The People’s Recovery: A different track for Scotland’s economy

9th November 20209th November 20202 months ago Scottish Left Review 727 Views COVID calamity., Roz Foyer, STUC 9 min read

Roz Foyer introduces the Scottish Trades Union Congress’s response to the COVID calamity. We face the biggest economic crisis in

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Poems penned during the pandemic

9th November 20209th November 20202 months ago Scottish Left Review 134 Views David McKinstry, poems 2 min read

Last issue, we featured two poems from history teacher, David McKinstry, who had been engaged in home schooling and dealing

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

7th September 202030th September 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 850 Views Lilian Macer, pandemic, Scottish Government, UNISON Convener, WHO. Test 4 min read

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 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 748 Views 2m, Andrew Watterson, carelessness and incompetence of government policy and practice, Hilda Palmer, Janet Newsham, Rory O’Neill, social distance, two-metre 10 min read

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 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 704 Views council services, essential services, Kate Ramsden, UNISON 5 min read

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 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 497 Views Alexander Dennis Limited, government action, green jobs, Just Transition, Pat Rafferty, UNITE union 4 min read

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 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 363 Views Bring Back British Rail, Ellie Harrison, Get Glasgow Moving public transport campaign., Glasgow, green transport system 4 min read

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 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 246 Views a green just transition, Europe, Green Party, Molly Scott-Cato, Professor of Green Economics at the University of Roehampton 4 min read

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 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 221 Views Bank of England, Dave Sherry, mobilise the unemployed, UNITE's retired member section 5 min read

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 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 267 Views COVID, David McKinstry, education, poems, Port Glasgow High School, teacher 1 min read

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 20207 months ago Scottish Left Review 204 Views Chancellor, COVID 19, economic and financial initiatives, public health emergency of international concern, UK, WHO 7 min read

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 20207 months ago Scottish Left Review 144 Views COVID-19 crisis, Fair Work Convention, Roz Foyer, STUC, workplaces 9 min read

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 20207 months ago Scottish Left Review 176 Views Care after COVID, private sector care, South Lanarkshire, Stephen Smellie, UNISON 5 min read

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 20207 months ago Scottish Left Review 145 Views COVID 19, Domestic abuse, Domestic abuse and COVID-19, Megan Gordon, Scottish Women’s Aid 4 min read

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 20208 months ago Scottish Left Review 225 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) 19 min read

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

9th May 20209th May 20208 months ago Scottish Left Review 162 Views Andrew Watterson, COVID, government failures, post-crisis economic solutions, social reconstruction, unions 9 min read

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

9th May 20209th May 20208 months ago Scottish Left Review 116 Views crisis, crucial role of retail workers, retail workers as key workers, Stewart Forrest, Usdaw 4 min read

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 20208 months ago Scottish Left Review 117 Views economics, Green Party, Mags Hall, oppotunity, the environment 4 min read

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 20208 months ago Scottish Left Review 116 Views Ben Kritiko, government, Spaghetti for Brains, tenants’ plight 4 min read

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 20208 months ago Scottish Left Review 112 Views 4 min read

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 202010 months ago SLR 153 Views Boris Johnson, Issue 116, trade unions Scotland 4 min read

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 202010 months ago Scottish Left Review 104 Views General Secretary Designate, right-wing populism, Rozanne Foyer, STUC, unions work 4 min read

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 202010 months ago Scottish Left Review 100 Views Mike Kirby, public services, UNISON, workers 4 min read

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 202010 months ago Scottish Left Review 145 Views governments, living wage, Pat Rafferty, Scottish regional secretary, Unite the union 4 min read

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 202010 months ago Scottish Left Review 99 Views jobs, retail, Stewart Forrest, Usdaw, Usdaw Scotland, violence crisis 4 min read

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

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