Cat Boyd

Cat Boyd is a Scottish trade union activist who was a co-founder of the Radical Independence Campaign and the Scottish Left Project. She was a prominent figure during the Scottish independence referendum, 2014.

She is one of the people credited with bringing together RISE – Scotland's Left Alliance, a left-wing electoral alliance created ahead of the 2016 Scottish Parliament general election. She stood, unsuccessfully, as a RISE candidate for the 2016 Scottish Parliament election on the Glasgow regional list. RISE did not gain any seats in the 2016 election.

Boyd co-authored a book that was published in 2014 and writes a weekly column for the The National newspaper.

Boyd studied economics and Spanish at the University of Strathclyde. Her mother, Isabelle Boyd, is a former headteacher and accepted a CBE in 2009.

It was during the campaign ahead of the Scottish independence referendum that Boyd emerged as a prominent activist. In November 2012 she co-founded the Radical Independence Campaign, which supported a left-wing vision of an independent Scotland. Boyd also sat on the editorial board of the Scottish Left Review.

While the outcome of the referendum was "No" to independence, analysis of voting patterns suggested that this new coalition in Scottish politics had led to a significant change in political opinion in many of Scotland's more deprived communities. In the months that followed, a new coalition was forming, called the Scottish Left Project. Boyd described the project not as a party but a way to link up with other socialists, community activists, trade unions, social justice campaigners and activists.

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