Being and becoming modern giants – what it is to be human and in harmony with nature
Patrick Phillips looks at a new way of transcending our system of endless economic exchange ‘There appears to be a
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Political poems for a imagining a better world
We are pleased to published further poems by David McKinstry and David Bleiman. Cult of Career By David McKinstry Have
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15 years of covering the covers for Scottish Left Review
Nadia Lucchesi is an artist, illustrator and printmaker and has delivered bright and bold covers for Scottish Left Review. After
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Parting with Parliament to spend more time on politics
Scottish Left Review interviews Neil Findlay about a new project to bring capacity building skills to progressive community campaigners Neil
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Alba, action stations and the forthcoming local elections
Kenny MacAskill issues a rallying cry for those dispirited and disillusioned with the submissive and subservient SNP The local elections
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Not independence but self-government!
Colin Kirkwood argues against the replicating of centralised systems of government under independence In the 1960s, the Brazilian educator, Paulo
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‘They’ll never understand why I’m here’ – James Connolly, the left and the Irish War of Independence
Peter McColl looks back on the creation of the right’s dominance in the Irish republic in order to explain why
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An Ann Cleves crime in Shetland worthy of a Jimmy Perez investigation: privatisating Shetland College
Andrew Anderson looks at the lessons which must be learned from the case of Shetland for the rest of Scotland
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German federal election 2021: votes lost and re-found
Victor Grossman looks beyond Merkel’s party’s defeat to see how the left still lost out When the German election result
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Ireland: from 1921 to 2021 and with implications for independence in Scotland
On the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the Irish republic, Bill Bonnar asks questions about Scotland’s future
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Fair Work Scotland: Scotrail or Scotfail?
Gregor Gall says taking Scotrail into public ownership will test the SNP’s left credentials Industrial relations at Scotrail have been
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Could Scotland become the new Norway?
Though Raphael De Santos argues that while there’s no way to be a new Norway, there is still much scope
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Gender violence: Groundhog Day of ‘we’ve been here before’ again and again
Marsha Scott says strategic, resourced action tackling causes and symptoms is the only way forward Scottish Women’s Aid (SWA) has
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A world made less safe: Creating AUKUS
Binoy Kampmark looks behind the stramash over selling nuclear subs to see a new cold war developing The formation on
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Refugees and asylum: Unfortunately, there never was a ‘golden age’
Henry Maitles argues that Priti Patel’s ‘hostile environment’ is lamentably nothing new Current debates on refugees and attempts by Western
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National Care Service consultation: heading in the wrong direction on multiple fronts
Dave Watson identifies the dangerous attack on democracy and inadequate resourcing found in the Scottish Government’s proposals The Scottish Government
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Rebuilding the Scottish economy through worker ownership
John Bratton and David Erdal argue for one specific method for ‘building back better’. The global Covid-19 pandemic, which has
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Consummate consumers of the world unite!
Mick Rice argues workers have potential power in another arena under global corporate capitalism. It has always galled me that
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Pleasing political poetry
Ravenscraig by Robert Graham Before the steel mill shut the kids had toys and bikes, their brothers bought old banger
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From Glasgow Girls to Kenmure Street – 16 years on, the fight for humane immigration continues
Roza Salih calls for rebellion against Westminster’s inhumanity and the creation of a Scottish system. It has been 16 years
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Human dignity and honour: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto
Henry Maitles recalls the armed battle to save the last of Warsaw’s Jewry against the Nazis. In May 1943, one
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After George Square’s dangerous disorder: Rangers supporters and anti-Catholicism in Scotland
Pat Kelly analyses the roots of the bigotry and sets out what now must be done to rid us of
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