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For too long the Scottish government has used constitutional wrangling as an excuse for inaction
People should be under no illusions that our employment and human rights are now being targeted by the Conservative government, under the cloak of Brexit, says PAT RAFFERTY
SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford outside the British Parliament after last week's walkout. A constitutional standoff between Edinburgh and London has distracted from solving Scotland's real problems
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 constitutional fog has been a distraction from the many challenges facing the people of Scotland, in particular how we create decent living and working standards, address poverty and fund our public services.
It has allowed both the Westminster and Scottish governments to abdicate responsibility and point the finger of blame at each other.
The decision of the UK people to leave the EU, followed by the unfolding debate about what powers get repatriated to the Scottish Parliament, is just the latest complication in the constitutional saga.
The folly of the Westminster government in not automatically repatriating all powers to the Scottish Parliament in the event of Brexit has ignited the blame game once again.
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