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• NO WONDER THE LEFT IS DISCREDITED! NO WONDER PEOPLE DON'T PROTEST!! From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (50 days old)

  NO WONDER THE LEFT IS DISCREDITED THE HIDDEN AGENDA BEHIND SATURDAY’S PROTEST AGAINST HOUSING BENEFIT CHANGES This Sunday morning, I read that celebrity socialist Tommy Sheridan has stood down fro… more

• THE SO-CALLED BEDROOM TAX, HOUSING BENEFIT CUTS AND THE BIGGEST LAND GRAB IN LIVING MEMORY From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (50 days old)

  THE SO-CALLED BEDROOM TAX, HOUSING BENEFIT CUTS AND THE BIGGEST LAND GRAB IN LIVING MEMORY According to one of the world’s richest men, Andrew Mellon, “In a depression assets return to their rightf… more

• SINGLE ENDS AND HOBBIT HOUSES From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (164 days old)

  SINGLE ENDS AND HOBBIT HOUSES When debating supporters of capitalism and capitalist markets I am told about the system’s greater efficiency in the use of natural resources. At this point, I ask my… more

• ISRAEL, PALESTINE, TWO STATES, ONE STATE … OR BOTH? From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (164 days old)

  TWO STATES, ONE STATE … OR BOTH? After Zionism. One State for Israel and Palestine. Edited by Antony Loewenstein & Ahmed Moor, SAQI Books, 2012. £10.99. At a Glasgow May Day Rally some year… more

• CUBA’S ELECTIONS: THE STORY THE PRESS DIDN’T REPORT From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (165 days old)

  CUBA’S ELECTIONS: THE STORY THE PRESS DIDN’T REPORT In a fascinating article The Guardian (1) has reported the fact that a Cuban male-to-female transsexual has been elected to the municipal governm… more

• The Good News. Scotland Needs to Re-Apply for EU Membership From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (165 days old)

  The Good News. Scotland Needs to Re-Apply for EU Membership Alex Salmond and the Scottish Government have been trying to close down inconvenient political openings for some time now. The leaked le… more

• BARBARIC: THE UK GOVERNMENT'S RENT REFORMS From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (196 days old)

  BARBARIC: THE UK GOVERNMENT'S RENT REFORMS Published: Scottish Review 21 August 2012 Murdo Ritchie I probably agree with Anonymous (“We are heading for the biggest housing crisis in the UK’s h… more

• THE MYTH OF “REAL” INDEPENDENCE From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (196 days old)

  THE MYTH OF “REAL” INDEPENDENCE As the Independence Referendum moves on the issues get clearer and clearer. The main supporters of the “Yes” vote are attempting to assume all sorts of internationa… more

• THE SLIPPERY SLOPE The Consequences of the SNP Conference Decision on NATO From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (202 days old)

  THE SLIPPERY SLOPE The Consequences of the SNP Conference Decision on NATO “We are being deceived into thinking that we are safe with NATO-friendly nationalists when instead we have a disgraceful … more

• THE RADICAL INDEPENDENCE CONVENTION WHICH WAY FORWARD? From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (203 days old)

  THE RADICAL INDEPENDENCE CONVENTION WHICH WAY FORWARD? Published: Emancipational & Liberation Republican Communist Network (Scotland) Sunday, October 28th, 2012 http://republicancommunist.or… more

• RADICAL INDEPENDENCE CONVENTION. WHY? From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (206 days old)

  RADICAL INDEPENDENCE CONVENTION. WHY? I attended a meeting of the self-described Radical Independence Convention on Saturday, June 2nd. It was the last time I attended this body. It is holding a … more

• WHY THE INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM IS BEING TURNED INTO ONE ON NATO From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (304 days old)

  WHY THE INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM IS BEING TURNED INTO ONE ON NATO The coming referendum on Scottish independence is rapidly being turned into one on NATO membership too. It is consciously being use… more

• KHALIL DALE: AN APPRECIATION From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (310 days old)

  KHALIL DALE: AN APPRECIATION I briefly met Khalil Dale, the aid worker who was found beheaded in Pakistan in late April. Although I only spoke to him for a few minutes, he made a very powerful imp… more

• IN DEFENCE OF HOUSING BENEFIT. WHY REGULAR BOUTS OF HOMELESSNESS ARE NOW GOVERNMENT POLICY From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (310 days old)

  IN DEFENCE OF HOUSING BENEFIT WHY REGULAR BOUTS OF HOMELESSNESS ARE NOW GOVERNMENT POLICY As Housing Benefit is replaced by a so-called Universal Credit, not only is a benefit being removed but a … more

