Editorial When politics trumped economics
As we begin 2021, 2020 should be remembered as the year in which politics trumped economics twice – on Brexit
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UCS work in 50th anniversary
The founder of Scottish Left Review, Jimmy Reid, played a leading role in the one of the most successful campaigns
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Feedback – Held to account?
The editorial of Scottish Left Review (120, Nov-Dec 2020) ended with the statement: ‘As we go to print, Jeremy Corbyn
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The calamity of COVID that was avoidable
Lilian Macer looks back on a year of failings and flaws in the battle against COVID-19. Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is
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Towards a set of principles for a National Care Service
Nick Kempe outlines the key principles and values that must underpin the reform of care in Scotland. The Scottish Government’s
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Challenging neo-liberal education in a post-Covid world
Brian Boyd and Henry Maitles lay out a wide-ranging critique of what is right and wrong in education. The Covid
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After the acclaim, the rightful pay claim for our key workers
Roz Foyer ask whether the Scottish Government will pass or fail the test of paying up. Since the first lockdown,
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Progressive consensus versus neo-liberal stagnation
Mike Danson asks what sort of economic renewal and recovery do we want in Scotland. As countries and governments struggle
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Misreporting Labour anti-semitism: Zionists and the right-wing now rule the roost
Sandy Hobbs finds the EHRC report to be deeply flawed, amounting to a politically inspired hatchet job. In October 2020,
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Labour at the crossroads – which way will it turn?
Tommy Kane analyses changes inside Labour and calls for the left to stay, fight and win. When Keir Starmer won
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The Say No Party – the battle is just beginning to stop the Stalinism of Sturgeon
Kenny MacAskill reviews how the SNP will act after its leadership received a recent bloody lip. Where now for the
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The struggle for Scotland: from marching to movement for the moment at hand
Keir McKechnie reports on how AUOB is changing not just to meet the times but to shape them too. Support
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Self-determination for Scotland: do we have Lenin’s courage?
Konrad Rekas ask those who want to be more than counted to stand up now. What do we need political
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Resistance that beats – to a beat – can be beautiful
Many readers of Scottish Left Review will likely know the Rock Against Racism (RAR) movement intimately— that political and cultural
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Britain after Brexit: footloose and fancy free for capricious capitalism
Vince Mills assesses the Brexit deal and warns of imminent dangers. After what seemed like interminable debate and disagreement, on
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Trump defeated/Biden elected but progressives will still have to fight
Dan La Botz says Biden’s victory is a positive development but Trumpism remains a force and Biden is no progressive.
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Margaret Skinnider – Scotland’s almost unknown revolutionary
Maggie Chetty recalls the life of Skinnider and the work to keep her memory alive. From the great political ferment
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(In)Equality and (Un)Diversity at the University of St Andrews
Chris Sutherland unravels the class contours of privilege and power pervading a tiny town in Fife. The 2018 Times &
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From her kitchen and computer, Annie Morgan thinks through the implications of mining and money for food and fairness As
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Not cooking with (British) Gas
Derek McPherson tells a tale of corporate greed against the hoi polloi. British Gas (BG) is bound to comply with
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Yes, Yes, Yes: UCS – Unity Creates Strength
On the occasion of the beginning of the 50th anniversary in 2021 of the UCS work-in, we reprint a book
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Film Review
Detroit (2017), director, Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter, Mark Boal Reviewed by Jackie Bergson. The first female to win an Oscar
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Book Review
Ben Jackson, The Case for Scottish Independence: A History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland, Cambridge University Press, pp179,
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Book Review
Victor Serge, Notebooks: 1936-1947, New York Review Books, 2019, £14, pp651, 9781681372709 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan. No one writing from
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Kick UP THE TABLOIDS
VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS Despite starting the year under lockdown, and despite the disaster that is
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