Neil Davidson (1957-2020) lectured in Sociology at the University of Glasgow and is the author of six books, including the Deutscher-Prize-winning Discovering the Scottish Revolution (London: Pluto Press, 2003) and, most recently, Nation-States: Consciousness and Competition (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016). He wrote some of the most widely-read analyses of the previous referendum and Scottish independence for print and on-line journals including Bella Caledonia, Jacobin, New Left Review, Radical Philosophy and Salvage.

James Foley has recently completed his PhD on the Scottish economy since 1971 at the University of Edinburgh. He is the co-author of an article on contemporary referendums in the forthcoming issue of The Socialist Register and (with Pete Ramand) of Yes: The Radical Case for Scottish Independence (London: Pluto Press, 2014).