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Twenty-five years ago this coming Monday, on May 6, 1999, Tommy Sheridan was elected to the Scottish Parliament as a Scottish Socialist Party member…

SCOTLAND SUPPLEMENT III - Separatism, federalism, centralism Breaking apart existing states is not the road to socialism, but the road to defeat, writes Jack Conrad Those who rigidly adhere to a moralistic, third-worldist anti-imperialism cannot possibly bring themselves to countenance self-determination for ‘unworthy’ peoples - the most obvious example being Israeli Jews and the British-Irish in the six counties of Northern Ireland. 1 Given its junior role in building, administering and maintaining what was a vast British empire, that must include Scotland too. After all, historically, e...

SCOTLAND SUPPLEMENT II - A joint oppressor Left nationalists are in thrall to a bogus history, argues Jack Conrad. Scotland was not subject to an English takeover with the 1707 Act of Union. Nor does Scotland suffer from English cultural imperialism Europe’s first nations had an embryonic existence, which for the sake of neatness is usually dated back to the 13th and 14th centuries. Here we have fertilisation, eg, Geoffrey Chaucer and his use of Middle English in works such as Tales of Caunterbury (1400). At the time the prestigious languages in England were Norman-French and Latin. Chauce...