The Scottish independence referendum was the climax of a phase in politics when many people on the left - on either side of the debate - had a good sense of what was to be done. They didn’t always agree, but it often felt like the energy would endure regardless.
The decade that followed was shaped by the sense that the winners had lost and the losers had won. The SNP skyrocketed. Labour collapsed. Parts of the left in Scotland turned to Corbyn’s leadership, only for the left of UK Labour to be decimated.
After ten years, things are shifting again with the SNP’s decline, signs of a Scottish Labour revival, and the left talking afresh about new formations. But is it clear ten years after the referendum what the left in Scotland should now do? What is to be done?
Cailean Gallagher is joined by Sarah Collins and Chris Stephens to offer an answer to Lenin’s question.
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Production Credits: Cailean Gallagher, Rory Hamilton and Coll McCail.
Music Credit: Anna Tait Westwell

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