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We choose to Stay and we choose to fight                              Vince Mills 29th March 2025

29/3/2025

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THERE IS no escaping it, Neil Findlay’s decision to leave the Labour Party on March 19 was a heavy blow for the Scottish Labour left. As reported in the Morning Star, his resignation letter was a stinging rebuke to the Labour Party leadership, citing the lengthening list of heartless decisions they have made in order advance the interests of corporate capital at the expense of the most vulnerable sections of the working class, with more to come

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Gentrification and housing                                                        Jim Whiston 29th March 2025

29/3/2025

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The new Govan/Partick Bridge
We all think we know what gentrification is. We sense it – it might be the new artisan bakery or an organic coffee shop on the corner – but the reality is the degutting of working-class neighbourhoods. The term was first coined by the urban sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964. She grasped that the movement of bohemian middle-class types was transforming the character of the likes of London’s Notting Hill[i]. The key motor was the displacement of working-class residents by rising housing costs.




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The Housing Crisis and How to Fix It                             Katrina Faccenda 24th March 2025

24/3/2025

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Councillor for Leith, Katrina Faccenda
Housing is a UK wide problem but as a Labour Councillor representing Leith in Edinburgh, I am going to draw a lot of my comments from the current situation in my area and Edinburgh. In Edinburgh the New Town was built in the 18/19th centuries so that the wealthy could leave the overcrowded medieval closes. By the middle of the 19th century the life expectancy of New Town residents was twice that of the old town, a stone’s throw from one another, they became an inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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These cuts betray Labour’s basic principles            Brian Leishman MP, 17th March 2025

17/3/2025

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THE planned cuts to welfare is a defining moment for this government. Keir Starmer has a political choice to make — does he dish up more of the same austerity that the Conservatives inflicted on the most disadvantaged people in our society, or does he do the right thing and look after our most vulnerable citizens?

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