Tommy Sheridan has vowed the independence movement is “not going away”, ahead of sharing a platform with Alex Salmond at a Glasgow indy rally tomorrow.The Hope Over Fear event in George Square - dubbed ‘Freedom Square’ by nationalists - starts at 12pm on Saturday and will feature live music and speakers, including Salmond, Sheridan, and ex-SNP MPs Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh and Angus MacNeil.Titled ‘Ten years on… the dream will never die’, the rally comes ahead of the ten-year anniversary of the 2014 independence referendum on Wednesday.Former socialist MSP Sheridan, who has been running pro-independence Hope Over Fear rallies for more than a decade, insisted passion was still high for the cause.At the height of indy fever during and in the immediate years after the referendum campaign, the marches reliably Speaking alongside Salmond in a joint interview with the Record, he said: “Alex did a brilliant job in leading from the front and putting the arguments for independence in a very urgent way.“What we’ll be doing on Saturday is we’ll be gathering in George Square and we will be announcing loud and clear to everyone who wishes to listen that we’re not going away.“That the arguments of an independent Scotland and building a better, fairer Scotland that can actually choose the government that it wants are stronger today than they were ten years ago.“The independence cause is bigger than any one individual, any one political party, it’s a cause that will keep going.“I think it was Alex’s phrase, when he made his resignation speech, where he said ‘the dream will never die’ and he’s absolutely right.”On Saturday evening, at Glasgow’s IMAX theatre, Salmond will host a panel event reflecting on the referendum.Speakers will include
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