Democracy & State > Nationalism
Referendum has nothing to offer
07 Jun 2012
Neither Scottish independence nor British unionism. Sarah McDonald looks at the launch of the "Yes" campaign
A fruitless crown
23 Mar 2023
The contest to replace Nicola Sturgeon has proved unexpectedly fraught. Scott Evans reports on a movement that has run out of options
Sturgeon’s final straw
02 Mar 2023
Have we reached ‘peak SNP’? Is the dream of Scottish independence now fading? Eddie Ford reports on the leadership battle and continuing culture wars
Devolution non-recognition
02 Feb 2023
UK government uses the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill as an excuse to assert ministers’ right to micro-manage Holyrood legislation for Tory electoral advantage. Mike Macnair explores the issues
Mongols versus Vikings
05 Jan 2023
Daniel Lazare examines the dangerous stew of ethno-nationalisms that emerged following the collapse of the Soviet Union
Self-determination is a right
01 Dec 2022
Mike Macnair scrutinises the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on ‘Indyref2’ and looks at some typically inadequate left responses
Protests challenge the regime
29 Sep 2022
Across the whole country, in every city, in every town, there is revolt. But does ‘post-nationalism’, rather than class politics, provide the solution? Yassamine Mather investigates
Loyal to king and capital
15 Sep 2022
Yassamine Mather takes issue with those on the left who think the SNP is ‘left of centre’
From goch to pinc
11 Aug 2022
Mike Macnair critiques the ongoing political degeneration of Anticapitalist Resistance and the Mandelites
Indy2, strikes and boycotts
28 Jul 2022
Why are the ‘official communists’ in such a muddle over the SNP’s bid to hold a legal referendum on independence? James Harvey critiques the YCL’s gensec
Westminster vs Holyrood
07 Jul 2022
James Harvey considers the SNP’s call for a second independence referendum and asks how the left should respond
Messianic colonialism
09 Jun 2022
Religious ideology and nationalist ideology have a unique interrelationship; after all, even secular Zionists have to justify their ongoing colonial project with reference to a god they do not believe in. However, as Moshé Machover shows, it is the religious Zionists of the far right who are increasingly setting the agenda, not least by staging all manner of highly dangerous provocations
Crisis in permanence
12 May 2022
Sinn Féin is hailing an historic turning point, but, despite that, Irish reunification is still a long way off. Anne McShane and Kevin Bean look at the results
Two impossibilities
12 May 2022
Neither a one-state nor a two-state solution is feasible, argues Moshé Machover. Instead we ought to think outside the Israel-Palestine box and argue for a working class solution
Rival nationalist bigotries
28 Apr 2022
Daniel Lazare investigates the thriving rightwing ideology on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine divide
Key issue is not Russia
24 Mar 2022
Left must oppose the invasion of Ukraine, insists Tony Greenstein, but who bears ultimate responsibility for the carnage?