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Maximising unity on the Scottish left
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We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
THIS weekend the SNP will gather in Dundee to decide its future strategy on the constitution, following the British Supreme Court’s decision of last November blocking its planned referendum in October of this year.
It does so while Scotland is in a period of political ferment provoked by the failures of the leaderships of both the UK and Scottish governments to address the latest set of inter-related problems contemporary capitalism has visited on us, including war in Europe and a cost-of-living crisis at home.
Of course, crises are endemic in capitalism and in Britain these have been compounded by the end of empire.
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