Editorial
On the road to hellfire, damnation and floods: the great COP-out With BoJo’s leadership of the Tories and the Tories
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Of black clouds and silver linings?
Stephen Smellie argues COP26 delivered on the low expectations of it but progress was made in building a bigger and
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COP to flop: the great Glaswegian greenwash
Mary Church argues it’s hard to view COP26 as anything other than a resounding failure but the summit’s legacy is
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COP26 to CON26 – how we need to be at DEFCON level 1 to save our people and planet
Dave Sherry reviews a recent contribution to union campaign to stop climate change Climate Jobs: Building a workforce for the
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Zero emission strategies in maritime transport
Alf Baird surveys the various energy options for greening sea transport, whether for passenger or goods As with all transport
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Being and becoming modern giants – what it is to be human and in harmony with nature
Patrick Phillips looks at a new way of transcending our system of endless economic exchange ‘There appears to be a
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Political poems for a imagining a better world
We are pleased to published further poems by David McKinstry and David Bleiman. Cult of Career By David McKinstry Have
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15 years of covering the covers for Scottish Left Review
Nadia Lucchesi is an artist, illustrator and printmaker and has delivered bright and bold covers for Scottish Left Review. After
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Parting with Parliament to spend more time on politics
Scottish Left Review interviews Neil Findlay about a new project to bring capacity building skills to progressive community campaigners Neil
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Alba, action stations and the forthcoming local elections
Kenny MacAskill issues a rallying cry for those dispirited and disillusioned with the submissive and subservient SNP The local elections
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Not independence but self-government!
Colin Kirkwood argues against the replicating of centralised systems of government under independence In the 1960s, the Brazilian educator, Paulo
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‘They’ll never understand why I’m here’ – James Connolly, the left and the Irish War of Independence
Peter McColl looks back on the creation of the right’s dominance in the Irish republic in order to explain why
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An Ann Cleves crime in Shetland worthy of a Jimmy Perez investigation: privatisating Shetland College
Andrew Anderson looks at the lessons which must be learned from the case of Shetland for the rest of Scotland
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No home but the struggle – from red to green
Dougie Harrison recalls why he joined the Communist Party in 1968 and and resigned from it in 1990 Few reading
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Documentary Review
Steve Sprung, writer/director, The Plan That Came From The Bottom Up, 2018 Reviewed by Jackie Bergson The need for the
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Review of Prose Anthology
Jim Aitken (ed.) Ghosts of the Early Morning Shift: An anthology of Radical Prose from Contemporary Scotland, Culture Matters, 2021,
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Book Review
Sally Rooney Beautiful World, Where Are You? Faber & Faber, 2021 Reviewed by John Wood Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are
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Short Story Review
Colin Burnett A Working Class State of Mind, Pierpoint Press, £9.84, 9781914090158 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan The title of the
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Book Review
Jim Sillars A Difference of Opinion: My political journey, Birlinn, 2021, 97817802706830, £14.99, pp303 Reviewed by Will Podmore Jim Sillars
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Book Review
Jane Hardy Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: Work and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Britain, Pluto, 2021, 9780745341040, pp272, £19.99 Reviewed
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A New Scotland: Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society
The book will be available this April – further details in the next issue of Scottish Left Review. Contents Foreword
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Vladimir McTavish – A Kick Up The Tabloids
Few have made the transition from COP to flop with such outstanding speed as Boris Johnson. He had, in the
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