Over 6,750 migrant worker deaths – it’s no beautiful game when played like this
John Dennis explains the STUC’s call for action in Scotland against the needless deaths of migrant workers building the World Cup
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Climate Camp Scotland and the struggle for climate justice
Benji Brown reports on the recent Aberdeen Climate Camp and where the campaign goes from here After a summer filled with
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Film Review
Ben Lawrence, director, Ithaka (2022) Reviewed by Jackie Bergson At its simplest, Ithaka tells the story of a father, John Shipton,
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Book Review
L. Douds, J. Harris and P. Whitewood (eds.) The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation 1917-41, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 Brendan
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Book Review
Ben Tarnoff Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future, Verso, 2022, pp272, £8.99 Reviewed by John Wood A
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Book Review
Neil Davidson, James Foley, and Ben Wray Scotland After Britain: The Two Souls of Scottish Independence, Verso, 2022, £12.99 pb Reviewed by Gordon
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Book Review
Jeff Sparrow Crimes against Nature – Capitalism and Global Heating, Scribe, 2021, pp240, £16.99 Reviewed by Charlotte Ahmed Jeff Sparrow is
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Editor’s Note
Matthew Crighton reviewed the Jimmy Reid Foundation’s edited collection called A New Scotland: Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society in
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
By the time this column goes to press, the UK will have a new Prime Minister. Whoever that person may be,
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Whither the Scottish left?
George Kerevan surveys the scene, suggesting the SNP’s dominance results from a lack of choices. How often have you heard someone
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Down but not out and still around to keep on fighting
Joe Cullinane explains why Labour lost but is proud of its achievements in North Ayrshire. For five and half a years,
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National utopias and local myopias – local government is the poor relation of Holyrood!
Gordon Munro looks back on missed opportunities to advance local democracy and delivery. The left in Scotland has been a useful
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It’s no game: Playing the cost-of-living fightback both home and away
Having taken the fightback to London, Roz Foyer says we’ve also building it in our workplaces and communities. We’re now experiencing
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To demand better, we must ourselves be better
Kate Ramsden casts her eye over the health of the union movement as it gears up for an almighty battle. I
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#Metoo must also mean men speaking up and fighting back against sexual harassment of women
Here we reprint the speech of Rab Noakes from the Musicians’ Union moving Motion 64 at the 2022 STUC congress in
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Scottish musician hits a high note for equality at union awards
Scots folk singer and union activist, Iona Fyfe, wins the STUC Equality Award. One of Scotland’s leading folk singers has been
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For days and days, a four-day week has been our favoured fix for work-life balance
Ruby Gibson explains the evidence-based case for the shorter working week in the Scottish civil service. Working time can and should
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Dear Boris and Nicola: This really is the best way to ‘Build Back Better’
Alex Rowley shows how the Scottish Parliament can together tackle climate change and fuel poverty. I have introduced a consultation for
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Power to the people right now
Stuart Fairweather recounts the new initiatives to connect different types of poverty into one campaign. Recent Scottish Left Review editorials have
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The moral corruption of nuclear blackmail
Peter Lomas surveys the contours of an increasingly dangerous and unstable Europe. Someone once said that nuclear weapons make the world
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Working-class communist leader elected rector of an ancient Scots university
Then University of Glasgow student, Dougie Harrison, recall’s Reid’s election fifty-one years ago. In summer 1971, with every active communist in
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A Scottish independent economy in ‘the new normal’
Raphael De Santos looks at the implications of high inflation, rising interest rates and a contracting economy for Scotland after independence.
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If people make Glasgow, here’s kind greetings from Kenmure Street
We reprint the speech Tabassum Niamat gave to open the first Festival of Resistance. Good afternoon, everyone. I hope you are
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The Kenmure Street site of resistance against racism
Fatima Uygun and Tabassum Niamat reflect on how a community stood up to be counted. Kenmure Street in Pollokshields on Glasgow’s
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Monarchist v Republicans: Off with their heads as we keep ours
Graham Smith takes comfort from the continuing long-term decline of the monarchy in Britain. Observers from overseas might be forgiven for
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Carillion’s collapse and the accountancy oligopoly
John Barker exposes those that are effectively judge and jurors in their own malfeasance. Earlier this year there were reports of
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Pleasing political poems aplenty
Poems from Mathew Knights and Dr David McKinstry. Based in Arbroath, Matthew Knights is a writer and creative writing tutor (www.matthewknights.co.uk)
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Film Review
Jonas Poher Rasmussen, director, Flee (2021) Reviewed by Jackie Bergson True stories which are told in first person throughout a feature
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Book Review
Javier Blas and Jack Farchy, The World For Sale: Money, Power And The Traders Who Barter The Earth’s Resources, Random House,
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Book Review
Mike Phipps, Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow, OR Books, 2022, 9781682193693, £13, pp230 Reviewed by Dexter Govan. When the storm cleared
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Arnold Weinstein. The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing, Princeton University Press, £14, 9780691177304, pp352 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan. The Lives
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Patrick O’Hare Rubbish Belongs to the Poor: Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons, Pluto Press, 2022, 9780745341408, pp240, £19.99 Reviewed by
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Book Review
Gregor Gall (ed.) A New Scotland: Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society, Pluto, £14.99, 9780745345062, pp352 Reviewed by Matthew Crighton.
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Vladimir McTavish – A Kick Up The Tabloids
When issued with a fixed penalty by the Metropolitan Police for breaking Covid rules, Boris Johnson said he was not going
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Editorial: UK to Ukraine and back again – conflict and class
For the left, the ‘test of war’ is said to be the ultimate test of their politics. This phraseology follows the
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Can we set sail the good ship Scotland on a new course for social justice?
As the Calmac crisis continues to push the SNP Scottish Government further towards the rocks, Gregor Gall introduces a major new
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A New Scotland: Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society
Contents Foreword Rozanne Foyer 1 Introduction Gregor Gall 2 The structural development of poverty and inequality Carlo Morelli and Gerry Mooney
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Towards gender justice in Scotland
Kirsty Alexander and Jenny Morrison argue for enhancing participation, reimagining economics and ending gender-based violence. Three inter-connected aspects of distributive gender
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Community campaigns – the power to change from the bottom up
Willie Sullivan, Lynn Henderson, Linda Somerville and Ruth Lightbody show not all progressive political change comes in the form of traditional
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