Scotland Archives - RADICAL SCOTTISH POLITICAL WRITING

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We have devolution from Westminster but not from Holyrood: Scotland as a centralised state

14th March 202214th March 20221 year ago Scottish Left Review 9 min read

James Mitchell decries the lack of local power in local government and advocates radical reform. Somewhere along the way, debate on

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Not independence but self-government!

10th January 202210th January 20221 year ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read

Colin Kirkwood argues against the replicating of centralised systems of government under independence In the 1960s, the Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire,

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Social care in Scotland: People before profit!

25th May 202125th May 20212 years ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read

Iain Ferguson shows why the case for a publicly-owned and controlled care service is unanswerable. On 19 April 2021, BBC Scotland

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

8th March 20218th March 20212 years ago Scottish Left Review 3 min read

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

The struggle for Scotland: from marching to movement for the moment at hand

12th January 202112th January 20212 years ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read

Keir McKechnie reports on how AUOB is changing not just to meet the times but to shape them too. Support for

Book Review

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read

Classic recounted: Edwin Muir’s Scottish Journey, Mainstream Publishing, new edition, 1996 Commented on by Rory Green Maggie Chapman reviewed James McEnaney’s

The Scottish Government doesn’t care about poor people

16th September 20194 years ago SLR 9 min read

Robbie McLaughlan explains the SNP’s double-speak on the plight of the poor In September 2005, actor, Mike Myers, and hip-hop artist,

Drug-related deaths: communities come together

16th September 201916th September 20194 years ago SLR 4 min read

Angela McCormack reports on how people are revolting against the politicians’ inaction In 2018 in Scotland, the number of drug-related deaths

‘Old’ history for ‘new’ times – the Scottish Labour History journal

16th September 201916th September 20194 years ago SLR 4 min read

Ian Gasse reports on the relaunch of a valuable resource for all those concerning with the plight of workers’ struggles in

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Dark, dismal days for democracy

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

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

Scottish Labour: hope after adversity

15th July 201916th July 20194 years ago SLR 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 leadership

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Governance, marketization and Scotland’s universities

15th July 201916th July 20194 years ago SLR 9 min read

Jeremy Valentine dissects the destruction of our public universities and suggests what changes are needed to re-invigorate them as ‘public goods’

Cuba’s post-revolution medical advances

20th May 201920th May 20194 years ago SLR 4 min read

On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of its revolution, Imti Choonara, Ollie Hopkins and Kath Campbell chart the progress of

Demos Kratia – it is all Greek to us for people power?

18th March 20194 years ago SLR 4 min read

Ian Paterson argues there are ways of producing proficient politics Us Scots are kidding ourselves, if we think we’re a good

Just Equitable Inclusive Transition

Greening economics and politics with social justice

14th January 20194 years ago SLR 8 min read

Francis Stuart argues unions are central to creating the Just Transition At STUC’s most recent annual congress, a number of resolutions

Scottish Labour – the return of its radical roots

14th January 20194 years ago SLR 4 min read

Mike Cowley says under Richard Leonard Scottish Labour is back on its way to influence In November 2017, Scottish Labour elected

Age, ageing and ageism: how ageist is Scotland?

14th January 20194 years ago SLR 4 min read

Bill Johnston argues the left needs to start taking ageism seriously and act accordingly Part one (Scottish Left Review issue 108,

Labour and Brexit

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Tory Party implodes as Brexit explodes

12th November 201829th November 20185 years ago SLR 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 amongst

Preparations for the day of reckoning on independence

12th November 20185 years ago SLR 4 min read

Max Wiszniewski explains what the Scottish Independence Convention funding raising initiative is about It’s time for the Scottish independence movement to

No cash for questions: just long years of hard labour

24th September 201825th September 20185 years ago SLR 9 min read

Scottish Left Review interviews Bob Thomson as he steps down at the age of 75 from the leading role he has

Do we need a Scottish Fair Wages Resolution?

24th September 201826th September 20185 years ago SLR 4 min read

Mick Rice makes the case for the Scottish Parliament to improve the treatment of its own staff. The Scottish Parliament can