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Failing the test: the calamity of COVID-19 testing in Scotland

7th September 20207th September 20203 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 499 Views Lilian Macer, pandemic, Scottish Government, UNISON Convener, WHO. Test

Lilian Macer excoriates the Scottish Government’s approach as inadequate to deal with pandemic we are facing The World Health Organisation

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Keep your 2m distance during the pandemic

7th September 20207th September 20203 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 443 Views 2m, Andrew Watterson, carelessness and incompetence of government policy and practice, Hilda Palmer, Janet Newsham, Rory O’Neill, social distance, two-metre

Andrew Watterson, Rory O’Neill, Janet Newsham and Hilda Palmer critique the carelessness and incompetence of government policy and practice The

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Pandemic panic of the streets of Dundee, Dunfermline and Dumbarton from cruel continuing cuts

7th September 20207th September 20203 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 274 Views council services, essential services, Kate Ramsden, UNISON

Kate Ramsden argues we must take political advantage of the pandemic to rebuild our local public services Covid-19 has highlighted

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Don’t throw our members under the bus

7th September 20207th September 20203 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 224 Views Alexander Dennis Limited, government action, green jobs, Just Transition, Pat Rafferty, UNITE union

Pat Rafferty looks at the case of ADL to argue that only government action can secure green jobs and help

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Building back better in the ‘Dear Green Place’ with free buses and trains

7th September 202016th September 20203 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 114 Views Bring Back British Rail, Ellie Harrison, Get Glasgow Moving public transport campaign., Glasgow, green transport system

Ellie Harrison makes the case for getting Glasgow to go green and free in its transport system September 2020 sees

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How green is the EU recovery plan?

7th September 20207th September 20203 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 66 Views a green just transition, Europe, Green Party, Molly Scott-Cato, Professor of Green Economics at the University of Roehampton

Molly Scott-Cato assesses the pros and cons of efforts in Europe to make a green just transition The mantra ‘Build

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Uniting and fighting – how unemployed workers can be collectively organised

7th September 20207th September 20203 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 99 Views Bank of England, Dave Sherry, mobilise the unemployed, UNITE's retired member section

Dave Sherry recounts previous examples of campaigns to mobilise the unemployed as part of a wider labour movement struggle The

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Poems from Lockdown

7th September 20207th September 20203 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 113 Views COVID, David McKinstry, education, poems, Port Glasgow High School, teacher

Culture and creativity during Covid: teaching and learning at home David McKinstry is a teacher – see his biographical details

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Money begets money: how the Tories helped the rich get richer during the COVID-19 crisis

2nd July 20202nd July 20203 months ago Scottish Left Review 50 Views Chancellor, COVID 19, economic and financial initiatives, public health emergency of international concern, UK, WHO

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

2nd July 20202nd July 20203 months ago Scottish Left Review 39 Views COVID-19 crisis, Fair Work Convention, Roz Foyer, STUC, workplaces

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

2nd July 20202nd July 20203 months ago Scottish Left Review 47 Views Care after COVID, private sector care, South Lanarkshire, Stephen Smellie, UNISON

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

2nd July 20207th July 20203 months ago Scottish Left Review 43 Views COVID 19, Domestic abuse, Domestic abuse and COVID-19, Megan Gordon, Scottish Women’s Aid

Megan Gordon reports that a bad situation is getting worse – so much more funding is needed Imagine that you

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Coronavirus crisis: underfunding, restructuring, privatisation and fragmentation at the heart of the crisis in Holyrood and Westminster

9th May 20209th May 20205 months ago Scottish Left Review 43 Views Allyson Pollock, Allyson Pollock an Louisa Harding-Edgar, British COVID crisis, contact tracing, London-centric, Louisa Harding-Edgar, public health measures to prevent COVID-19, Scottish Government, seal borders, stop travel, World Health Organisation (WHO)

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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From sidelined to significant: how retail workers became key workers in our communities

9th May 20209th May 20205 months ago Scottish Left Review 25 Views crisis, crucial role of retail workers, retail workers as key workers, Stewart Forrest, Usdaw

Stewart Forrest says it should not have taken a crisis to recognise the crucial role of retail workers When the

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Out of crisis, opportunity: economics and the environment

9th May 20209th May 20205 months ago Scottish Left Review 29 Views economics, Green Party, Mags Hall, oppotunity, the environment

Mags Hall argues that the precedents being set can be used to open up a greener and fairer future There

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Wracked by rent but fighting back against the pandemic penury

9th May 20209th May 20205 months ago Scottish Left Review 22 Views Ben Kritiko, government, Spaghetti for Brains, tenants’ plight

Ben Kritikos says a bad situation is getting worse as governments ignore the tenants’ plight The coronavirus pandemic has widened

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After COVID-19, there can be no more ‘business as usual’ for our railways

9th May 20209th May 20205 months ago Scottish Left Review 29 Views

Mick Cash says though there is ‘clear and present’ danger, we have a political opportunity on our hands It goes

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Issue 116 Editorial

24th March 202024th March 20206 months ago SLR 22 Views Boris Johnson, Issue 116, trade unions Scotland

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

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Unions work: planning for growth to tackle pressing problems

24th March 202024th March 20206 months ago Scottish Left Review 18 Views General Secretary Designate, right-wing populism, Rozanne Foyer, STUC, unions work

It won’t be ‘business as usual’ as Rozanne Foyer leads the STUC to get its ‘business’ done I begin my

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Unions: first, last and best line of defence

24th March 202024th March 20206 months ago Scottish Left Review 19 Views Mike Kirby, public services, UNISON, workers

Mike Kirby surveys the terrain on which the battle to defend public services and their workers will be fought The

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Unions defending workers’ jobs and their communities: doing what it says on the tin

24th March 20206 months ago Scottish Left Review 32 Views governments, living wage, Pat Rafferty, Scottish regional secretary, Unite the union

Pat Rafferty lays out what governments can do but only if they are pushed to do so Scotland is being

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Stopping shopworkers from being the poor relations

24th March 202024th March 20206 months ago Scottish Left Review 22 Views jobs, retail, Stewart Forrest, Usdaw, Usdaw Scotland, violence crisis

Stewart Forrest outlines what Usdaw is doing to fight the jobs and violence crisis in retail Usdaw is one of

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Comrades, come rally – the cuts are Cumming

24th March 202024th March 20206 months ago Scottish Left Review 24 Views austerity, Cat Boyd, PCS union

Cat Boyd shows how the PCS union is preparing to fight further austerity Austerity has done more to reshape Britain

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Unions must lead the fight back

24th March 202024th March 20206 months ago Scottish Left Review 16 Views Denise Christie, FBU, FBU Scotland, unions

Denise Christie shows how the FBU is fighting back and calls for coordinated action to support sister unions There have

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4f + 1f = 5f (where ‘f’ stands for FIGHT)

24th March 202024th March 20206 months ago Scottish Left Review 24 Views fair pay, Mary Senior, pensions, UCU

Mary Senior does the maths and comes up with the right answers in the fight for fair pay and pensions

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