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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.