Independence

Exploring Sovereignty in Scotland

Author / Creator: David McCrone

Media type: Article

Date published: 2022

Scottish independence movement places independence in a European context of shared sovereignty. 


A Second Scottish Independence Referendum: Should the Diaspora get a Vote?

Author / Creator: Murray Stewart Leith

Media type: Article

Date published: 2023

The 2014 referendum result did not end the debate around Scottish independence.


Labour, the Starmer Project, the Battle for Britain and Our Collective Future

Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan

Media type: Blog

Date published: 2024

This is an age of anti-incumbency. Yet the scale of Labour’s emerging unpopularity is striking.


UNDERSTANDING STARMER – POWER AND OPPRESSION

Author / Creator: George Gunn

Media type: Blog

Date published: 2025

Starmer unthinkingly apes Trump.  This is an opportunity for independence followers.


Scotland Ten Years on from the Indyref

Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan

Media type: Blog

Date published: 2024

It is no accident that the bigger dynamics that flowed from 2014 beyond independence have been so conspicuously not taken up or championed by the SNP and Scottish Government. They barely understood some of the forces at work which produced the 2014 indyref beyond the SNP’s 2011 victory.


Catalonia and Scotland: Nations in Flux

Author / Creator: Paul Anderson

Media type: Blog

Date published: 2024

Debates on nationalism and independence in Western Europe (and beyond) have been dominated by discussions on events in Catalonia and Scotland.


Scotland’s Economy: the case for independence

Author / Creator: Scottish Government

Media type: Report

Date published: 2014

For centuries Scotland has been at the heart of global economic innovation.  This is no longer the case.


How did we get here? The SNP’s unravelling political strategy and the 2024 UK General Election

Author / Creator: Mark McGeoghegan

Media type: Article

Date published: 2024

How did the SNP fail to gain a second independence referendum?


‘Yes’ A non-nationalist argument for Scottish independence

Author / Creator: Neil Davidson

Media type: Article

Date published: 2014

The problems posed by independence are not directly economic, but are related to the capitalist economy through a series of mediations.


Thrive: The Freedom To Flourish

Author / Creator: Lesley Riddoch

Media type: Book

Date published:

In Thrive, Lesley Riddoch makes an impassioned case for independence, weaving academic evidence with story, international comparison with anecdote, to explain why Scotland is ready to step forward as the world’s newest state.


Scotland and independence

Author / Creator: Scottish Independence Foundation

Media type: Book

Date published: 2021

The aim of this booklet is to describe briefly the case for an
independent Scotland and how it may be achieved


Building a New Scotland: Our marine sector in an independent Scotland

Author / Creator: Scottish Government

Media type: White paper

Date published: 2024

Scotland’s marine sector is an area of significant size, strength and value.


Building a New Scotland: Our marine sector in an independent Scotland

Author / Creator: Scottish Government

Media type: White paper

Date published: 2024

Scotland’s marine sector is an area of significant size, strength and value.


Scottish Independence, then and now

Author / Creator: Nicola McEwen

Media type: Podcast

Date published: 2021

How have matters changed since 2014 as a result of Brexit and Covid?


The contradictory political economy of an independent Scotland

Author / Creator: Axel Ruppert

Media type: Thesis

Date published: 2016

Scottish identity is used to frame values that are shared all over the UK as genuinely Scottish.


The social contract: re-framing scottish nationalism

Author / Creator: Jonathan Hearn

Media type: Article

Date published: 1998

The deeply entrenched nature of Scottish civil society is a key factor in the current strength of autonomist politics in Scotland.


Best start for independent Scotland

Author / Creator: Common Weal

Media type: Video

Date published: 2024

How To Start A New Country 


Why Scotland should be independent

Author / Creator: John Randall

Media type: Article

Date published: 2023

An Economist's case for independence


Yes Scotland

Author / Creator: Scottish National Party

Media type: Website

Date published: 2023 -

The SNP have launched a revamped Yes Scotland website with the aim of “empowering” Scottish independence activists.


The Lesley Riddoch Podcast

Author / Creator: Lesley Riddoch

Media type: Podcast

Date published: 2023 -

Scottish politics dissected from a left, pro-independence stance. Each week, award-winning broadcaster and journalist, Lesley Riddoch chews over the week’s news with former media lecturer and Dundee United fan, Pat Joyce.