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Scotland’s republican socialist online magazine. Published by @rsp.scot.

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This is an important and heartfelt letter. Unfortunately there has been a real blindspot among some people on the British and European left. We should oppose imperialism and fascism, wherever they occur.
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An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana
Galina Rymbu, an activist living in Ukraine, responds to Zarah Sultana's recent remarks on support for Ukraine.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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#Caerphilly showed Reform can be beaten, but unity around a republican and ecosocialist strategy – in Wales and in Scotland – will be key to further victories, writes Craig Lewis.
Caerphilly by-election: ‘They’ve chosen hope over division’
Caerphilly showed Reform can be beaten, but unity around a republican and ecosocialist strategy – in Wales and in Scotland – will be key to further victories, writes Craig Lewis.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Thanks @bellacaledonia.bsky.social for sharing our report on union-busting at Rockstar Games!
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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mattbernico.bsky.social
When you think of unions, you might think about guys in hard hats. But, unions are for every single worker.

Baristas, Apple store employees, professional spreadsheet makers, and games workers all need unions!
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Trade unionists are fighting back after Rockstar Games fired more than 30 people in Edinburgh and Dundee in a brazen act of union-busting, Heckle reports. @gameworkers.co.uk
Rockstar North workers fight back against union-busting
Trade unionists are fighting back after Rockstar North fired more than 30 people in Edinburgh and Dundee in a brazen act of union-busting, Heckle reports.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Come see us at Edinburgh’s #RadicalBookFair on Sunday!

We’re looking forward to meeting local activists and talking about using socialist journalism to support our movements.
lighthousebks.bsky.social Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 21d
The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action.

So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Following Zohran Mamdani’s triumph in New York City's mayoral election, we’re revisiting @seancmbell.bsky.social’s July article about his victory in the Democratic primary.
November 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Heckle was delighted to make a small contribution to the fundraising efforts of the first Scottish trade union delegation to Ukraine, whose participants will report back at this free online meeting on Monday at 7pm.
UNISON Scotland Branches Kharkiv Delegation Report Back
4 delegates from UNISON Scotland Branches visited Kharkiv Ukraine recently. Hear about who they met and how funds raised here will be spent
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October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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ICYMI, my tribute to Assata Shakur for @heckle.scot
"Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk and Luigi Mangione’s alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year, there has been much performative hand-wringing over the spectre of political violence; fear of being perceived as sympathetic to such violence or its motivations in any way has led many in the public sphere to debase themselves through grovelling mea culpas and sweaty tributes to the suddenly curtailed life of a white supremacist carnival barker. It has not, to put it mildly, been edifying." "Shakur lived free of this kind of cowardice, empowered by the understanding that the most prevalent and pervasive political violence in any society undergirded by capitalism, imperialism, racism and patriarchy is carried out by the state – a reality affirmed by the thuggish stormtroopers of ICE, the presence of troops on American streets, or the mere sight of a police uniform and all that it implies. Any and all who take issue with the revolutionary violence embraced by Shakur and her comrades must grapple with that."
October 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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One month after her passing, Sean Bell pays tribute to Black revolutionary Assata Shakur. @seancmbell.bsky.social
Assata Shakur told us to win
One month after her passing, Sean Bell pays tribute to Black revolutionary Assata Shakur.
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October 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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A new biography of John Maclean brings fascinating new information to light, writes Iain Gault. @ecosocialist-scot.bsky.social
Review: Great John Maclean Has Come Home to the Clyde
A new biography of John Maclean brings fascinating new information to light, writes Iain Gault.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Global fawning over Trump and his so-called “peace plan” will not force Palestinians into submission, Gilbert Achcar writes. @gilbert-achcar.bsky.social
A festival of obsequiousness – Trump at the Knesset and Sharm el-Sheikh
Global fawning over Trump and his so-called
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October 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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“Capitalism has never existed without also producing the kind of deprivation that inspires those trapped within it to seek escape by whatever means they can, even if that escape leads to oblivion.”
Scotland deserves a better debate on drugs
Opponents of harm reduction cannot be allowed to dominate Scotland's drugs debate in the tragic absence of its most prominent champion, argues Sean Bell.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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"Scotland’s most vocal prohibitionists are wont to refer to harm reduction as a vast and nefarious industry, concerned only with its own enrichment and self-preservation – they should try looking in a mirror. Those fighting to deny Scotland the safe consumption rooms and drug law reform it desperately needs do so because their own approach to addiction is wedded to the War on Drugs that has consistently failed for a century, doing untold harm in the process, to the poorest peoples and nations most of all. Despite this, that war has always been politically advantageous for those who would get on board with it, so it is no surprise that some would rather not see it sink."
October 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Thank you to everyone who came along to our sold-out event with Peter Oborne, discussing his new book Complicit - about UK complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza.

