Introducing Adam Ramsay's new book, '42 reasons to support Scottish Independence', Hilary Wainwright outlines the radical case for independence.
Anabel Hernández: Breaking the silenceSiobhan McGuirk spoke to Anabel Hernández, the investigative journalist whose book Narcoland brought international attention to Mexican politicians’ collusion with drug cartels – and led to a wave of threats against her
Jeremy Hardy thinks... about the union'It’s always an intellectual fudge for the left, whereby folksy, blood-and-soil nonsense is inspiring up until the moment of independence but no further'
'Every year there are 27,000 bikes abandoned and 20,000 refugees arriving. We match the two'The Bike Project is making London more accessible for refugees and changing the profile of cycling, writes Lauren Van Schaik Smith
Essay: Dealing with debtThe global justice movement of the 1990s and early 2000s focused on national debt. Its heirs should join forces with the nascent movements against micro-debt to present a challenge to the whole debt economy, argues George Caffentzis
Sowing the seeds of a new economyPractical alternative economic models are rapidly taking shape in practice in Catalonia. Are the indignados finally harvesting? asks Peter de Jong
Newcastle: the pretty and the (not so) grittyMichelle Zellers takes us on a tour of Newcastle, sharing the city’s radical history, its green spaces and where to head for a night out on the Tyne