Our Democracy Is Not For Sale
The Scottish Government’s 2018-19 Program For Government has called for an Electoral Reform Bill. In an age of digital political...
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Cash in, cash out
@Col says: 19 September, 2018 at 8:07 pm: ” … Do you think that labour would somehow all of a...
Read moreDetailsAlice Kinghorn Gray: It’s high time citizens were empowered, not ignored
Ahead of the Electoral Reform Society Scotland’s ‘World Transformed’ event on 23 September, Alice Kinghorn Gray discusses how our political...
Read moreDetailsAdam Ramsay: If we want economic justice we need a democratic revolution
In this excerpt from his contribution to the newly published OpenDemocracy collection New Thinking for the British Economy, political journalist...
Read moreDetailsAnalysis: Despite the release of Hanifi Barış, Turkish oppression continues
As an Aberdeen academic arrested by Turkish authorities is finally freed, Rhiannon Davies details the escalation of Turkey’s brutal authoritarianism...
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As Holyrood votes to scrap P1 testing, campaigners call for ‘progressive education’
Scottish Conservatives lambasted for abandoning their own education policy to attack Scottish Government EDUCATION campaigners have called for a vote...
Read moreDetailsYou can’t have a Union Day if there is no Union
Yesterday, 18 September, was the anniversary of Scotland’s first independence referendum. Only the anniversary of the first one, mind. There...
Read moreDetailsAlex Lockwood: How the story of Chernobyl reveals our mindless attachment to nuclear weapons
Writer Alex Lockwood, who is joining the Nae Nukes Anywhere! march and rally on Saturday 22nd September, explains why he...
Read moreDetailsBuilding Our Common Future: Why the team fight for a better Scotland
During Common Weal's new #CommonFuture campaign, the team will be taking you on their Common Weal journey. Here, Common Weal’s...
Read moreDetailsLocal democracy being ‘systematically eroded,’ claim campaigners
A survey of the funding of every community council in Scotland has sparked claims that the bodies are being systematically...
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