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Announcing the 2023 Declaration of Calton Hill
On September 18th, November 2014, something truly remarkable in politics happened. By the time of the Scottish independence referendum, held on that day, 97% of Scotland’s potential electorate had registered to vote and 85% took part. This level of democracy is something unprecedented anywhere in the UK’s history. This was a Democratic Revolution. If ‘IndyRef1’…
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Defend trans rights and Scottish democracy!
This week, the UK government announced that it will use its veto powers for the first time ever to prevent Scotland’s progressive new gender recognition legislation, approved by a super-majority of MSPs from every political party in the Scottish Parliament, from being signed into law. Independence supporters and LGBT+ activists are coming together across Scotland…
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RIC statement on Supreme Court ruling
This is a dark day for democracy and signals clearly the rotten, undemocratic nature of our broken, union state. The unelected judges of the UK Supreme Court are saying that the Scottish Parliament is permanently vassalled to Westminster and its undemocratic parliament, government and state — that the democratic rights of the Scottish people do…