We're still adding up all the raffle money but the event has raised over £2000 for Medical Aid for Palestinians!
October 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Opponents of harm reduction cannot be allowed to dominate Scotland’s drugs debate in the tragic absence of its most prominent champion, argues Sean Bell. @seancmbell.bsky.social
Scotland deserves a better debate on drugs
Opponents of harm reduction cannot be allowed to dominate Scotland's drugs debate in the tragic absence of its most prominent champion, argues Sean Bell.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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#ICYMI: Football’s governing bodies have failed to take action against Israel in a shameful illustration of double standards, wrote Jason Henderson in August. #SCOBEL
The curious case of two empty stadiums in Hungary
Football’s governing bodies have failed to take action against Israel in a shameful illustration of double standards, writes Jason Henderson.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Heckle’s Jennifer Debs speaks to Nico Calabrese, an Argentinian-Brazilian activist sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla.
Sailing for Palestine: Interview with a member of the Global Sumud Flotilla
Heckle's Jennifer Debs speaks to Nico Calabrese, an Argentinian-Brazilian activist sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Obviously, this article was filed before it happened, so my thanks to Keir Starmer for proving my point with his latest characteristically stupid intervention.
News report from The Daily Telegraph: 'Sir Keir Starmer has declared that Labour faces a battle against Reform for the soul of Britain. The Prime Minister said “the battle of our times is between patriotic national renewal” of his Government versus the “toxic divide” offered by Nigel Farage. He said that voters at the next election will not be faced with “the traditional Labour versus Conservative” choice because the Tory party is “dead”. Sir Keir added Labour must reclaim patriotism from Reform by demonstrating to working people that “only we can deliver the pride and belonging they seek”.'
September 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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As flags force their way to the forefront of political discourse, Sean Bell urges those on the left to resist the lure of so-called “progressive patriotism”. @seancmbell.bsky.social
‘Progressive patriotism’ cannot distract from fight against the far-right
As flags force their way to the forefront of political discourse, Sean Bell urges those on the left to resist the lure of so-called
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September 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Fans of the Star Wars series Andor are planning a six-week discussion group to explore and develop its radical political themes.
I Have Friends Everywhere: An ‘Andor’ radical discussion group
Fans of the Star Wars series Andor are planning a six-week discussion group to explore and develop its radical political themes.
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August 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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"Genocide is not an unhappy accident; it is the policy of Israel, and Starmer’s weak-sauce threat to arrive at a party 37 years too late will not dissuade Netanyahu nor the Israeli far-right upon which his government depends – nothing will, so long as the United States remains Israel’s steadfast benefactor." "Starmer almost certainly knows this, which is why recognising a Palestinian state in the wake of the Israeli parliament’s vote to annex the West Bank and Netanyahu’s push to militarily occupy the entirety of Gaza – a plan one Israeli official has referred to as “full conquest” – is, in terms of bleak absurdity, only a few degrees shy of Spain recognising a Catalan republic on the dark side of the moon. It is roughly equivalent to offering those dying daily from a manufactured famine a photograph of thin gruel."
August 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Keir Starmer’s plan to reluctantly recognise a Palestinian state is too little, too late – and will do nothing to bring an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, writes Sean Bell. @seancmbell.bsky.social heckle.scot/2025/08/the-...
The UK’s ‘recognition’ of a Palestinian state is worse than worthless
Keir Starmer’s plan to reluctantly recognise a Palestinian state is too little, too late – and will do nothing to bring an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, writes Sean Bell.
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August 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Football’s governing bodies have failed to take action against Israel in a shameful illustration of double standards, writes Jason Henderson.
The curious case of two empty Hungarian football stadiums
Football’s governing bodies have failed to take action against Israel in a shameful illustration of double standards, writes Jason Henderson.
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August 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Heckle speaks to Living Rent’s Edinburgh City Chair, Joshua Climax, about what needs to be done to deliver a fairer Fringe. @living-rent.bsky.social @seancmbell.bsky.social
Living Rent and the fight for an affordable Edinburgh Fringe
Heckle speaks to Living Rent’s Edinburgh City Chair, Joshua Climax, about what needs to be done to deliver a fairer Fringe.
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August 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM