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Editorial When politics trumped economics

12th January 202112th January 20214 months ago Scottish Left Review 958 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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Let the purges begin: Corbyn, alleged anti-Semitism and Labour

7th September 20207th September 20208 months ago Scottish Left Review 656 Views 'Frobisher's Field' and 'Lions & Tigers', anti-semitism, Chris Sutherland, EHRC, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer, Labour, Palestinian Solidarity Campaign 9 min read

Chris Sutherland analyses the lasts contours of the one of the most successful political campaign of recent years Has reporter

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From independence to Corbyn and back again to independence

7th September 20207th September 20208 months ago Scottish Left Review 446 Views Independence, Labour, Stella Rooney, Unite Young Members Scotland 4 min read

Stella Rooney explains her changing perspective on her campaigning priorities In 2014, I was inspired to take political action for

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2nd July 20202nd July 202010 months ago Scottish Left Review 391 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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Scottish Labour must take its head out of the sand

9th May 20209th May 202012 months ago Scottish Left Review 354 Views constitutional crisis, Democracy, Labour, Lothians Labour List MSP, Neil Findlay, Scottish Labour 4 min read

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

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Battered, bloodied and bruised: down but not out

17th January 202017th January 20201 year ago SLR 384 Views Brexit, Labour, Richard Leonard, Scottish Labour, second independence referendum, working people 4 min read

Richard Leonard says when the people speak, political parties must listen The election result was grave for Labour. Though we

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Independence, yes, but for whom and from what?

17th January 202017th January 20201 year ago SLR 329 Views automation of work, Brexit, climate emergency, Corbyn, Grahame Smith, Labour, Labour’s English heartlands, publicly-owned and run railway, state-owned energy company, STUC, TUC 4 min read

Grahame Smith says resolving constitutional matters can unlock progress on social and economic issues After such a momentous election result,

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Against the lie machines – Labour and anti-semitism

17th January 202017th January 20201 year ago SLR 212 Views anti-semitism, choreographed intervention of the Chief Rabbi, defame, discredit, explicit anti-Semitism, Glasgow University Media Group, Holocaust, Labour, Palestinian struggle, State of Israel 5 min read

Mike Cowley reviews ‘Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief’ (Pluto, September 2019) In conducting their research

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Responses to #GE2019

17th January 202017th January 20201 year ago SLR 264 Views Communist, Labour, Scottish Socialist Party, SNP Green 33 min read

We asked a further range of left activists and commentators to provide their assessments of what happened and what we

Film Review

Documentary Review

17th January 202017th January 20201 year ago SLR 199 Views 134th Durham Miners’ Gala, Dennis Skinner, Jackie Bergson, Labour 3 min read

The Big Meeting (2019), director: Daniel Draper, editor: Christie Allanson Reviewed by Jackie Bergson The Big Meeting is a documentary

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15th November 20191 year ago SLR 265 Views Boris Johnston, Corbyn, General Election, Labour, SNP 7 min read

All articles in this issue bar the editorial and the Brexit election tracker were written before the decision of parliament

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Brexit and the rise of the ‘Del boy’ ruling class

16th September 201916th September 20192 years ago SLR 235 Views Boris Johnson, Brexit, British capitalism, Conservative Party, Labour, ruling class, SNP 9 min read

George Kerevan says the British ruling class is experiencing an extended crisis best epitomised by Brexit When Boris Johnson’s political

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Labour’s political prowess – powerful progress in prospect!

16th September 201916th September 20192 years ago SLR 202 Views Jeremy Corbyn Government, Labour, MPs, Nigel Farage, Tories 4 min read

Stephen Low argues Labour’s guns are ready and loaded to shoot Boris and the Tories given the chance A Labour

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‘New’ SNP but same old party lessons?

16th September 20192 years ago SLR 261 Views centralisation, Labour, marginalisation, Scottish Labour, SNP 9 min read

Though still in poll position, Kenny MacAskill argues all is not well in the ‘House of SNP’ Scotland’s political order

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Scottish Labour: hope after adversity

15th July 201916th July 20192 years ago SLR 231 Views Labour, leadership, Richard Leonard, Scotland 4 min read

Siobhan McCready says it’s time for Leonard’s leadership to be supported not supplanted When Richard Leonard won the Scottish Labour

Kick up the Tabloids

VLADIMIR McTAVISH’S A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS

18th March 20192 years ago SLR 201 Views comedy, Jeremy Hardy, Labour, left-wing politics, political comedian, Vladimir McTavish 4 min read

I’m writing this from South Australia, where I’m performing for a month. Despite the country’s close cultural links to Britain,

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Labour’s Scottish problem

14th January 20192 years ago SLR 265 Views Brexit, Corbyn, EU Withdrawal Bill, Independence, Labour, meaningful vote, neo-racist fringe, polls, Richard Leonard, Scottish Labour, Scottish Socialist Party, SNP, Theresa May, Tory Party, vote of No Confidence 4 min read

Róisín McLaren argues Scottish Labour’s star cannot rise until it changes course on independence A YouGov opinion poll published on

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Tory Party implodes as Brexit explodes

12th November 201829th November 20182 years ago SLR 222 Views Brexit, Common Market, DUP, EEA, EFTA, EU, Jacob Rees Mogg, Jeremy CorbynJohnson, Keir Starmer, Labour, PM May, Scotland, Thatcher 4 min read

Neil Findlay articulates Labour’s position The next few weeks and months will see the culmination of a forty-year civil war

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Recipe for austerity and exploitation

24th September 201824th September 20183 years ago SLR 218 Views Andrew Wilson, Denmark, Labour, SNP, Sustainable Growth Commission, Tartan Toryism, unemployment 8 min read

David Byrne argues that Tartan Toryism is back on the cards. In 2015, Nicola Sturgeon established a Sustainable Growth Commission

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Labour, anti-semitism and the IHRA

24th September 20183 years ago SLR 437 Views anti-semitic, anti-Zionist, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Israeli government, Labour, Palestine, Zionists 4 min read

Henry Maitles outlines the dangers of anti-semitism being conflated with anti-Zionism. Anti-semitism, like all racism, is reactionary and can permeate

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