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Nothing is too good for Scotland’s schemes
SEAN O’NEILL explains how Wyndford housing estate activists fighting to save their high-rise homes from demolition will continue to defend their built heritage throughout a summer of struggle
Locals want the blocs to be invested in, not demolished

HERE in Scotland, the old regime is dying and the new is yet to be born.

The nationalist government and its market-driven agenda has betrayed the nation. State-monopoly capitalism in a kilt is a bad look.  

People grow more conscious of the fact that big business is served by political elites of all shades, in Westminster and Holyrood, who manage the common affairs of the ruling class at the expense of working people and their families. 

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