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The labour movement must take a lead on the Scottish independence debate
PCS is calling for the STUC to facilitate a union-led ‘constitutional convention’ to represent the voices, views and vision of working people across Scotland for our future. LYNN HENDERSON explains

IT’S two months on, Boris Johnson is in power, the Withdrawal Agreement Bill has passed and the battle to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader is turning toxic. 

For the past couple of years under Corbyn’s leadership, there was real hope for an alternative socialist government that even in Scotland united many on the pro-independence left with those who travel on a different road to socialism.

When the exit polls came out at 10pm on December 12, I was in BBC Radio Scotland’s Glasgow studio with former Scottish republican turned Tory MSP Adam Tomkins and the SNP’s Shirley Anne Somerville.  

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