Scottish National Party fires the starting gun but offers no solutions to austerity

Lessons for the workers’ movement internationally The independence referendum in Scotland on September 18 became a mass electoral revolt against the austerity policies of British capitalism and the right-wing Cameron government. The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) and its Scottish section supported a Yes vote for independence from the […]

Main pro-Union (anti-independence) parties step up campaign ahead of independence referendum Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI) The growing conflict over Scottish independence has dramatically escalated following the coordinated intervention by the main pro-union parties who have ruled out an independent Scotland being allowed to form a currency union with […]