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Rory Hamilton
@roryhamilton.bsky.social
📚 Researching Democratic Localism at UofG Urban Studies
🚩 Common Weal Comms & Campaigns
✊ Skotia, UCU Glasgow, Living Rent and Campaign for Socialism (when I have the time)
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Last night, our Campaigns Coordinator @roryhamilton.bsky.social was at @getglasgowmoving.bsky.social AGM, having been a coalition partner for a number of years.

After a huge year in 2024, here’s to bringing Glasgow’s buses into public ownership and delivering for the people of Strathclyde ✊
February 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
In Lanark, Alasdair Gray conveys the difficulty that comes with being a socialist and believing in a better world.

Yes, the love in our socialism is intense and fierce, and the pain is difficult, but where would we be without an intense desire for something better: commonweal.scot/to-be-a-soci...
To be a socialist is to love
Rory Hamilton “She never recognised him if he was with friends. These insults filled reservoirs of rage which evaporated whenever she smiled at him. And when their bodies accidentally touched a cur…
commonweal.scot
February 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Where would we be without an intense desire for something better. As Simone De Beauvoir once said, "One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, compassion."

@roryhamilton.bsky.social at: commonweal.scot/to-be-a-soci...
To be a socialist is to love
Rory Hamilton “She never recognised him if he was with friends. These insults filled reservoirs of rage which evaporated whenever she smiled at him. And when their bodies accidentally touched a cur…
commonweal.scot
February 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My latest for @thecommonweal.bsky.social (now on Bluesky as well).

With 25 years to go until the global target for Net Zero, what will it take to get actual progress on climate change?

commonweal.scot/the-climate-...
The climate double standard
Rory Hamilton Is it just me or does it feel that climate change has fallen off the mainstream media’s agenda? It seems an age since Greta Thunberg was making headlines as part of a global movement …
commonweal.scot
January 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM