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A decade on from the anniversary of the referendum on Scottish independence, the Scottish left has gone backwards, argues VINCE MILLS
The Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood in Edinburgh, April 29, 2021
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WE COULD spend some time in this column debating the question saturating the mainstream media in Scotland: is Nicola Sturgeon capable of crocodile tears? This is the accusation levelled at her by the Tory Secretary of State for Scotland, Alister Jack, after a teared-up performance by the former first minister at the UK Covid inquiry in Scotland.
Instead, I want to raise some strategic concerns for the Scottish left. For this year we mark the 10th anniversary of the referendum on Scottish independence. In the 10 years that have followed that defining event, the Scottish left has gone backwards — the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) wound itself up in 2021, by which time the left advance under Jeremy Corbyn had dissipated in the Scottish Labour Party.
Both the left that argued for independence as a way of advancing socialist objectives and the left that I am and was part of in 2014, that argued independence would impede not enhance the prospects of radical change, has suffered serious reverses.
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