Motion on Growth Commission recommendations amended to fast-track an independent currency, but the controversial six tests remain

Activists have proposed amendments to SNP leadership motion which would seek to remove the controversial six tests on establishing a Scottish currency

COMMONSPACE editor Ben Wray caught up with George Kerevan, former SNP MP, ahead of the debate on the SNP's position on an independent Scottish currency at the SNP Spring Conference 2019.

The grassroots Campaign for an Independent Currency will seek to amend the motion tying a Scottish currency to “arbitrary” tests and requirements at next month’s SNP conference

Former SNP MP George Kerevan told demonstrators that a majority for independence can only be achieved by campaigning for it

First Unexplained Wealth Order was issued earlier this month

A US-BASED global activism group has started a petition to back former SNP MP George Kerevan’s call for the Scottish Government to issue an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) on US President Donald Trump.

Campaign launched for Scottish citizens to offer free accommodation to visiting Catalans

FOLLOWING the withdrawal of the European Arrest Warrants for Clara Ponsati and all other Catalan politicians sought by the Spanish authorities, the grassroots solidarity organisation Catalan National Assembly (ANC) Scotland has announced a series of actions across Edinburgh this weekend to show support for Catalan political prisoners and exiles.

Articles published by George Kerevan, Jim Cuthbert, Tommy Sheppard MP, Chris Stephens MP, Carolyn Leckie, Maggie Chapman, Colin Fox, Cat Boyd and Jim Sillars on the Growth Commission

TWO pro-independence economists have published articles criticising the central tenets of the SNP’s Growth Commission report, saying its policy prescriptions would not deliver increased growth or productivity for an independent Scotland.

Campaigners welcome the endorsement of SNP grassroots, despite an attempt to remit back the resolution

THE SNP CONFERENCE in Aberdeen today [8 June] voted overwhelmingly to support the creation of a Scottish National Infrastructure Company (SNIC), a public alternative to private sector involvement in the creation of major infrastructure projects such as schools, hospitals and roads.  

Loud cheers for Kerevan’s criticism of Growth Commission currency proposals

FORMER SNP MP and economist George Kerevan told an SNP fringe meeting that “if we don’t have our own currency we are at the mercy of the banks”, during a debate on independence and the Scottish economy.