RADICAL SCOTTISH POLITICAL WRITING

Editorial:The fight for a Scotland we want.

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 808 Views Editorial, Holyrood election, Scottish Labour, SNP, STUC 4 min read

This issue is our traditional STUC congress themed issue. In it, and in addition to hearing from the STUC itself,

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Building back better: Fairer and greener for people not profit

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 557 Views fair and green goals, Roz Foyer, STUC, STUC Congress 4 min read

Roz Foyer outlines the STUC agenda for the coming period and how it is working to gain these goals. Across

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Rebooting and rebuilding unions’ fighting capacity

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 556 Views COVID-19, mental health, Pat Rafferty, UNITE Scotland 4 min read

Pat Rafferty sees much opportunity to strengthen union organisation amid the challenges of COVID. The last year has been one

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Neither clapping nor words of acclaim for public servants pay their bills, rent and mortgages

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 533 Views Cat Boyd, COVID-19, PCS, Scotland, unions 3 min read

Cat Boyd eyes opportunities to put class before constitution in the coming period. If there’s anything good to say about

Editorial Comment

For investment and education-led recovery and restitution

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 577 Views chools, colleges, EIS, Scottish Education 3 min read

Larry Flanagan does not pull his punches in laying out what the EIS demands of the Scottish Government. Scottish education,

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Firefighting doesn’t require firefighting problems but instead sustained and strategic investment

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 267 Views Denise Christie, FBU Scotland, investment, Scottish Government 4 min read

Denise Christie says our fire and rescue service requires the Scottish Government to make a decision turn. The COVID-19 pandemic

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A year unlike any other: pressure in the prison, correctional and secure psychiatric system

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 155 Views pandemic, Phil Fairlie, POA in Scotland, Prison officers, prisoners, public service workers 4 min read

Phil Fairlie says the time for debts to be paid to public service workers has now arrived. Following a year

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Navigating through COVID, Brexit and the Scottish Parliament 2021 elections

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 209 Views challenges, education, Mary Senior, UCU’s Scotland Official 4 min read

Mary Senior surveys the changing landscape to identify the countless challenges in higher education. In unprecedented times, last March the

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Coming out stronger – coming out fighting

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 202 Views branches, campaigning, Economy, members, Mike Kirby, pandemic, UNISON Scotland 4 min read

Mike Kirby reports that UNISON Scotland is meeting the challenge of organising online. Over the last year, UNISON branches across

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The COVID crisis shows Scotland requires constant connectivity

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 158 Views broadband, class, communication, COVID pandemic, Craig Anderson, CWU, full-fibre 4 min read

Craig Anderson shows how the CWU union takes a class position on communication. The COVID pandemic has changed how we

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Can the Fair Work Framework make Scotland a fair work nation?

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 292 Views collective bargaining, conditions, Fair Work Convention Report, pay, Professor Gregor Gall, University of Leeds 4 min read

Gregor Gall analyses a recent report by the Fair Work Convention and finds it fatally flawed. The ‘Fair Work Framework’

Film Review

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 174 Views A Private War (2018), director Matthew Heineman, Marie Colvin, post-traumatic-stress, screenwriters Arash Amel and Marie Brenner 2 min read

A Private War (2018), director: Matthew Heineman, screenwriters: Arash Amel and Marie Brenner Reviewed by Jackie Bergson Bridging the period

Book Review

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 199 Views inspiring women, Judy Cox, leading women, Lorna McKinnon, Rebellious Daughters of History, Socialist Workers’ Party in Glasgow 2 min read

Judy Cox, Rebellious Daughters of History, 2021, Redwords, 9781912926947, £10, pp128 Reviewed by Lorna McKinnon Where can we look to

Editorial Comment

A Poem

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 115 Views ‘Visionaries’ by David McKinstry, Churchill, rebuild, welfare state 0 min read

‘Visionaries’ by David McKinstry, Glasgow As winter turned to spring And Churchill’s bombast stilled, The nation turned to quiet Clem

Kick up the Tabloids

VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS

8th March 20218th March 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 179 Views A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS, Facebook, Lockdown, The Thursday Show, Twitch, Vladimir McTavish, Youtube 4 min read

In Britain, it is now a year since the Coronavirus pandemic reached our shores. And to mark the first anniversary

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Editorial When politics trumped economics

12th January 202112th January 20215 months ago Scottish Left Review 1014 Views Brexit, COVID-19, Editor, Holyrood, Labour, SNP, Tories 5 min read

As we begin 2021, 2020 should be remembered as the year in which politics trumped economics twice – on Brexit

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UCS work in 50th anniversary

12th January 202112th January 20215 months ago Scottish Left Review 691 Views Jimmy Reid, Scottish Left Review, UCS 1 min read

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?

12th January 202112th January 20215 months ago Scottish Left Review 559 Views anti-semitism, Carole Ewart, EHRC, Human Rights, Labour Party 4 min read

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

12th January 202112th January 20215 months ago Scottish Left Review 966 Views Convenor UNISON Scotland, COVID, Lilian Macer, NHS Scotland, staff 9 min read

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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Towards a set of principles for a National Care Service

12th January 202112th January 20215 months ago Scottish Left Review 814 Views Human Rights, National Care Service, Nick Kempe, reform of care in Scotland 9 min read

Nick Kempe outlines the key principles and values that must underpin the reform of care in Scotland. The Scottish Government’s

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Challenging neo-liberal education in a post-Covid world

12th January 202112th January 20215 months ago Scottish Left Review 300 Views Brian Boyd, Curriculum for Excellence, education, Henry Maitles, Scottish Qualifications Authority, SQA 9 min read

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

12th January 202112th January 20215 months ago Scottish Left Review 334 Views carers, COVID, poorly paid public sector workers, Public Sector pay, Roz Foyer, Scottish Government, STUC 4 min read

Roz Foyer ask whether the Scottish Government will pass or fail the test of paying up. Since the first lockdown,

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Current Issue

Editorial:The fight for a Scotland we want.

Building back better: Fairer and greener for people not profit

Rebooting and rebuilding unions’ fighting capacity

Neither clapping nor words of acclaim for public servants pay their bills, rent and mortgages

For investment and education-led recovery and restitution

Firefighting doesn’t require firefighting problems but instead sustained and strategic investment

A year unlike any other: pressure in the prison, correctional and secure psychiatric system

Navigating through COVID, Brexit and the Scottish Parliament 2021 elections

Coming out stronger – coming out fighting

The COVID crisis shows Scotland requires constant connectivity

Can the Fair Work Framework make Scotland a fair work nation?

Weegie climate warriors go to war to green up the dear old ‘Green Place’ of Glasgow

‘Play it again, Sam’: projecting the prizes and pitfalls for the political parties

Finding a new ‘third way’ between independence and unionism

Film Review

Book Review

A Poem

VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS

Editorial When politics trumped economics

UCS work in 50th anniversary

Feedback – Held to account?

The calamity of COVID that was avoidable

Towards a set of principles for a National Care Service

Challenging neo-liberal education in a post-Covid world

After the acclaim, the rightful pay claim for our key workers