Pro INDEPENDENCE (Alba/Cymru/United Ireland). European. Angered to see Scotland taken out of the European Union against the democratic will of its people.
Listen as our columnist and economist Richard Murphy clashes with BBC Radio Scotland presenter Connie McLaughlin as he rips into the corporation for being “biased against the nationalist cause”
🗣️ 'It [The BBC] is biased against the nationalist cause in Scotland'
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On July 13, 2025, our boat Handala will depart from Syracuse, Italy to challenge Israel’s illegal and deadly blockade of Gaza. This mission is for Gaza’s children — for their right to live, to eat, to dream, and to survive.
Just weeks ago, Israeli forces hijacked our boat Madleen in international waters and abducted 12 unarmed civilians. This is the lawlessness we’re confronting.
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How Pre-Independence "Civic Nationalism" Became a Colonial Instrument of British i.e. English Transnational Subjugation against Scotland, a crime against Scots, a Weapon of English Settler Colonialism, & Engineered the Rigging of the 2014 Referendum Against the Scottish Nation. The Scottish National Party (SNP) played a central role in enabling this structure.
Scotland is the nation of the Scots & its UN decolonization has started.
Civic nationalism, when introduced before the recovery of sovereignty, becomes a political instrument of containment. Rather than advance decolonization, it disciplines the colonised population within the language of managed fairness. Sovereignty is reframed as inclusion. The historical nation is reduced to a civic space. Memory is replaced by residency. Justice is filtered through the logic of administrative balance. The struggle for national self-determination is neutralised by legal procedure.
A people under occupation cannot define themselves through the criteria of those who occupy them. Scots are not English/British and vice versa. Self-determination begins with the assertion of national authorship. The nation speaks first & defines its people, its history, its moral claim to exist. No liberation movement has succeeded by allowing the coloniser to decide who qualifies as part of the nation. Once the right to define is surrendered, every subsequent gesture becomes a performance within the coloniser’s frame. English meddling and interventionism in Scottish affairs must end. Who gave England the right to define Scotland and the Scottish nation?
In 2014, the Scottish people were placed as always in precisely this position of colonial inferiority: the referendum was administered, rigged & manipulated by the British i.e. English state. The legal architecture, the franchise rules, & the conceptual framing were determined in London. According to official census figures, more than 850,000 people born in Scotland were living elsewhere in the fake 'United Kingdom' at the time of the vote. Most of these individuals had been displaced by historical patterns of extraction & marginalisation. Many retained a strong political and cultural identification with the Scottish nation. None were permitted to vote. Another English colonial crime.
In contrast, over 459,000 individuals born in England and resident in Scotland were granted full voting rights. English people, the colonisers of Scotland, allowed to vote on Scotland's sovereignty. Absolutely shameful. No demonstration of national belonging, political awareness, or historical connection was required. Citizens of numerous foreign states were also enfranchised, regardless of familiarity with the independence movement or investment in the outcome. The referendum was structured not as an act of self-definition/self-determination, but as a managed plebiscite in which those most likely to reject independence were granted decisive weight.
Adding to the 459,000 English-born, 17,000 Welsh-born, & 36,000 Northern Ireland-born, around 137,000 other EU-born and 232,000 additional foreign-born residents (e.g. Commonwealth countries) were allowed to vote; so in total around 900,000 non-Scots were granted the right to vote, while over 850,000 Scottish-born individuals living elsewhere in the UK were excluded, not even mentioning the millions of Scots abroad & in the diaspora. The contrast is staggering. Pure colonial manipulation and engineering. This should never have been allowed. Nowhere else in the world but Scotland did this happen. Scotland's self-determination left in the hands of the English coloniser.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) played a central role in enabling this structure.
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You will not get a better description of the truth of what is taking place in Palestine and the shameful British complicity in the whole tragic affair. A great Scottish historian @DalrympleWill telling it like it is.
Scotland’s decolonisation initiated at @UN. Secretary-General @antonioguterres officially notified. Scotland will rally all formerly colonised nations to unite against the English colonial oppressor. Freedom for Scotland. Alba gu bràth. 🏴
England has hidden its colonisation & asset-stripping of Scotland, & Scotland’s massive resource value, under layers of lies & propaganda for hundreds of years.
Scotland rebels every generation (in one form or another) but because our education system was set up to produce workers for the empire, we are permitted no Scottish History or identity.
Any society that has its history so actively erased constantly has major-league problems internally & with gaining & retaining its freedom. This has happened to every English Colony. We are not alone. We were first dragged in & so will likely be last to escape.
Their elites know this & depend on this strategy. So it is your duty, fellow Scots, to inform yourselves of Scotland’s true history - however hard it is to dig up & uncover!
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OUT NOW!… ‘For As Long As But A Hundred Of Us Remain Alive’
A new book that charts the rise of the movement for Scottish Independence and illustrates the interventions made by the Security Services in frustrating that goal.
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OUT NOW!… ‘For As Long As But A Hundred Of Us Remain Alive’
A new book that charts the rise of the movement for Scottish Independence and illustrates the interventions made by the Security Services in frustrating that goal