Scotland After Britain
Davidson, Neil; Foley, James; Wray, Ben
Language: English
Published by Verso, 2022
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- Title
- Scotland After Britain
- Author
- Davidson, Neil; Foley, James; Wray, Ben
- Publisher
- Verso
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1788735811
- ISBN 13
- 9781788735810
Since the referendum, Scottish independence has been captured by conservative forces. Scotland After Britain argues for fidelity to the true meaning of the word independence. It should mean not only a break from the failing British state, but also from the prison of free trade and militarism that has delivered successive crises. Most of all, independence must honestly address the huge injustices of income, wealth and power that continue to define Scottish society, by restoring agency to working class communities and voters.
Scotland After Britain shines a spotlight on pro-independence politics since Brexit and the pandemic. The Scottish national question has emerged as the biggest fracture in the British state after Brexit. The independence movement emerged from mass public disenchantment at the status quo, yet the SNP continues governing as if that disenchantment never happened, and the party leadership appears increasingly ambivalent about the risks of demanding independence. Most of all, the British state remains hostile to allowing a second referendum, while the SNP leadership has been unwilling to sanction protest beyond the ballot box.
Where do we go from here? Scotland After Britain argues Brexit could force the movement to engage in a reckoning with the true stakes of independence, a process that will inevitably require a breach with the SNP’s establishment vision.
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About the Author
Ben Wray is Head of Policy and Research with Common Weal foundation, is a columnist on the Commonspace website and previously worked for the Jimmy Reid Foundation.
Neil Davidson (1957–2020) lectured in Sociology at the University of Glasgow and is the author of six books, including the Deutscher-Prize-winning Discovering the Scottish Revolution (London: Pluto Press, 2003) and, most recently, Nation-States: Consciousness and Competition (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016). He wrote some of the most widely-read analyses of the previous referendum and Scottish independence for print and on-line journals including Bella Caledonia, Jacobin, New Left Review, Radical Philosophy and Salvage.
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