We are Growing and Need Your Help

We have plans for so much more

Our first in-person event of the year was a runaway success - standing room in Glasgow for David Broder's new book 'Mussolini's Grandchildren' - how the Italian far right are remoulding politics in Europe.

Thanks to all those who came and made the day such a success. We want to host so much more radical discussion, and think it’s invaluable to rebuilding a fighting socialist movement.

Until now, we have never made a public appeal for funds. We are launching a fundraising campaign now because we believe this is a crucial time. We want to upgrade Conter for the challenges of this coming period, so we can make a real impact on events and strengthen the Scottish socialist movement. Naturally we have no business, state or grant funding – the political nature of what we do precludes it. We can only achieve our aims with your support.

If we reach:

£1000 per month we will organise an annual John Maclean lecture and day school, bringing together experience and perspectives from socialist activists across Scotland and from struggles abroad. We want to build the event into a yearly restatement of Scotland’s socialist traditions, and a recommitment to apply those traditions to contemporary Scotland.

£2000 per month we will hire a full-time editor to increase our range of coverage, articles, podcasts and events. We achieve a lot by voluntary effort – but we could multiply that with an editor who can dedicate their time to creating a comprehensive coverage of Scottish affairs.

£3000 a month we will create a professionally produced, long-form podcast series investigating the story of the 2014 independence referendum and movement and aftermath. We want to speak to the big players as well as the little-known activists who cohered one of the largest working class mobilisations in Scotland for decades. This will be the untold story of the movement, bringing Conter’s anti-establishment analysis to a broad public and competing with establishment accounts on the 10 year anniversary.

We will provide a range of ways you can contribute financially, but what will most help us expand is a regular subscription via Patreon. This will give us the stability for longer-term planning and investment in far-reaching projects. It will also give you access to the Conter community, with exclusive events, forums and content.

Finally, if you want info about future free events, please sign up to this newsletter using the link. And if you know others who might be interested - why not send it on to them?