• MORE OF THE SAME IS NOT ENOUGH From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (328 days old)

  MORE OF THE SAME IS NOT ENOUGH The Consequences for the Left of the Scottish Local Government Elections of 2012 The crucial feature of the Scottish local government elections in2012 is the conti… more

• HOUSING BENEFIT FOR UNDER TWENTY-FIVES From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (331 days old)

  The government plans to remove Housing Benefit from people under twenty-five, in order to “make work pay.” Housing Benefit is payable to people in or out of work. That means many people who are curr… more

• DOG WHISTLES From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (335 days old)

  According to the BBC today, Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson is now denying he made promises to the Orange Order to alter the current plans to cap the number of "walks" through the City. … more

• BETTER TOGETHER? From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (336 days old)

  BETTER TOGETHER? I felt I was growing old when I told people that there used to be regular stories in the press, usually around the Winter Solstice, when some protestant clergyman or headmaster wou… more

• WHY I JOINED THE SCOTTISH SOCIALIST PARTY … AND WHY I LEFT From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (336 days old)

  WHY I JOINED THE SCOTTISH SOCIALIST PARTY … AND WHY I LEFT WHY I JOINED THE SCOTTISH SOCIALIST PARTY… I applied for membership of the SSP the night Tommy Sheridan was sentenced on January 26th, … more

• AFTER THE TSUNAMI From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (336 days old)

  This appraisal of the Scottish Parliamentary elections was written for discussion within the SSP. However, the failure to hold branch meetings until around November meant this never happened. The … more

• WHAT VALUES FOR SCOTLAND? REPEAL SECTION 28 From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (336 days old)

  WHAT VALUES FOR SCOTLAND? REPEAL SECTION 28 by MURDO RITCHIE Published: Socialist News, June/ July 2000 The battle over Section 28 in Scotland has taken on uglier features than elsewhere in … more

• WHAT A WAY TO RUIN A RAILWAY! From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (336 days old)

  WHAT A WAY TO RUIN A RAILWAY! Murdo Ritchie Published Scottish Socialist Voice, October 14th- 27th, 2011 Privat… more

• THE OTHER MURDOCH SCANDAL From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (336 days old)

  THE OTHER MURDOCH SCANDAL By Murdo Ritchie Published Scottish Socialist Voice, August 5th-18th, 2011 The invisible man leaves the British Cabinet* humbled after getting caught invading others… more

• WHY LABOUR CAN'T WIN From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (336 days old)

  WHY LABOUR CAN’T WIN The Silence About Westminster Boundary Changes Murdo Ritchie Published Scottish Socialist Voice February 24th- March 8th, 2012 under title “Boundary Changes End Labour Chance… more

• MIGRANTS AND HOUSING From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (336 days old)

  Comment in The Guardian April 13th,2007 (Four weeks after this post was written, I received an unsolicited application form for new housing asking me to promptly complete it. Because, I now receiv… more

• ENDING RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION IN SCOTTISH SCHOOLS From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (336 days old)

  ENDING RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION IN SCOTTISH SCHOOLS by MURDO RITCHIE Published: Socialist News, December 2004/ January 2005 Since the founding of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, the Catholic… more

• WHAT PENSIONS CRISIS? From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (336 days old)

  WHAT PENSIONS CRISIS? by MURDO RITCHIE Published: Socialist News, Unable to locate date WRITTEN AROUND 2003 There is no pensions crisis. But there is a crisis of employment, welfare, … more

• RESISTING THE WAR DRIVE From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (337 days old)

  WHO WON THE WAR? THE WAR BEHIND THE WAR IN LIBYA Murdo Ritchie Gaddafi is dead, and now the Transitional National Council is in power. Why did the major powers intervene in Libya when they ref… more

• GLASGOW'S HOUSING PRIVATISATION From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (337 days old)

  THESE ARE SOME ARTICLES I WROTE ON GLASGOW'S HOUSING PRIVATISATION. OUR FIGHT GOES ON by MURDO RITCHIE (Vice-Chair of the Glasgow Campaign Against Housing Stock Transfers) Published Socialist… more

• VICTORY OPENS UP NEW FRONTS From MurdoRitchie in MurdoRitchie Blog (337 days old)

  VICTORY OPENS UP NEW FRONTS by MURDO RITCHIE on Scotland’s referendum result Published: Socialist News, November/ December 1997 Scotland’s Referendum results are the victorious climax of over… more

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