There's a perception held by many on the pro-independence left that the SNP have tied themselves too readily to continuity EU membership. But what are the alternatives? Marty Smith, co-founder of Autonomy, a new “grassroots movement for SNP activists to campaign against European Union membership for an independent Scotland”, sets out their ideas...

Events in Catalonia are unraveling at a dramatic pace: Catalan ministers have now been placed into custody and leader Carles Puidgemont is in Belgium. Writing from Barcelona, Jonathon Shafi, co-founder of the Radical Independence Campaign and a signatory to the newly formed Catalan Defence Committee Scotland, argues there needs to be a Europe-wide response from the left...