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Campaigning in the New Normal

It’s been four months since Glasgow P4Indy folk have done any street campaigning. We’ve had online meetings. We’ve had some really good speakers. And we’ve had more people coming to the line meetings than come to our usual monthly meetings in Glasgow city centre. That all changed a day or so ago …. Two of […]

The Importance of Knowing Your Country’s History

Dr Elspeth King is a Scottish curator, writer and social historian. She is known for her role as curator of social history at the People’s Palace Museum in Glasgow, as Director the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, and for her scholarship on the Scottish Suffrage movement. She studied Medieval History at University of St Andrews. One of the reasons she chose […]

Economics & Currency in a New Scotland

This month’s meeting of Edinburgh & Lothians Group featured Andy Anderson. It was after the 2014 Referendum that Andy decided to do something about getting the message over to Scots about how we could create the kind of economy that would best support our nation and how we can set up our own currency. He […]

Craig Murray: Ways Forward To Independence

On 3 July, Glasgow P4Indy group hosted a digital meeting to hear Craig Murray speak about Ways Forward to Independence especially those avenues available to us internationally. After his talk Craig took questions from the meeting. Sixty people joined us for the event from all over Scotland. You can listen to the talk here: And […]

Tim Rideout: the Timeline for Setting Up a Scottish Currency

Our Greater Glasgow Group are meeting via Zoom every couple of weeks in this lockdown period. This week they invited Dr Tim Rideout to talk to about setting up a Scottish Currency. The video below isn’t from the meeting today but it’s pretty much the same talk. There is a shorter version of the talk […]

Our Article In the National

The article was published in the National on 28 May. We were asked to contribute to the series which they are running just now highlighting the groups who have received grants from the Scottish Independence Foundation. Here’s the text of the article which was written by Alan Logue co-Convenor of our National Group. Our age […]

#EverythingMustChange

CommonWeal are starting a ReBuild initiative to address how we move forward post-coronavirus. Here Mary McCabe tells us her thoughts on the subject: There are two schools of thought about the world post Covid-19. One: Plans to overhaul the system or to reform the constitution are navel-gazing. We must get back to where we were […]

Paisley’s Radical Uprising of 1820

Mary McCabe, co-convenor of our P4Indy National Group writes: Many of you will have heard of the Radical Wars which swept across West Central Scotland in the early 19th century and which culminated in the 1820 Scottish Uprising. This is a little-known episode of Scottish history, with the reports of what happened suppressed at the […]

The Declaration – the letter of Liberty

Yesterday, had things been otherwise, I would have been up in Arbroath celebrating the 700th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration. I’m sure that many of you would have been there too. And I’m sure that at some point we will be there enjoying a belated gathering. In the meantime we have Lesley Riddoch […]

Two Closes, a Referendum & Much More

Continuing our Podcast Series, this is part 2 of the interview with Mary McCabe on IndyLive Radio. It was recorded on 18 Dec 2019 with Val Gauld and Marlene Halliday. In this one we cover : how Mary came to write her novel “Two Closes & a Referendum” was the referendum really as divisive as […]

Glasgow Group Christmas Shindig!

The Glasgow P4Indy Party with Everything!! Act 1: a Scots Language Quiz The quiz was provided by Liz Thomas. The team of Anne Clark, Mary Stuart and Vi Williamson carried off the prize with a perfect score of 26 out of 26.  Act 2: Drama: “Coulda Been a Contender” This was a tragi-comedy featuring thespians […]

Mary McCabe, Veteran Indy Campaigner

Our podcasts are all listed on the dropdown menu at the top of the page. This is our second podcast recorded on 18th December in the IndyLive Radio studio in Glasgow as part of the IndyLive Daily Show. It was an all women team that morning with Val on the mixing desk and me doing […]