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Issue 116 Editorial

24th March 202024th March 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read

Working out where we go from here The outcome of the general election last year means Scotland enters yet another critical

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Editorial

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 9 min read

Regroup and resist – but how? Well, the polls were stunningly accurate so we well and truly had our ‘Friday the

Battered, bloodied and bruised: down but not out

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read

Richard Leonard says when the people speak, political parties must listen The election result was grave for Labour. Though we tried

Where and what now for the Scottish left?

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read

Kenny MacAskill offers suggestions on how to build a united anti-Tory, democratic alliance The elections over and the debacle has come

Independence, yes, but for whom and from what?

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read

Grahame Smith says resolving constitutional matters can unlock progress on social and economic issues After such a momentous election result, almost

Towards a constitutional crisis: Scotland and Britain after the general election

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read

Michael Keating says choppy waters lie ahead for both defending and defeating the Union Once again, Scotland and England have diverged

Against the lie machines – Labour and anti-semitism

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 5 min read

Mike Cowley reviews ‘Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief’ (Pluto, September 2019) In conducting their research with

Responses to #GE2019

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 33 min read

We asked a further range of left activists and commentators to provide their assessments of what happened and what we should

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COP25 ignores demands for climate justice

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 6 min read

Mary Church argues COP26 in Glasgow in 2020 must be a rallying point for people and planet The outcomes of the

Why our peace movement must be intersectional

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 9 min read

The word, pacifism, was coined in Scotland in the early twentieth century. Tim Gee asks if is it time to broaden

Microphones, megaphones and class

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read

Albert Brenchat Aguilar recounts the unseen and forgotten workers that make conference happen and their fightback I dish nibbles and pour

Surveying the unspoken concepts underpinning higher education

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 8 min read

Reflecting on his experience of applying to university, Patrick Phillips gives a critical appraisal Last summer I applied to ‘attend’ university.

Feedback to the Editor

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 0 min read

General election 2019 analysis We would welcome any responses to the analysis contained in this issue – what’s right, what’s wrong,

‘The Only Game in Town’ part 2 – the response as cover-up

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read

Campbell Martin gives an update on his expose on the PPP scandal in North Ayrshire When ‘new’ Labour swept to power

Documentary Review

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 3 min read

The Big Meeting (2019), director: Daniel Draper, editor: Christie Allanson Reviewed by Jackie Bergson The Big Meeting is a documentary by

Book Review

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 2 min read

Gerry Hassan and Simon Barrow (eds.) Scotland the Brave? Twenty Years of Change and the Future of the Nation, 2019, Luath

Book Review

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read

Classic recounted: Edwin Muir’s Scottish Journey, Mainstream Publishing, new edition, 1996 Commented on by Rory Green Maggie Chapman reviewed James McEnaney’s

Book Review

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read

Slavoj Žižek Sex and the Failed Absolute, Bloomsbury, 2019, £20.00 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan Žižek’s first English-language book, The Sublime Object

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Book Review

17th January 202019th June 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read

Gardner Thompson, Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel, Saqi Books, £20.00, 9780863563614 Reviewed by Sandy Hobbs Sixty

The Fight for a Human Future at the Frontier of Power

Book Review

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Profile Books, 2019, £10.99 Reviewed by Colin Fox Whilst reading this international bestseller by