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Parting with Parliament to spend more time on politics

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 8 min read 633 Views

Scottish Left Review interviews Neil Findlay about a new project to bring capacity building skills to progressive community campaigners Neil

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Editorial: Old wine in old bottles?

25th May 202125th May 20211 year ago Scottish Left Review 10 min read 2462 Views

Though Charles Dickens did not say ‘It was not the best of times. It was not quite the worst of

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A different radical Scotland: limits of Scottish nationalism and social democracy

25th May 202125th May 20211 year ago Scottish Left Review 9 min read 1004 Views

Gerry Hassan sees the 2021 election in a longer lens to assess the current state of Scottish democracy and point

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Chimera of consensus on radical recovery from COVID? Or grounds for optimism?

25th May 202125th May 20211 year ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 536 Views

Mike Danson eyes the prospect of cross-party cooperation for a boldly ‘building back better’. As I wrote in Scottish Left

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Bringing up the Bairns O’ Adam – the STUC, Scotland and social justice

9th May 20209th May 20202 years ago Scottish Left Review 6 min read 696 Views

Grahame Smith reflects on some tumultuous times as he bows out from leading the STUC Writing a reflection on over

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Book Review

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 2 min read 774 Views

Gerry Hassan and Simon Barrow (eds.) Scotland the Brave? Twenty Years of Change and the Future of the Nation, 2019,

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Striking out for our future against a dead planet

15th November 20193 years ago SLR 3 min read 610 Views

Dylan Hamilton reflects on what was achieved in the September climate action On Friday 20 September, the week of climate

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

15th July 201916th July 20193 years ago SLR 8 min read 761 Views

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

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Editorial – 20th Anniversary Reflections on the Scottish Parliament

20th May 20193 years ago SLR 9 min read 678 Views

The theme of this issue of Scottish Left Review is an examination of the intentions, processes and outcomes of the

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Red Scotland unrealised?

20th May 20193 years ago SLR 4 min read 695 Views

Elaine Smith argues the Scottish Parliament has made little progress in realising it essential tasks. Gordon Brown, in The Red

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Twenty years of the Scottish Parliament

20th May 20193 years ago SLR 4 min read 757 Views

Alex Neil is both proud and disappointed on the amount of left progress made. When I was elected as a

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Scottish Parliament still to reach its full potential

20th May 20193 years ago SLR 4 min read 552 Views

Dennis Canavan says only independence will allow Holyrood to become a heart in a heartless world. Throughout my entire political

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Building democracy for the next 20 years

20th May 20193 years ago SLR 4 min read 648 Views

Grahame Smith argues the Parliament has made a good start but has unfinished business. In his iconic speech at the

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Claim of Right for Scotland

The campaign for a Scottish Parliament

20th May 20193 years ago SLR 4 min read 827 Views

Pat Kelly recalls the struggle for a Scottish Assembly and how it shaped the Parliament we have today. In his

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Calling for a democratic, decentralised revolution

20th May 20193 years ago SLR 4 min read 596 Views

Maggie Chapman believes new opportunities are now presenting themselves In the 1980s, communist stalwart, Joe Slovo, set out a two-stage

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The parliamentary road to tackling poverty?

20th May 20193 years ago SLR 4 min read 695 Views

Peter Kelly says policies without powers behind them are coming up short in progress against poverty There are currently more

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Not yet even a half-way house: parliamentary progress on housing poverty

20th May 20193 years ago SLR 3 min read 615 Views

Graeme Brown reviews progress on housing and homelessness since 1999 1999 seems both close and very distant now. It’s hard

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Stalled and stymied? The right to informed democracy in Scotland

20th May 20193 years ago SLR 4 min read 914 Views

Carole Ewart says it didn’t take an FoI request to work out all is not well in the new, open

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Vladimir McTavish’s A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS

20th May 201920th May 20193 years ago SLR 3 min read 620 Views

In 1999, many people were sceptical about the effect the new Parliament would have on the everyday life of ordinary

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Claim of rights repudiated

12th November 201819th November 20184 years ago SLR 4 min read 784 Views

Bob Thomson argues Scottish Labour’s leader has ditched its policy of the Scottish people having the right to decide their

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Do we need a Scottish Fair Wages Resolution?

24th September 201826th September 20184 years ago SLR 4 min read 671 Views

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

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