'All-movement' campaign seeks to increase support for independence in Scotland with advanced campaigning and media work
THE FUNDRAISER for an "all-movement" campaign for Scottish independence has raised over £10,000 in just a few hours.
Pro-independence parties lost majority in Catalan Parliament earlier this week
THE SPANISH deputy Prime Minister has erroneously claimed that the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 was not agreed between the Scottish and UK Governments.
In 2012 the Edinburgh Agreement was signed by former First Minister Alex Salmond and former Prime Minister David Cameron agreeing to a legally binding Scottish independence referendum.
Common Weal director Robin McAlpine argues that the Yes movement desperately needs to identify a strategy to get to independence, and then pursue it without fear
‘WAIT until the autumn – just be patient. By the end of October there will be a firm date for an independence referendum and a clear strategy will be set out. You don't need to worry your head about it.’ Or so I have been told a number of times over the last year. So can we have a serious debate about strategy now?
Steven Keith, a Scottish essayist, artist and poet living for 20 years in India, says that the political constraints on party’s means non-party Yes activists need to use their greater freedom to win the hearts of No voters
Alan Petrie from the Aberdeen Independence Movement and Siobhan Tolland from the Dundee & Angus independence group write a joint article about why a totally different movement for independence is needed now than in 2014 – one that is about building a new country, not protest
SNP leader says Westminster parties "will not deny Scotland's right to choose"
FIRST MINISTER Nicola Sturgeon has told her party conference that the Conservatives and Labour party "will not deny Scotland's right to choose" on independence.
Her comments come at the end of a party conference season which has seen both Scottish Tory and Scottish Labour leaders intervene at their UK conferences to promise opposition to any second referendum on Scottish independence in their next General Election manifesto.
The first minister’s conference speech showed that the case for independence remains strong – but offers little strategy for achieving it
OKAY, CAMPERS. Rise and shine. Don’t forget your booties, ‘cause it’s cold out there. It’s cold out there every day.
On Day Two of the SNP 2018 conference, we asked delegates when they think the next Scottish independence referendum should take place.
Many felt that waiting until after Brexit was the right thing to do with the uncertainty of the deal making the situation too precarious at the moment. Other wanted time to be able to re-energise and build a campaign, or wait until all the factors were favourable.
On Day 2 of the Scottish National Party’s 2018 conference, CommonSpace sat down to talk about the prospects of a Scottish independence referendum with Mike Russell MSP for Argyll & Bute and Cabinet Secretary for Government Business & Constitutional Relations.
SNP Westminster leader reiterates that the Scottish Government will only accept a deal that keeps Scotland in the single market and customs union.
SNP WESTMINSTER LEADER Ian Blackford has told delegates at the party’s ongoing conference that they can expect “maximum disruption” from the party’s MPs over Brexit, following the release of SNP-commissioned polling that suggests a no-deal Brexit would increase support for independence.