Politics

See also the old Activism & Politics

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_politics

• BBC Daily and Sunday Politics
• BBC Scottish Politics

• rightsnet.org.uk - welfare rights

Scotland

Edinburgh

• Edinburgh City Council
• What Do They Know? Edinburgh FOI
• Occupy Edinburgh

National

• BBC Democracy Live Scotland
• BBC Brian Taylor Political editor, Scotland
• Scottish Information Commissioner - Facebook
• The Electoral Commission: Scotland

Social media

• inagist.com: scotland
• inagist.com: edinburgh
• r/Scotland/

Policy

• Scottish Policy Now
• European Public Sector Information Platform
• govcampscotland.com

• http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/

Parties

• Scottish Green Party
• Scottish Liberal Democrats
• Scottish National Party
• Scottish Labour
• Scottish Tory

News

• http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics
• http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/politics.html

• http://www.scottishleftreview.org/

Forums

• Scottish Politics & News
• Scotland.com: Scottish Politics
• Scotsgait: Scottish Politics
• Out Scotland: Scottish Politics and Independence
• Scotster: Scottish Politics

UK

• The Electoral Commission: UK
• r/ukpolitics/

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/

Pirate Party UK

• Pirate Party UK forum
  • Pirate Party UK forum (Scotland)

EU

• Scottish MEPs
• EurActiv EU news & policy debates

• http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4755.en.html

World

• http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/
• http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/
• Occupy

• http://www.transparency.org/

Philosophy / policy

to break out http://www.rudebaguette.com/2012/07/02/dragonbox-learning-algebra/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=hackernews&utm_campaign=hackernews

• http://raikoth.net/libertarian.html via andy ducker

• http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/stop-churches-marrying-anyone-says-bisexual-british-political-leader080113 - secularism

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriarchy

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5359458

• http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/why-chemotherapy-that-costs-70000-in-the-us-costs-2500-in-india/274847/ - patent reform

Law

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence

Democracy

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_democracy - before the Commies screwed it up
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberative_democracy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_democracy

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralization
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_democracy

• http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/289947-republican-proposes-letting-lawmakers-work-from-home

Radical

focus on individuals and bottom-up group association, better social process ownership

trend in anarchist circles to hate communists because their style of process fucked up leftism in russia and thus for people other places, though they really just hate big C communists, and this is somewhat legacy groupthink. see the existence of libertarian communists

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lamborn_Wilson

• http://www.ditext.com/proudhon/federation/federation.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_power - direct reformist

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_association
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_without_adjectives

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicalism
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_municipalism
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(economic_theory)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_ecology

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin - later eschewed anarchism

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontalidad

Edinburgh

• http://edinburghanarchists.noflag.org.uk/

Libertarian

Often associated with classical liberalism, but the word was created as using "anarchism" was banned??

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialist

Reform and mixed

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformism

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_power

Engagement

• http://gigaom.com/europe/online-crowdsourcing-can-now-help-build-new-laws-in-finland/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_(decision_making)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics

Technology

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEN4XNth61o

Audiobooks/podcasts

to look into properly at some point in the future..

• http://librivox.org/anarchism-and-other-essays-by-emma-goldman/