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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

AUOB is quick off the mark after the GE result and is now organising a march through Glasgow on 11th Jan leaving at 11.30 from Kelvingrove Park and heading through the city centre to Glasgow Green PROCESSION ROUTE: Kelvingrove Park, Kelvinway, Gibson Street, Eldon Street, Woodlands Road, Sauchiehall Street, Pitt Street, Blythswood Square (S), West George […]

On Sunday 10 Nov around 25 people assembled in the Dunblane Centre to discuss setting up a local Pensioners for Indy group. Some of us who are engaged in the Greater Glasgow and Edinburgh & Lothians groups went along too. Our National Coordinating group can support new groups starting up with campaigning advice – if […]

On Saturday 20,000 people (according to the organisers) or 10,000 people (according to the police) squeezed themselves into Glasgow’s George Square to listen to an array of speakers on the theme of Scottish Independence. As is usual it was all videoed by the IndependenceLiveStreaming team and if you missed it, or couldn’t hear it, you […]

Recently we’e been in contact with some of the folk who run the Brechin Yes Hub. Here’s what they said: The Brechin Hub, the aptly named Blether-In, was opened roughly two years ago in premises we rent in the centre of the town. The membership fund its operation by  some monthly direct debit payments and some […]

By coincidence, in the same week as we have been promoting our new leaflet on Pensions, a motion was passed at the SNP Conference calling for an increase of State Pension in an Independent Scotland to the same level as the OECD average and supporting the commissioning of a Scottish State Pension Plan. The data […]