Of black clouds and silver linings?
Stephen Smellie argues COP26 delivered on the low expectations of it but progress was made in building a bigger and
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COP to flop: the great Glaswegian greenwash
Mary Church argues it’s hard to view COP26 as anything other than a resounding failure but the summit’s legacy is
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COP26 to CON26 – how we need to be at DEFCON level 1 to save our people and planet
Dave Sherry reviews a recent contribution to union campaign to stop climate change Climate Jobs: Building a workforce for the
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For a ‘People’s Recovery’ and a socially and environmentally just Scotland
Roz Foyer, STUC general secretary, gave the eight Jimmy Reid Foundation lecture on Thursday 7 October 2021 in Glasgow. Here
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Back to the workplace to rebuild working-class power
Helen McFarlane welcomes the election of the new UNITE leader and looks forward better times I am delighted Sharon Graham
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Against de-politicisation: For working-class environmentalism
Ewan Kerr critiques current offerings and argues for a socialist strategy to prevent planetary collapse COP26 has now arrived in
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Climate justice and climate jobs: one is necessary for the other
Below is an excerpt of a speech by Annie Morgan, speaking to the Climate Justice rally during COP26 This decade
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Bringing working class politics to COP26
Colin Fox looks at some practical steps socialists in Scotland can take to counter the climate emergency ‘The COP26 summit
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Climate, jobs and justice
Matthew Crighton reviews some core messages from a climate conference and their relevance to debates in post-election Scotland and at
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Their Just Transition and our Just Transition
Dave Moxham says it’s not so much the devil is in the detail but the visions are quite different. Up
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How green are our valleys and how green will they become?
Maggie Chapman gives a frank and honest view on the Scottish Government and Scottish Greens deal. Some on the left
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More Chaplin than Churchill? We will be laughing at Boris Johnson as the ‘Great Dictator’?
Peter Lomas argues prime ministers hold dangerous amounts of undemocratic and unilateral powers. Questioned, at the G7 July summit, about
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Uniting for change in UNISON?
Stephen Smellie gives personal reflections on UNISON’s newly elected national leadership. Glaswegian Christina McAnea was elected as general secretary of
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Working out a workable plan for an independent Scottish economy
Raphael De Santos dissects GERS, arguing for managed expectations as the first steps on a longer path. Once we get
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1971-1972: Bohemians, Beatles, Bankies and a bouquet
Chris McGachy recalls a time when music was a political force to be reckoned within workers’ struggles. Fifty years ago
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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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