KENNY MacASKILL says the lines between party, government and Civil Service in Scotland have been blurred and we need a thorough investigation into how

KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters

KENNY MacASKILL looks at the depth of the corruption tolerated within the Scottish National Party and the efforts to keep it from public scrutiny

The 1797 slaughter of protesters and bystanders in Tranent exposed the brutality of the British state during a period of democratic repression, says KENNY MacASKILL

KENNY MacASKILL welcomes that rare thing: a readable analysis and explanation of the capitalist economy

KENNY MacASKILL remembers the woman who first translated The Communist Manifesto into English

In the year following Peterloo a mass strike erupted into armed revolt as Scotland’s workers demanded their rights, yet this uprising remains largely absent from popular history, writes KENNY MacASKILL

KENNY MacASKILL looks at the extraordinary political commitment of a Church of Scotland minister’s wife

KENNY MacASKILL reminds us of the unprecedented political career of a Scottish miner’s militant son who stayed the course and true to his roots

KENNY MacASKILL welcomes a meticulous account of the corruption of the vast US Department of Justice under Trump’s first and second terms

One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story

KENNY MacASKILL pays tribute to Alex McDade, the International Brigader who fell at Brunete but wrote one of the most famous songs to emerge from the Spanish Civil War