The resolution below was passed at the RIC AGM yesterday afternoon, 31st January 2021. Radical Independence Campaign (Scotland) as a national organisation has dissolved. An archive project will be undertaken.
https://t.co/r5iJWgiHtm
The right love freeports because they let them bypass regulation and bypass tax – but the supposed economic benefits don't add up.
Economic policy analyst @MiriamBrett spoke in a personal capacity at our online public meeting last night.
Full video: https://t.co/e1Pn0jLAtC
📢 No 2 Freeports - Public Meeting
📍Wednesday 25th of November
⏰ via Zoom @ 7pm
🗣 @MiriamBrett, Stuart Fairweather & More TBC
Register below 👇🏻👇🏻
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£££££££££££ are pouring into pockets of absentee owners through government grants. Workers are left to bear the brunt of the tourism crisis. >ZERO and the Scottish Tourism Workers' League are here to help workers support each other when they face redundancy, removal and eviction.
1. We are going to publish a series of columns on the way Common Weal policy can answer the questions thrown up by the virus: economic survival, social survival, politics and democracy, rebuilding the economy and society, the transition to a Green New Deal.
#EverythingMustChange
Stirling University taught English to Saudi air force cadets, despite UN investigators finding Saudi air strikes in #Yemen might amount to war crimes.
https://t.co/cY9ZANCLuT
This is excellent on sustaining community cohesion from @Common_Weal. And do read their Green New Deal proposal as a basis for lasting economic stimulus - full pdf at https://t.co/x7UJ3wg62q. Tax Research website says it’s the best New Deal proposal they’ve seen.
An appalling indictment of our corporatised university system - at the time as suspending their own students for supporting strike action, @StirUni hosted trainee Saudi Air Force pilots - profiting from the brutal war in Yemen
Stirling university is being criticised for opening its doors to a Saudi military academy that trains pilots for an air force accused of war crimes. https://t.co/B6idPzGrni
Yesterday, I introduced my Workers (Definition and Rights) Bill.
Thanks to @scottishTUC, @Feeding_Britain, and the @betterthanzero campaign for providing examples to demonstrate why we require a Bill which will give working people greater protection.
https://t.co/K9WGhHfftJ
The next meeting of Glasgow RIC takes place on Wed March 4th. Read more about Free Ports and why we should oppose them on @bellacaledonia by @GeorgeKerevan. Meeting introduced by @Jonathon_Shafi
Awesome to hear - this pragmatism is a reflection of the increasing maturity of the movement!
Can't wait to work positively with @Radical_Indy again on the kind of activism that has been proven to advance our cause 😊