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Editorial – Bastards of Brexit and the ‘national interest’

Happy New Year to all our subscribers, readers and supporters. And, with the pleasantries now done, let’s get back to[…]

Just Transitioning – marrying environment protection and social justice

Stephen Smellie lays out what is meant by Just Transition and what role unions have to play. The concept of[…]

Greening economics and politics with social justice

Francis Stuart argues unions are central to creating the Just Transition At STUC’s most recent annual congress, a number of[…]

Partnership for progress

Matthew Crighton outlines the Just Transition Partnership between the STUC and Friends of the Earth Setting up a Just Transition[…]

Rebelling against extinction

With no jobs or life on a dead planet, Douglas Rogers explains what Extinction Rebellion is about The science is[…]

Why and how the SNP must stop being ‘the party of oil’

Simon Barrow argues the SNP must more fully commit to the Just Transition Climate change is the all-embracing challenge of[…]

The global dimension of the Just Transition

Bill Bonnar argues Africa, as the poorest continent, needs special attention and resources There is no doubt that the issue[…]

Opportunities for Scotland’s climate related legislation

Gordon Morgan says the Scottish Government has several opportunities to help make the transition. The Scottish Government boasts that it[…]

Capitalism is the climate crisis

Dave Sherry says the systemic roots of the crisis lie in the economic system we live under To a great[…]

Universal Credit – universal cruelty for the poor and vulnerable

Chris Stephens says the real scandal of this Tory government is its welfare policy not Brexit It’s all too easy[…]

Death in Police Custody: the case of Sheku Bayoh

Aamer Anwar explains why his death must be the subject of a public inquiry Sheku Ahmed Tejan Bayoh was a[…]

On the frontline: fighting the fascists

Talat Ahmed calls upon the left to mobilise on 2 February in a show of strength It is five years[…]

‘Value Education, Value Teachers’ campaign marches on

Larry Flanagan explains the magnificent mobilisation of teachers so far The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) launched its Value Education,[…]

Tories in tatters results in rise of right?

Sean Duffy argues that the beneficiaries of May’s meltdown are like to be Rees Mogg and his cohorts The Conservative[…]

Scottish Labour – the return of its radical roots

Mike Cowley says under Richard Leonard Scottish Labour is back on its way to influence In November 2017, Scottish Labour[…]

Labour’s Scottish problem

Róisín McLaren argues Scottish Labour’s star cannot rise until it changes course on independence A YouGov opinion poll published on[…]

Scotland needs a community organising movement

Drawing on her Leith experience, Linda Somerville argues there are new and effective ways of organising The good citizens of[…]

Another Edinburgh revolt: staff and students elect a radical rector

Angi Lamb recounts her experience of managing Ann Henderson’s successful rectorial campaign My participation began with an email to Ann[…]

Betrayal of the Sandinista revolution

Joseph McAleer recounts that power pacts have killed the dream of freedom in Nicaragua Eight months after students first took[…]

Catalonia and the continuing Spanish crisis

George Kerevan argues what the international left does will influence the cause of Catalonian independence In 2018, the political crisis[…]

Age, ageing and ageism: how ageist is Scotland?

Bill Johnston argues the left needs to start taking ageism seriously and act accordingly Part one (Scottish Left Review issue[…]

Scottish theatrical revolution

Mark Brown argues Modernism is the motor of Scotland’s belated and celebrated theatrical renaissance If 1968 was a year of[…]

Film Review

Outlaw King (2018), director: David Mackenzie Reviewed by Jackie Bergson Hailing from Scotland, David Mackenzie contextualises his film about Robert[…]

Book Review

Tom Devine, The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900, Allen Lane, 2018, 9780241304105 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan The[…]

Book Review

Greg Albo, Leo Panitch and Alan Zuege (eds.) Class, Party, Revolution: A Socialist Register Reader, Haymarket Books, 1608469190, £20.99 Reviewed[…]

Vladimir McTavish’s  A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS 

Happy New Year. The start of January is always a relief to me, as it signals that the sheer living[…]