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The March/April issue of Scottish Left Review is our traditional STUC congress edition. In it, we ask a variety of[…]

Feedback on Nicaragua

Scottish Left Review encourages our readers to respond to published articles. Here we print correspondence on an article in the[…]

Let’s have a just transition for public service workers too

Whether by design or default, Lynn Henderson calls for redistribution of the digital dividends Automation, digitalisation and data are the[…]

Equal pay victory – how Weegie women won

Jennifer McCarey and Brian Smith explain the organising approach that produced strength from weakness October 2018 saw Scotland’s and Britain’s[…]

Lessons learned from 2018 – the UCU perspective

Mary Senior outlines the UCU successfully mobilised around pensions We were told that the Trade Union Act 2016 would mean[…]

Whole and holistic organising in the classroom

David Belsey outlines how the EIS is approaching the issue The EIS has had an active couple of years with[…]

Maintaining>defending>developing – more than firefighting from the FBU

Denise Christie explains the strategic approach to building from the workplace up 2018 saw the FBU celebrate 100 years of[…]

Music across borders and through barriers – songs and stories from the Musicians’ Union

Caroline Sewell explains the band didn’t just play on but reached out to new members with new messages The past[…]

Fight>Win>Fight>Repeat when the shit hits the fan

Mick Cash explains how a campaign was won and then had to be re-instated on human waste on the tracks[…]

Building power and winning big

Peter Hunter outlines how UNISON has been pushing ahead on the organising front UNISON has a growing confidence in the[…]

Combining the industrial and political

Matt Kerr recounts the moves the CWU has made to gear up to the challenges the union faces The last[…]

Spycops – the ‘big brother’ state in Scotland

Exposing the extent of undercover policing in Scotland, ‘Andrea’ renews the call for a public inquiry The undercover policing scandal[…]

Black sailors and the battle of George Square

Tony Adams recalls a forgotten chapter of the events around ‘Red Clydeside’ in 1919 The year, 1919, in Britain represents[…]

City Building (Glasgow): inspirational model of low energy construction and direct labour

Linda Clarke and Melahat Sahin-Dikmen show how two aspects of the Just Transition combine European Union (EU) 2020 plans to[…]

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[…]

Venezuela – no blood for oil

Frieda Park looks at how right-wing forces are trying to turn back progress in Venezuela It is no coincidence that[…]

Fighting for a living rent

Neil Gray, Joey Simons and Bechaela Walker summarise the origins, achievements and ambitions of the Living Rent tenants’ union As[…]

Transparency, participation and environmental information in Scotland

Following from our Just Transition edition, Sean Whittaker assesses the right to access information campaigners need Scotland is facing an[…]

Book Review

Kenny MacAskill, Glasgow 1919: The Rise of Red Clydeside, Biteback, pp320, 9781785904547, £20 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan Much has been[…]

VLADIMIR McTAVISH’S A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS

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

Editorial – Bastards of Brexit and the ‘national interest’

Happy New Year to all our subscribers, readers and supporters. And, with the pleasantries now done, let’s get back to[…]

Just Transitioning – marrying environment protection and social justice

Stephen Smellie lays out what is meant by Just Transition and what role unions have to play. The concept of[…]

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[…]

Partnership for progress

Matthew Crighton outlines the Just Transition Partnership between the STUC and Friends of the Earth Setting up a Just Transition[…]

Rebelling against extinction

With no jobs or life on a dead planet, Douglas Rogers explains what Extinction Rebellion is about The science is[…]

Why and how the SNP must stop being ‘the party of oil’

Simon Barrow argues the SNP must more fully commit to the Just Transition Climate change is the all-embracing challenge of[…]