http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/images/rise_scot.jpgThe evidence for the SNP's "Neo Liberalism with a Heart" is plentiful. The SNP opposes Trident based on the Clyde but supports Scottish membership of NATO. It opposes austerity on paper but imposes large-scale cuts in local councils and has just adopted Tory demands to introduce testing in schools. It supports House of Lords abolition but backs the monarchy. The list goes on. In this context, the pro-independence left not convinced by the SNP and alienated by Labour's -- left-led or not -- anti-independence stance have begun to organise to make a challenge at next year's Scottish Parliament polls. Inspired both by the pro-independence mass politics of the referendum and the examples of Syriza and Podemos among others they have formed RISE: Scotland's Left Alliance. RISE stands for Respect, Independence, Socialism and Environmentalism.

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