Editorial: Eyes on the planetary prize
Though our cover celebrates reaching issue 125, this should not detract from the major global issue continuing to be the climate emergency
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Climate, jobs and justice
Matthew Crighton reviews some core messages from a climate conference and their relevance to debates in post-election Scotland and at
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Their Just Transition and our Just Transition
Dave Moxham says it’s not so much the devil is in the detail but the visions are quite different. Up
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How green are our valleys and how green will they become?
Maggie Chapman gives a frank and honest view on the Scottish Government and Scottish Greens deal. Some on the left
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Overheated and over here: our planet on fire
John Wood reviews two books about the environmental emergency. As the climate crisis comes into sharper relief by the day,
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More Chaplin than Churchill? We will be laughing at Boris Johnson as the ‘Great Dictator’?
Peter Lomas argues prime ministers hold dangerous amounts of undemocratic and unilateral powers. Questioned, at the G7 July summit, about
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Uniting for change in UNISON?
Stephen Smellie gives personal reflections on UNISON’s newly elected national leadership. Glaswegian Christina McAnea was elected as general secretary of
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Working out a workable plan for an independent Scottish economy
Raphael De Santos dissects GERS, arguing for managed expectations as the first steps on a longer path. Once we get
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1971-1972: Bohemians, Beatles, Bankies and a bouquet
Chris McGachy recalls a time when music was a political force to be reckoned within workers’ struggles. Fifty years ago
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Rebuilding the Scottish economy through worker ownership
John Bratton and David Erdal argue for one specific method for ‘building back better’. The global Covid-19 pandemic, which has
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Consummate consumers of the world unite!
Mick Rice argues workers have potential power in another arena under global corporate capitalism. It has always galled me that
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Pleasing political poetry
Ravenscraig by Robert Graham Before the steel mill shut the kids had toys and bikes, their brothers bought old banger
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Film Review
Robin Bissell, director, The Best of Enemies (2019) Reviewed by Jackie Bergson Durham, North Carolina, 1971. A school which educates
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Book Review
Hall, E. (ed.) New Light on Tony Harrison, Oxford University Press/British Academy, 2019, pp246, £45 (hb), 978-0197266519, and Hall,
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Book Review
Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen, Finntopia: What we can learn from the world’s happiest country, Agenda Publishing, £18.99, 9781788212151 Reviewed
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
So, it would appear that Boris Johnson may have finally got his moment to be compared to Churchill. As the
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