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Is Scotland really a colony?                                                             Vince Mills, 30th April 2025

30/4/2025

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PictureKelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
IF you are visiting Glasgow, you will almost certainly want to spend some time in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in the West End. If you do, you may well be struck by a large-scale double portrait of Robert Nutter Campbell and his wife, Margaret Montgomery.


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The Rebirth of the African Phoenix - A View from Babylon by Roger McKenzie

30/4/2025

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Manifesto Press is proud to announce the launch of The Rebirth of the African Phoenix - A View from Babylon by Roger McKenzie on the 2nd of May 2025 at 6pm at the Scottish Trades Union Congress, 8 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP. McKenzie will be joined by his Morning Star colleague Keith Stoddart and Elaine McFarland, Professor Emeritus of history at Glasgow Caledonian University.

You can reserve a place at the launch event here 

The Rebirth of the African Phoenix is the first book in a new trilogy, arguing that Africa will be pivotal to the building of a new multilateral world. This book full of optimism sets out some of the fundamental challenges that Africa and Africans across the diaspora must tackle. It addresses critical questions for the working-class movement and progressives in the developed capitalist countries that go beyond expressions of sympathy or even acts of charitable giving.

Roger’s deep knowledge and commitment to Africa and a lifetime of anti Racism and trade union solidarity makes him well placed to write this historical and future analysis.
— Jeremy Corbyn MP for Islington North
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Roger McKenzie powerfully reminds us that Africa and its people are not just central to our past but essential to our collective future. This timely work challenges us to confront the legacies of colonialism, inequality, and division, and calls for a new multilateralism rooted in justice, solidarity, and self-determination. McKenzie’s vision is clear: a reborn Africa will be the heart of a fairer, freer world. A must-read for all who believe in true global liberation.
— Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP for Clapham and Brixton Hill and chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations. 
You can pre-order a copy here.

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Fight Farage, but not through Swinney’s ‘unpopular front'    Coll McCail, 29th April 2025

29/4/2025

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LAST Friday morning, Glasgow City Councillor Thomas Kerr took to social media to announce that, following a recent surge in recruitment, Reform UK now has more than 10,000 members in Scotland. If Kerr, a recent Tory defector, is correct, Nigel Farage’s party is now the country’s third-largest — and may yet surpass Scottish Labour.

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Change is within our grasp at this year's STUC                  Rozanne Foyer,  27th April 2025

27/4/2025

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This Congress doesn’t just mark another year in our proud history. It marks a moment of transformation. The opportunity for real change is now, but it will only be realised if we fight for it, together, as a united and growing labour movement, rooted in every workplace and every community.



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Reclaim Scottish football, the working people’s game         Sean O'Neill 26th April 2025

26/4/2025

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THIS week marks seven years since the repeal of the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Act 2012 (OBFA), a reactionary SNP government legislation designed to criminalise Scottish football supporters.


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Easter eggs trump child poverty in Scotland                               Coll McCail 19th April 2025

19/4/2025

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Since their election last July, Scottish Labour’s 37 MPs have struggled to distinguish themselves from their southern colleagues. With the notable exception of Brian Leishman — whose ongoing struggle to save the Grangemouth oil refinery has won plaudits from across the political spectrum — the group has fallen into line behind Keir Starmer. Consistent opinion polls predict that most will lose their seats at the next election. By any measure, they are floundering.


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Women are bearing the brunt of rising inequality                 Kate Ramsden 8th April 2025

8/4/2025

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LIKE most women activists of my generation, I’ve spent most of my adult life campaigning for equality for women as part of the struggle for social justice for all. There were times I even felt we were making progress.


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