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13th July 202213th July 20221 month ago Scottish Left Review 10 min read 385 Views

Asking an awkward question and needing an honest answer: What’s left of the left? The May 2022 local elections were

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Editorial: UK to Ukraine and back again – conflict and class

9th May 202212th May 20223 months ago Scottish Left Review 14 min read 569 Views

For the left, the ‘test of war’ is said to be the ultimate test of their politics. This phraseology follows

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Editorial

14th March 202214th March 20225 months ago Scottish Left Review 9 min read 805 Views

The hope of humanity? There is a relatively well-known saying on the left that ‘the cause of labour is the

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Editorial

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 7 min read 790 Views

On the road to hellfire, damnation and floods: the great COP-out With BoJo’s leadership of the Tories and the Tories

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No home but the struggle – from red to green

10th January 202213th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 7 min read 443 Views

Dougie Harrison recalls why he joined the Communist Party in 1968 and and resigned from it in 1990 Few reading

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Vladimir McTavish – A Kick Up The Tabloids

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 266 Views

Few have made the transition from COP to flop with such outstanding speed as Boris Johnson. He had, in the

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Editorial

15th November 202115th November 20219 months ago Scottish Left Review 3 min read 811 Views

COP26 ≠ much cop On the face of it, there may not seem to be a much of a theme

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Care + COVID = crisis continues

15th November 202115th November 20219 months ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 1710 Views

Wilma Brown reports on her experience of an overstretched and under-resourced NHS in Scotland We know staff in the NHS

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Editorial: Eyes on the planetary prize

8th September 202110th September 202111 months ago Scottish Left Review 8 min read 1253 Views

Though our cover celebrates reaching issue 125, this should not detract from the major global issue continuing to be the climate emergency

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Editorial

15th July 202115th July 20211 year ago Scottish Left Review 10 min read 1356 Views

Non-death of neo-liberalism and ‘new’ Labour returns This is an editorial of two parts. The first parts deals with the

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Editorial: Old wine in old bottles?

25th May 202125th May 20211 year ago Scottish Left Review 10 min read 2462 Views

Though Charles Dickens did not say ‘It was not the best of times. It was not quite the worst of

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With ‘fire-and-re-hire’ raging, will BoJos’ Brexiteers get their way in trampling over workers’ rights?

25th May 202125th May 20211 year ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 402 Views

Mick Rice considers a new way to skin this Tory tiger on work and employment. With Tory Brexiteers dreaming of

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Editorial:The fight for a Scotland we want.

8th March 20218th March 20211 year ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 1359 Views

This issue is our traditional STUC congress themed issue. In it, and in addition to hearing from the STUC itself,

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For investment and education-led recovery and restitution

8th March 20218th March 20211 year ago Scottish Left Review 3 min read 923 Views

Larry Flanagan does not pull his punches in laying out what the EIS demands of the Scottish Government. Scottish education,

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A Poem

8th March 20218th March 20211 year ago Scottish Left Review 0 min read 511 Views

‘Visionaries’ by David McKinstry, Glasgow As winter turned to spring And Churchill’s bombast stilled, The nation turned to quiet Clem

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Editorial When politics trumped economics

12th January 202112th January 20212 years ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read 1676 Views

As we begin 2021, 2020 should be remembered as the year in which politics trumped economics twice – on Brexit

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Towards a set of principles for a National Care Service

12th January 202112th January 20212 years ago Scottish Left Review 9 min read 1351 Views

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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9th November 20209th November 20202 years ago Scottish Left Review 3 min read 1821 Views

Living la vida loca lockdown Boris Johnson, for his Tory government, proclaims how ‘incredibly generous’ it is being to those

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Editorial: From clap to slap

7th September 20207th September 20202 years ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read 1292 Views

So, Boris’s near death experience this spring did not bring about any noticeable change of heart in his politics. Those

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2nd July 20202nd July 20202 years ago Scottish Left Review 8 min read 909 Views

Is the left now coming up for air? The left is in one of its classic dilemmas. On the one

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Scottish education in the Covid pandemic: to be forewarned is to be forearmed

2nd July 20202nd July 20202 years ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 563 Views

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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Crisis in the councils … mental health challenges … key workers still key? … freedom of information

2nd July 20202nd July 20202 years ago Scottish Left Review 9 min read 515 Views

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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Issue 117

9th May 20209th May 20202 years ago Scottish Left Review 7 min read 789 Views

Editorial: ‘Strange times, indeed. But maybe not that strange’. As Shakespeare’s dark and dystopian verse seems to be commonly quoted

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17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 9 min read 1086 Views

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

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Responses to #GE2019

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 33 min read 677 Views

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

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Feedback to the Editor

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 0 min read 702 Views

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

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