David Jamieson argues that the coalition government means more phony ‘progress‘ for Scotland and that independence is the only basis for the new administration’s legitimacy.

David Jamieson asks if the dominant parties in England and Scotland are really that stable after a week that challenged both.

David Jamieson warns Scotland has fallen far behind global developments, and that the promotion of myths about the country will only hurt the left in England.

David Jamieson argues that 20 years on, the disaster of the ‘War on Terror‘ is still felt in the decline of the Labour party.

Labour’s collapsing prospects across Britain show its problems go far beyond the useless leadership of Keir Starmer, argue David Jamieson.

David Jamieson asks how much longer official anti-politics can hold the ring in Scotland.

Friday's announcement by Alex Salmond of his new party has exposed further cracks in the SNP ahead of the Scottish parliamentary elections – but the real drama of the battle over independence is yet to come, argues David Jamieson.

David Jamieson looks back to the ways in which the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) anticipated and shaped the politics of recent years.

David Jamieson argues that the heat of SNP infighting his hiding fundamental contradictions in the leadership’s politics.

David Jamieson reflects on the profound ideological changes in Scotland over the last 20 years, by recalling the now apparently lost politics of his grandparents.

With the US inauguration the site of a major ideological offensive, David Jamieson argues the now regime has implications for us all.

David Jamieson argues the coming period will see constant elite pleas for the public to endorse a false egalitarianism.

Capitalists and their institutions are not in a serious conflict over the failing ‘just transition‘ in Scotland, argues David Jamieson.

In the first of two a two part essay on the problems of modern socialist though, Conter editor David Jamieson looks at major developments in the reproduction of intellectual life in the last century. In the second part he will discuss the consequences for how socialists tend to think about their world today, and an approach to overcome some of our weaknesses.

In his weekly column, Conter editor David Jamieson says pro-independence socialists must re-asses the national question.

In a review of the BBC’s Inside the Bruderhof, David Jamieson argues that attempts to escape capitalism are inevitable but fraught with danger.

In his weekly column, Conter editor David Jamieson says the school student victory confronts us with a bizarre but welcome new phenomenon – significant reform in the absence of parliamentary reformism.

In his weekly column, Conter editor David Jamieson argues that Scotland’s elites have long promoted illusions in the ability of the school system to alleviate inequality.

Using insights from Belgian Marxist thinker Ernest Mandel, economist George Kerevan argues capitalism will suffer profound breakdown this century.

In his weekly column, David Jamieson surveys the strategic dilemmas facing the left

In the first of a weekly editor’s column, David Jamieson argues socialists need to remember what they are fighting against.

The film Planet of the Humans has been taken down from Youtube, after stirring a major controversy over the usefulness of the renewable energy industry. David Jamieson says its arguments should be taken seriously.

Any hope of putting mass distrust of the establishment to bed with Brexit has evaporated in the heat of the Cummings controversy, argues David Jamieson.