Was it another unique election? Only if you ignore the ‘big picture’ issues
Looking behind the election facts and figures, James Mitchell reveals the continuing, underlying dynamics of politics in Scotland. There is
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A different radical Scotland: limits of Scottish nationalism and social democracy
Gerry Hassan sees the 2021 election in a longer lens to assess the current state of Scottish democracy and point
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Lots of labouring still be done for Scottish Labour
Carol Mochan says there’s a mountain of political leg work needed but that it can be done. Scotland’s status as
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How the left won the Scottish Green Party and how that will change Scottish politics
Maggie Chapman looks back on not just a quantitative but also qualitative shift for the Scottish Greens. The Holyrood 2021
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Onwards down the yellow brick road – the SNP will do what it says it has on its tin
Chris Stephens says the populace is behind the SNP’s prospectus for a socially just independent Scotland. Seven days after Scotland
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Elections are important but radical social change comes from the bottom up
Surveying the political landscape, Linda Somerville asks: what will it mean for workers and the working-class? Hailed by the media
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Where now for Alba? And, what is to be done?
Kenny MacAskill looks back at Alba’s debut campaign and forward to its future. Sometimes in politics, as in life, the
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The state of the health of our nation? Not great and not getting better after the election
Dave Watson is the secretary of the Socialist Health Association Scotland. There are plenty of new faces in the Scottish
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Social care in Scotland: People before profit!
Iain Ferguson shows why the case for a publicly-owned and controlled care service is unanswerable. On 19 April 2021, BBC
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How can SNP and Greens end the housing crisis in Scotland?
Regina Serpa argues the SNP promise of ‘a safe, warm, affordable home’ for all is possible with a pro-independence majority.
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Making work work for all
Jane Carolan lays out an alternative approach to that offered by the SNP Scottish Government. In the election, employments rights
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Can the Greens green the SNP on transport?
David Spaven assesses the likelihood of the future of decent, environmentally transport getting better. Transport is rarely a key factor
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Chimera of consensus on radical recovery from COVID? Or grounds for optimism?
Mike Danson eyes the prospect of cross-party cooperation for a boldly ‘building back better’. As I wrote in Scottish Left
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No touchy Feeley as social care still to be tied to the market
Stephen Smellie says of the Feeley report it’s a case of several steps forward and massive one back. The broken
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UCS work in 50th anniversary
The founder of Scottish Left Review, Jimmy Reid, played a leading role in the one of the most successful campaigns
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Feedback – Held to account?
The editorial of Scottish Left Review (120, Nov-Dec 2020) ended with the statement: ‘As we go to print, Jeremy Corbyn
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The calamity of COVID that was avoidable
Lilian Macer looks back on a year of failings and flaws in the battle against COVID-19. Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is
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Challenging neo-liberal education in a post-Covid world
Brian Boyd and Henry Maitles lay out a wide-ranging critique of what is right and wrong in education. The Covid
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After the acclaim, the rightful pay claim for our key workers
Roz Foyer ask whether the Scottish Government will pass or fail the test of paying up. Since the first lockdown,
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Progressive consensus versus neo-liberal stagnation
Mike Danson asks what sort of economic renewal and recovery do we want in Scotland. As countries and governments struggle
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Misreporting Labour anti-semitism: Zionists and the right-wing now rule the roost
Sandy Hobbs finds the EHRC report to be deeply flawed, amounting to a politically inspired hatchet job. In October 2020,
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Labour at the crossroads – which way will it turn?
Tommy Kane analyses changes inside Labour and calls for the left to stay, fight and win. When Keir Starmer won
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The Say No Party – the battle is just beginning to stop the Stalinism of Sturgeon
Kenny MacAskill reviews how the SNP will act after its leadership received a recent bloody lip. Where now for the
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The struggle for Scotland: from marching to movement for the moment at hand
Keir McKechnie reports on how AUOB is changing not just to meet the times but to shape them too. Support
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Self-determination for Scotland: do we have Lenin’s courage?
Konrad Rekas ask those who want to be more than counted to stand up now. What do we need political
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Resistance that beats – to a beat – can be beautiful
Many readers of Scottish Left Review will likely know the Rock Against Racism (RAR) movement intimately— that political and cultural
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Britain after Brexit: footloose and fancy free for capricious capitalism
Vince Mills assesses the Brexit deal and warns of imminent dangers. After what seemed like interminable debate and disagreement, on
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