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
  • http://www.edinburgh.public-i.tv/

• What Do They Know? Edinburgh FOI
• Occupy Edinburgh

• http://edinburghactivecitizens.wordpress.com/
• http://edinburghanarchists.noflag.org.uk/

Local

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

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

• http://www.cosla.gov.uk/

National

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

• http://www.youtube.com/user/ScottishParl?

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/

Law

• http://smokecontrol.defra.gov.uk/appliances.php?country=s

Parties

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

Charities

• http://www.equality-network.org/
• http://www.scottishtrans.org/

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

• http://www.legislation.gov.uk/

• http://www.writetothem.com/
• https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/
• http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/
• http://www.theyworkforyou.com/
• http://www.fixmystreet.com/

• http://openlylocal.com/

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/bbc_parliament/

• The Electoral Commission: UK

• http://www.pfc.org.uk/
• http://www.activistslegalproject.org.uk/

• r/ukpolitics/

• http://www.electionleaflets.org/

• http://www.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/
• http://www.afed.org.uk/

• http://www.modernliberty.net/
• http://www.democracyclub.org.uk/
• http://www.practicalparticipation.co.uk/

Pirate Party UK

• http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page

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

Media

• BBC News Front page
  • BBC News Video stream

• BBC: Daily and Sunday Politics

• http://bbc.co.uk/democracylive

• The Independent
• The Guardian
• EurActiv.com
• euronews | europa
• euronews | world
• New York Times Wire
• Wikinews

• El Reg Biting the hand that feeds IT

• The Big Project News
• Chipwrapper Search UK newspapers

• BBC News: The Editors del.icio.us

• http://the-libertarian.co.uk/

EU

• Scottish MEPs
• EurActiv EU news & policy debates

• http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/ebs/schedule.cfm

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

USA

• http://memeorandum.com

• http://wwww.librenews.us/

World

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

• http://www.transparency.org/

• http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/trends/

Philosophy / policy

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

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.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/we-already-tried-libertarianism-it-was-called-feudalism

• 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

• http://metagovernment.org/wiki/Related_projects

• http://www.networked-politics.info/

Law

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

Geographical

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

Economics

• http://www.zcommunications.org/topics/parecon

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309882

Power arrangements

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

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://eng.anarchopedia.org/Main_Page
• http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism
  • http://www.reddit.com/r/anarchismsubreddits

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

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(economic_theory)
  • http://www.mutuo.co.uk/about/

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

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communalism_(Political_Philosophy)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_municipalism
  • http://www.social-ecology.org/1991/04/libertarian-municipalism-an-overview/
  • http://www.zcommunications.org/assessing-libertarian-municipalism-by-michael-albert

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

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

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

Democracy

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

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

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformism
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_procedure

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefigurative_politics
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_politics
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy
  • http://participedia.net/en
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_democracy - before the Commies screwed it up
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_democracy

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberative_democracy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_democracy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipatory_democracy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Democracy

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegative_democracy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_direct_democracy
• http://liquidfeedback.org/

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

Collaboration

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cooperative
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_and_employment_co-operative
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retailers%27_co-operative
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_cooperative
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_cooperative / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_farm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_cooperative

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_banking
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_union

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_cooperative
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_cooperative

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_federation
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-operative_wholesale_society

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivism

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commune

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

Activism

• http://www.revleft.com/vb/

• https://whyweprotest.net/community/

Technology

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

• https://github.com/vvk-ehk/evalimine

Audiobooks/podcasts

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

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