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RADICAL SCOTTISH POLITICAL WRITING

Scottish Labour must take its head out of the sand

9th May 20209th May 20203 years ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 1047 Views

Neil Findlay proposes a way forward for Scottish Labour on its constitutional crisis Labour cannot ignore or wish away constitutional realities

Editorial

16th September 201919th September 20193 years ago SLR 6 min read 932 Views

Like many others, Scottish Left Review is outraged at the attack on democracy represented by prorogation and condemns this extended suspension

Dark, dismal days for democracy

15th July 201919th June 20204 years ago SLR 3 min read 889 Views

The politics of Scotland and Britain are about to enter dark days for democracy. A white, ageing and disproportionately male group

Democracy is on-going and never finished

15th July 201916th July 20194 years ago SLR 12 min read 961 Views

Willie Sullivan, Jess Garland and Michela Palese on how to fix our broken political system Most commentators seem to buy in

Scottish Parliament: essential to Scottish democracy but what kind of democracy?

15th July 201916th July 20194 years ago SLR 8 min read 958 Views

Paul Cairney argues the Scottish Parliament is fundamental to Scottish democracy but legitimises pluralist rather than participatory democracy A well-functioning and

Lessons for the West from the East: the Kurdish democratic experiment

15th July 201916th July 20194 years ago SLR 10 min read 1178 Views

Back from a women’s delegation to northern Syria in 2018, Sarah Glynn reports on her visit A common defence of liberal

How managerialism hijacked Holyrood

20th May 20194 years ago SLR 4 min read 861 Views

Colin Fox says promises have been unfulfilled, challenges ducked and the poorest Scots failed On this, the twentieth anniversary of the