JS Jones was at the Kenmure street action (13 May) that successfully freed two men from a Home Office raid. He reflects on the complex power dynamics of the day, and how self-organisation created the basis for the victory.

JS Jones looks at the prolonged disenfranchisement of voters in Scotland, and asks how citizens can register their discontent with the entire electoral system.

JS Jones surveys a Scottish political scene that seems hostile to the advance of left politics, but wonders whether electoral developments might create new openings.