Editorial
Is the left now coming up for air? The left is in one of its classic dilemmas. On the one
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Author: Scottish Left Review
Money begets money: how the Tories helped the rich get richer during the COVID-19 crisis
Prem Sikka dissects the Westminster governments series of economic and financial initiatives On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organisation
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Fighting for fairness in COVID-19 crisis: workers and unions provide the sensible solution
Roz Foyer reports on what’s been happening in Scotland’s workplaces The STUC supports the Fair Work Convention’s vision that by
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Crisis within a crisis: the failure of private sector care
Stephen Smellie charts a way out of the crisis in both short- and medium-terms Thousands have died in care homes
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Domestic abuse and COVID-19
Megan Gordon reports that a bad situation is getting worse – so much more funding is needed Imagine that you
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Scottish education in the Covid pandemic: to be forewarned is to be forearmed
With so much still unknown, Bill Ramsay says the rush to return to school is ill-advised and dangerous When considering
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Universal Basic Income: simple solution to a complex conundrum?
William Craig surveys the arguments and evidence on a topical subject The enormous upheaval caused by the pandemic has forced
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Covid-19 and the campaign against climate change and a just transition
Gordon Morgan lays out a 22-point plan to bring about a decisive change Across the world, CO2 emissions are falling
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Is Coronavirus causing a shift in attitudes towards immigration?
Lubnaa Joomun reveals some seemingly positive changes but wonders whether they will be permanent Only four years ago, immigration was
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Crisis in the councils … mental health challenges … key workers still key? … freedom of information
Comment: Four Separate Issues Arising from COVID-19 Response Councils in Scotland have been at the forefront in dealing with COVID-19
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Combating misogyny and sexism on the left: a shift is needed and must come
Frances Curran recounts her personal and political experience of coming up against ‘male privilege’ Attitudes towards women’s oppression and sexism
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What should an ideal Scottish male leader look like?
Heather Farley and Saffron Roberts say there should be a non-gendered type of ideal leadership Abuse of power by leading
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Taking arms dealing seriously – what needs to happen
Jonathan Deans explains the how and why of an unregulated business that gets away with murder What do the movement
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How will the pandemic change the Scottish political landscape?
Ahead of the Holyrood 2021 elections, Colin Fox argues all that is solid just might melt into air With less
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Forget your roots at your political peril
Kenny MacAskill considers the case of Kansas to give a handle on those feeling left behind but not left It’s
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‘Jack Jones: The Unsung Hero’ – making a film about a union leader
Nigel Flanagan tells the tale of the subject of the film and the means by which is was made Sat
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Remembering Neil Davidson
By celebration and critique, Gregor Gall commemorates the contribution of Neil Davidson Socialists in Scotland lost one of their finest
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Film Review
Midnight Traveller (2020) – Director: Hassan Fazili, Editor: Emelie Mahdahvian Reviewed by Jackie Bergson Increasingly soaring refugee numbers within recent
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Book Review
Murray Armstrong The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820, Pluto Press, 2020, 9780745341330, pp228 Reviewed by Sean
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Book Review
Kenny MacAskill Radical Scotland: Uncovering Scotland’s Radical History – from the French Revolutionary era to the 1820 Rising, Biteback, 2020,
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
Twelve weeks into lockdown, and our through-the-looking-glass ‘new normal’ becomes ever more bizarre. While everyone’s lives seem identical from one
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Coronavirus crisis: underfunding, restructuring, privatisation and fragmentation at the heart of the crisis in Holyrood and Westminster
Allyson Pollock and Louisa Harding-Edgar say there is also an opportunity to end the neo-liberalism that got us to this
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COVID 19: government failures counter-balanced by solutions from unions and NGOs
Andrew Watterson says unions must be part of the post-crisis economic and social reconstruction Pandemics cannot be avoided but COVID-19
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