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Editorial

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 121 Views COVID19, Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, Labour, Left, Tories 8 min read

Is the left now coming up for air? The left is in one of its classic dilemmas. On the one

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2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 33 Views capitalist society, Mary MacCallum Sullivan refelcts on SLR's review of the big issues presented by the pandemic, pandemic, workers’ movement 4 min read

Mary MacCallum Sullivan starts with an apology to SLR: I wish I’d met you earlier I regret the delay. I

Feature

Money begets money: how the Tories helped the rich get richer during the COVID-19 crisis

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 80 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 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 57 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

Feature

Crisis within a crisis: the failure of private sector care

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 70 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

Feature

Domestic abuse and COVID-19

2nd July 20207th July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 68 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

Editorial Comment

Scottish education in the Covid pandemic: to be forewarned is to be forearmed

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 39 Views Bill Ramsay, children's rights, EIS, reade union rights, return to school, Scottish Education 4 min read

With so much still unknown, Bill Ramsay says the rush to return to school is ill-advised and dangerous When considering

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Universal Basic Income: simple solution to a complex conundrum?

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 50 Views poverty, UBI, Universal Basic Income:, William Craig 9 min read

William Craig surveys the arguments and evidence on a topical subject The enormous upheaval caused by the pandemic has forced

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Covid-19 and the campaign against climate change and a just transition

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 49 Views climate change, COVID 19, Gordon Morgan, Just Transition 8 min read

Gordon Morgan lays out a 22-point plan to bring about a decisive change Across the world, CO2 emissions are falling

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Is Coronavirus causing a shift in attitudes towards immigration?

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 104 Views Coronavirus, immigration, Immigration Advice Service, Lubnaa Joomun, NHS 4 min read

Lubnaa Joomun reveals some seemingly positive changes but wonders whether they will be permanent Only four years ago, immigration was

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Crisis in the councils … mental health challenges … key workers still key? … freedom of information

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 53 Views Councils, FoI, shop workers 9 min read

Comment: Four Separate Issues Arising from COVID-19 Response Councils in Scotland have been at the forefront in dealing with COVID-19

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Combating misogyny and sexism on the left: a shift is needed and must come

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 75 Views Frances Curran, Labour Movement, misogyny, sexism 4 min read

Frances Curran recounts her personal and political experience of coming up against ‘male privilege’ Attitudes towards women’s oppression and sexism

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What should an ideal Scottish male leader look like?

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 34 Views Heather Farley, ideal leadership, non-gendered, Saffron Roberts, Zero Tolerance 4 min read

Heather Farley and Saffron Roberts say there should be a non-gendered type of ideal leadership Abuse of power by leading

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Taking arms dealing seriously – what needs to happen

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 49 Views arms dealing, Jonathan Deans, murder 9 min read

Jonathan Deans explains the how and why of an unregulated business that gets away with murder What do the movement

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How will the pandemic change the Scottish political landscape?

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 41 Views Colin Fox, Holyrood 2021 elections, Scottish Socialist Party 4 min read

Ahead of the Holyrood 2021 elections, Colin Fox argues all that is solid just might melt into air With less

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Forget your roots at your political peril

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 41 Views Kansas, Kenny MacAskill, SNP 4 min read

Kenny MacAskill considers the case of Kansas to give a handle on those feeling left behind but not left It’s

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‘Jack Jones: The Unsung Hero’ – making a film about a union leader

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 69 Views Hurricane Films, Jack Jones, Nigel Flanagan, The Unsung Hero, trade unions 4 min read

Nigel Flanagan tells the tale of the subject of the film and the means by which is was made Sat

Obituary

Remembering Neil Davidson

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 114 Views Neil Davidson 4 min read

By celebration and critique, Gregor Gall commemorates the contribution of Neil Davidson Socialists in Scotland lost one of their finest

Film Review

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 35 Views Emelie Mahdahvian, Hassan Fazili, Jackie Bergson, Midnight Traveller 3 min read

Midnight Traveller (2020) – Director: Hassan Fazili, Editor: Emelie Mahdahvian Reviewed by Jackie Bergson Increasingly soaring refugee numbers within recent

Book Review

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 34 Views 'The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820, Murray Armstrong, Pluto Press, Sean Sheehan 3 min read

Murray Armstrong The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820, Pluto Press, 2020, 9780745341330, pp228 Reviewed by Sean

Book Review

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 43 Views 'Radical Scotland: Uncovering Scotland’s Radical History - from the French Revolutionary era to the 1820 Rising', Biteback, Colin Darroch, Gordon Leggate, Kenny MacAskill 6 min read

Kenny MacAskill Radical Scotland: Uncovering Scotland’s Radical History – from the French Revolutionary era to the 1820 Rising, Biteback, 2020,

Kick up the Tabloids

VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS

2nd July 20202nd July 20204 months ago Scottish Left Review 30 Views Kick up the Tabloids, Vladimir McTavish 4 min read

Twelve weeks into lockdown, and our through-the-looking-glass ‘new normal’ becomes ever more bizarre. While everyone’s lives seem identical from one

Editorial Comment

Issue 117

9th May 20209th May 20205 months ago Scottish Left Review 69 Views Coronavirus 7 min read

Editorial: ‘Strange times, indeed. But maybe not that strange’. As Shakespeare’s dark and dystopian verse seems to be commonly quoted

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9th May 20209th May 20205 months ago Scottish Left Review 41 Views climate emergency, constructive changes, election, Feedback, Mary MacCallum Sullivan 2 min read

A first-time reader, Mary MacCallum Sullivan, reflects on our general election analysis (SLR 115) I am ‘of the left’, but

Feature

Coronavirus crisis: underfunding, restructuring, privatisation and fragmentation at the heart of the crisis in Holyrood and Westminster

9th May 20209th May 20205 months ago Scottish Left Review 72 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 20205 months ago Scottish Left Review 60 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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Money begets money: how the Tories helped the rich get richer during the COVID-19 crisis

Fighting for fairness in COVID-19 crisis: workers and unions provide the sensible solution

Crisis within a crisis: the failure of private sector care

Domestic abuse and COVID-19

Scottish education in the Covid pandemic: to be forewarned is to be forearmed

Universal Basic Income: simple solution to a complex conundrum?

Covid-19 and the campaign against climate change and a just transition

Is Coronavirus causing a shift in attitudes towards immigration?

Crisis in the councils … mental health challenges … key workers still key? … freedom of information

Combating misogyny and sexism on the left: a shift is needed and must come

What should an ideal Scottish male leader look like?

Taking arms dealing seriously – what needs to happen

How will the pandemic change the Scottish political landscape?

Forget your roots at your political peril

‘Jack Jones: The Unsung Hero’ – making a film about a union leader

Remembering Neil Davidson

Film Review

Book Review

Book Review

VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS

Issue 117

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Coronavirus crisis: underfunding, restructuring, privatisation and fragmentation at the heart of the crisis in Holyrood and Westminster