Kurdish fighters aligned with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) are continuing their desperate battle against Islamic State for the town of Kobane. Nato member Turkey, in the hopes of injuring the PKK, is preventing Kurds and Kurdish weapons entering Kobane from Turkey. Kurdish organisation Day-Mer calls for an end to Turkish repression and western military intervention.
Chris Bambery argues that, despite the "No" vote in the referendum last month, the British state remains mired in a deep crisis with no obvious way out.
We need to build a new party which reflects the best elements of the Yes movement - bottom-up, radical and powered by class politics. We must give thousands of working class Yes voters a home and fight to keep the heartlands abandoned by Labour, argues Cat Boyd.
David Jamieson provides a sober analysis of the hard truths and new opportunities following from a No vote in the independence referendum.
Kurdish fighters aligned with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) are continuing their desperate battle against Islamic State for the town of Kobane. Nato member Turkey, in the hopes of injuring the PKK, is preventing Kurds and Kurdish weapons entering Kobane from Turkey. Kurdish organisation Day-Mer calls for an end to Turkish repression and western military intervention.
Chris Bambery argues that, despite the "No" vote in the referendum last month, the British state remains mired in a deep crisis with no obvious way out.
We need to build a new party which reflects the best elements of the Yes movement - bottom-up, radical and powered by class politics. We must give thousands of working class Yes voters a home and fight to keep the heartlands abandoned by Labour, argues Cat Boyd.
David Jamieson provides a sober analysis of the hard truths and new opportunities following from a No vote in the independence referendum.
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Following a near 25% fall in earnings for the self-employed between 2008 and 2012, Chris Bambery considers the increasing propensity of precarious work and its implications for organisation.
Adam Frew examines the details of Labour and Better Together's promises of greater devolution in the event of a No vote.
Sinead Dunn reviews "Scottish Independence - A Feminist Response". Recognising the book as a valuable and timely contribution to the referendum debate, Sinead notes how the two authors' approaches fuse to form a readable, robust and unapologetic feminist voice.
Western calls to arm the Kurds and bomb Iraq are both hypocritical and dangerous, argues John Rees.
Unpacking Better Together's campaign strategy, Adam Frew explains how the Scottish Parliament's extremely limited fiscal powers render it defenceless against Westminster cuts. Recounting the financial crash, the saddling of taxpayers with private debt and the development of the austerity consensus, Adam concludes that remaining in the UK would condemn Scots to low wages, falling living standards and humiliating welfare cuts.
Gough Whitlam, the Australian Social Democratic Prime Minister deposed by Elizabeth II has died at 98.
Adam Frew surveys the new political landscape thrown up by the referendum result and argues for a new party of the radical left.
Following Yes majorities in party heartlands and as the knives come out for Darling and Alexander after a disastrous campaign, Chris Bambery examines a Scottish Labour under threat of annihilation.
Chris Bambery argues that, despite the overall result, there are a number of positives that the radical left can take from the independence referendum while Labour and the Conservatives have fresh problems to ponder.
Mistrust of the SNP is not only a poor reason to vote No, but actively a reason to vote Yes, argues David Jamieson. "The disintegration of Westminster authority is making a dynasty out of the SNP. If we want this to stop, independence is the only choice."
Chris Bambery argues that we must remember that Britain is our main enemy in the run up to Thursday's referendum.
As the Orange Order takes to the streets of Edinburgh in defence of the Union, Chris Bambery recalls the roots of anti-Catholic sectarianism in the colonisation of Ireland and the military repression of its restless population. The vitality of Scottish culture and the intensity of the independence debate point to a new Scotland where the politics of the Orange Order appear increasingly absurd.
With the authorisation of airstrikes in Iraq and Syria unthinkable before 18 September, David Jamieson examines a symmetry in the position of the British elite in this centenary year and in 1914. Trapped between secession at home and a calamitous Imperial project abroad, the political class must be reckoning with what we all hope – that something must give way.
