Category: Grassroots Labour

Mick Watson would very much like Scottish Labour folk to please stop talking about a second independence referendum. Here are his five top reasons why. REASON ONE: There isn’t going

Alastair Osborne says Labour’s internal bickering over state vs private schooling must not distract us from the problems we must seek to address in the state of Scottish education. Our

Wynn Thorne considers the ideological differences within the Labour Party and wonders whether it is time, not for a schism, but simply for an agreement to go our separate ways.

On the day ballots are delivered to members, Mick Watson sets out ten steps he wants to see taken by the next Scottish Labour leader. Get on TV. For the

Mark Lazarowicz, past MP and former chair of the Scottish Labour Party, argues that a policy of confederalism, or ‘Home Rule’, should be the party’s answer to the constitutional question

Graeme Downie, a member of Dunfermline CLP, points out the inherent danger of promoting undeveloped policy, and suggests how Scottish Labour can do better in future. Over the past few

Kyle Bellamy says it’s vital as an internationalist party that Labour demonstrates its support for the protesters in Hong Kong and against the repression of the Chinese state. “The Labour