The Revival of Radical Education
A couple of years ago, deep in the pandemic, a group of trade union and community organisers, arts workers, and teachers
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Scotland
The Climate Transition Must be Real
The SNP’s climate politics are a well-directed theatre production. Political change comes not from rhetoric but from struggle, boycott, protest and
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We have devolution from Westminster but not from Holyrood: Scotland as a centralised state
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!
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!
Iain Ferguson shows why the case for a publicly-owned and controlled care service is unanswerable. On 19 April 2021, BBC Scotland
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Neither clapping nor words of acclaim for public servants pay their bills, rent and mortgages
Cat Boyd eyes opportunities to put class before constitution in the coming period. If there’s anything good to say about the
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The struggle for Scotland: from marching to movement for the moment at hand
Keir McKechnie reports on how AUOB is changing not just to meet the times but to shape them too. Support for
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Book Review
Classic recounted: Edwin Muir’s Scottish Journey, Mainstream Publishing, new edition, 1996 Commented on by Rory Green Maggie Chapman reviewed James McEnaney’s
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The Scottish Government doesn’t care about poor people
Robbie McLaughlan explains the SNP’s double-speak on the plight of the poor In September 2005, actor, Mike Myers, and hip-hop artist,
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Drug-related deaths: communities come together
Angela McCormack reports on how people are revolting against the politicians’ inaction In 2018 in Scotland, the number of drug-related deaths
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‘Old’ history for ‘new’ times – the Scottish Labour History journal
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
The politics of Scotland and Britain are about to enter dark days for democracy. A white, ageing and disproportionately male group
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Scottish Labour: hope after adversity
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
Jeremy Valentine dissects the destruction of our public universities and suggests what changes are needed to re-invigorate them as ‘public goods’
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Cuba’s post-revolution medical advances
On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of its revolution, Imti Choonara, Ollie Hopkins and Kath Campbell chart the progress of
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Demos Kratia – it is all Greek to us for people power?
Ian Paterson argues there are ways of producing proficient politics Us Scots are kidding ourselves, if we think we’re a good
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Greening economics and politics with social justice
Francis Stuart argues unions are central to creating the Just Transition At STUC’s most recent annual congress, a number of resolutions
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Scottish Labour – the return of its radical roots
Mike Cowley says under Richard Leonard Scottish Labour is back on its way to influence In November 2017, Scottish Labour elected
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