About

Still Yours For Scotland (decolonise.scot) is an international platform dedicated to decolonisation and, in particular, to Scotland’s liberation as a colonised nation. Our approach is rooted in the legacy of the Non-Aligned Movement and the enduring Bandung Spirit.

We publish work that recognises Scotland’s status under English colonial domination while situating its struggle within the wider global history of anti-colonial resistance; from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to Ireland and Indigenous nations. Our scope extends beyond Scotland itself, engaging colonial, neocolonial, and decolonial realities wherever they arise. Contributions need not focus directly on Scotland, but they must be consistent with the platform’s foundational recognition of its colonial condition.

Our mission is to connect Scotland’s cause to global and United Nations decolonisation discourse through rigorous legal analysis, historical research, political theory, culture, and international perspectives. Our tone is intellectual, principled, and uncompromisingly decolonial.

We proceed from the view that Scotland’s constitutional condition cannot be reduced to domestic political debate. It engages questions of sovereignty, territorial authority, annexation, cultural erasure, economic extraction, and the right of peoples to self-determination under international law. Scotland’s experience is examined not as an anomaly, but as part of the wider architecture of colonial governance that has shaped the modern world.

SYFS (decolonise.scot) places Scotland in solidarity with former colonies, remaining colonised territories, and nations confronting neocolonial domination. We recognise that colonial power persists in legal, financial, cultural, and epistemic forms long after formal empire or colonisation declares itself complete.

We welcome contributions, carefully selected and approved by the Editor, from scholars, activists, artists, and thinkers in Scotland and across the world who share our commitment to decolonial inquiry and liberation. Comparative and Global South perspectives are particularly valued. All submissions are carefully selected and approved by the Editor in accordance with the guidelines outlined on our Contribute page.

This platform is not a party political instrument. It is an intellectual and documentary space. Its purpose is to clarify, archive, and advance decolonial arguments in disciplined and internationally intelligible terms.

Scotland’s future is independence through decolonisation and national restoration.

We exist to help build the intellectual, constitutional, cultural, and global foundations of that freedom; not for Scotland alone, but in the conviction that every act of decolonisation contributes to the dignity of peoples, the integrity of international law, and the advancement of humanity.

Our work is grounded in the belief that liberation in one nation strengthens the broader struggle against domination in all its forms. In clarifying Scotland’s constitutional condition, we seek to serve not only Scotland, but the wider international community, the cause of justice, and the progress of a world still shaped by colonial power.

Team

Christophe  Dorigné ‑ Thomson

Dr Christophe Dorigné-Thomson, MiM, is a Scottish and French researcher specialising in foreign policy and strategic issues. His book, Indonesia’s Engagement with Africa (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2023), is the first comprehensive study of Indonesia-Africa relations and was selected by a distinguished international editorial committee.

Politically active, he has collaborated with leading institutions globally and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, and ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, among others.

Dr Dorigné-Thomson has been regularly featured in Indonesian media and interviewed by international outlets such as Voice of America (VOA), Radio France Internationale (RFI), Africa Business, South China Morning Post, and Melbourne University’s Talking Indonesia podcast. He has also been involved in several strategic initiatives and projects globally and especially in the Global South where he has lived for most of his adult life.

He holds a PhD in Politics from Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia’s leading university, and a Master in Management (finance major) from ESSEC Business School. He is a member of Liberation Scotland’s Secretariat.

Sara Salyers

Sara Salyers is a TV researcher and reporter turned activist.

She launched the Salvo movement, branding Scotland a “colonial outpost” of England. Sara was the driving force behind the dramatic rise in support for Liberation.Scot, quickly achieving the thousands of signatories for the Edinburgh Proclamation required to take Scotland’s case to the UN.

She’s pushing for a UN‑backed decolonisation drive, reviving the historic Claim of Right, and demanding a fresh independence referendum to settle the nation’s fate.

Alan McMahon

Alan McMahon, a journalist for The National, analyses Scottish‑independence debates through an economic lens.

Alan stresses the need to assess practical, market‑level consequences alongside political rhetoric.