Out Now: Pride and Struggle

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Out Now: Pride and Struggle

Issue 135, Pride and Struggle, is now available to download and to read online. The Scottish Left Review depends on our

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Salvador Allende’s inaugural speech as the President of Chile pulsed with pride, not in his own success, but in the achievement of the parties and movements of the Chilean Left. Young and old, women and men, urban and rural had acted in concert to bring socialism to power.

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Black Pupils in White Eyes

Any hope of providing an equitable future for young people of colour in Scotland depends on understanding the education system’s capitalist genesis and racist design, writes Rohit Rao.

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Scottish Colleges in Crisis

The neglect of our colleges sends a clear message to working class students. That is why they are joining the fight for the future of further education, writes Sher Khalid-Ali.

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“Illegal” First, Children Second

The UK Government’s ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ will make a wretched situation for asylum-seeking children far worse, writes Francesca Sella.

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The Rebuilding Can Begin

Cradle Community, Brick by Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons (Hajar Press, 2023 (2nd edition)). Reviewed by Beth Ansell.

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Tensions in the Scot Squad

Sorley Complain finds something sinister behind the cheery faces of BBC Scotland’s policing comedy.

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Not Only Ferries Run Aground

Scotland’s inability to manage infrastructure requires us to move beyond blame games and towards structural solutions, write Peter McColl and Gilbert Ramsay.

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When Pride Fails Us

A Fossil Free Pride organiser explores the implications of LGBTQ+ Prides in Scotland being sponsored by companies deeply implicated in the climate crisis.

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Everyday Acts of Love

Queer Footprints – A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History (Pluto Press, 2023) is a combination of 200 interviews, secondary research, oral herstory* and many stories derived through activism. Its author Dan Glass shares what he realised through its creation.

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Respectable Revolutionaries

Jen Bell considers the central lesson of Weimer Germany’s queer scene: we have nothing to gain from the old order, so let us lead you into the new world.

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A Government We Called Our Own

Fifty years on from the coup in Chile, Oscar Mendoza reflects on the lasting legacy of Allende’s government.

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From Chile to the Ends of the Earth

The culture of the Chilean movement and government that was cut down in 1973 still lives in Scotland and across the world, writes Chris Dolan.

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Prayer to a Worker

This song earned Victor Jara the first prize at the 1969 festival of the New Chilean Song movement. This arrangement is the one used by the Communist Choir in Edinburgh. Appears in English and Chilean.