must present more than just a Yes/No choice between independence and the status quo, argue NEIL FINDLAY and PAULINE BRYAN
Ballot papers are counted through the night after votes were cast in the Scottish independence referendum in 2014
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THE UK’s economic, political and constitutional status quo is broken. The Westminster system is failing the people of Scotland. But so too is Holyrood.
Both Westminster and Holyrood governments have centralised services, enriched private interests, imposed heavy cuts on local government and presided over a decade of plant closures and deindustrialisation.
The call for an “independent” Scotland to immediately rejoin an EU shackled to its neoliberal agenda would rob it of precisely those sovereign powers that we all want; the power to intervene democratically in our own economy. We must also escape the Tories Internal Market Act which inhibits state aid.
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