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Humza Yousaf must recover the co-operative spirit of the Yes movement

COMMENT Humza Yousaf must recover the co-operative spirit of the Yes movement
MANY SNP members I talk to privately fear their party is about to embark on the same path Labour in Scotland has followed since devolution, electing a series of short lived leaders who fail to halt the decline.

NHS staff have been pushed to the limit as a 'perfect storm' of pressures puts the health service in crisis

COMMENT With the NHS in crisis, all private finance contracts must be terminated NOW

THE NHS is facing its greatest crisis yet. Everyone is agreed on that. Public confidence in, and satisfaction with, the service has never been weaker. Waiting times and waiting lists have never been longer, vacancies for staff never higher and morale never lower.

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It is now time to re-energise the Yes movement and unblock the road to a referendum

COMMENT Scotland's parliamentary route is blocked so Yes must change tack

THE UK Supreme Court’s ruling blocking a second independence referendum came as no surprise to the Scottish Socialist Party. We had warned for many months that this judgment was inevitable. This legal challenge was, in our view, always likely to end this way and the outcome signals that the parliamentary road to independence is now

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We need to understand that we Yes voters are in the minority here – and we’re trying to inflict the biggest defeat on the British state in 300 years

REVIEW Scotland Rising by Gerry Hassan: Key questions about the case for Yes left unasked

THE First Minister’s strategy for achieving independence chills me to the bone. And I’m not the only one. Why? Because having failed for eight years to persuade a majority of Scots about the merits of independence and having capitulated to Boris Johnson’s refusal to grant another referendum, Nicola Sturgeon has been reduced to begging the UK Supreme Court to override the central provisions of the 1997 Scotland Act.

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The Yes case must break away from the past

comment Yes must make the case for change - not the status quo - to win independence

I READ with interest the interview in the Sunday National with Blair Jenkins, my former colleague on the Yes Scotland Advisory Board, about organising for indyref2.

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Those who want to game the Scottish Parliament system should expect the SNP to fight back

National Extra Pro-indy parties that want to 'game' the Holyrood system are missing the point

THERE is a paradox or two behind the voices that have emerged in recent weeks to recommend how independence supporters cast their second vote next May. But that debate is somewhat superfluous compared to the ones that should concentrate our minds most.

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Who can forget Gordon Brown's desperate 'vow' in the final days of the campaign promising 'more powers for the Scottish Parliament'

national extra Indy supporters who are not nationalists should back SSP instead of Labour

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The case for a National Care Service run alongside the NHS is supported by eminent public health clinicians

comment Colin Fox: Why Scotland needs to have a National Care Service

THE coronavirus debate is beginning, tentatively, to focus on the lessons to be learned from this pandemic and how we are to avoid making such far-reaching mistakes – such as the number of care home fatalities – should another occur in the future.

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Colin Fox is the national co-spokesperson of the Scottish Socialist Party

COMMENT Colin Fox: Why the SSP is a better alternative to Starmer's Labour plans

The widely anticipated victory of Sir Keir Starmer today as Labour's new party leader not only puts the first ever knight of the realm at their head; it marks the end of the Corbyn era and the policies he advocated.

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Nicola Sturgeon's promise to keep Scotland in the EU 'put the independence cart before the UK horse'

COMMENT 'Nicola Sturgeon’s Brexit defeat is every bit as profound as Jeremy Corbyn’s'

By Colin Fox of the Scottish Socialist Party

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