Out Now: Pride and Struggle
Issue 135, Pride and Struggle, is now available to download and to read online. The Scottish Left Review depends on our
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Fringe Review: The Van Paemel Family
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cyriel Buysee’s 1903 Flemish classic The Van Paemel Family is a compelling story of class struggle. It is lovingly portrayed
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Fringe Review: A Portrait of Ludmilla as Nina Simone
⭐⭐⭐ A mixture of spoken word, storytelling and jazz/soul, A Portrait of Ludmilla as Nina Simone is an uplifting but candid
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Fringe Review: The Collie’s Shed
In The Collie’s Shed, a multi-generation cast of actors portray the past and present lives of four men whose lives were
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Editorial: The Power of Pride
Salvador Allende’s inaugural speech as the President of Chile pulsed with pride, not in his own success, but in the achievement of the parties and movements of the Chilean Left. Young and old, women and men, urban and rural had acted in concert to bring socialism to power.
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Black Pupils in White Eyes
Any hope of providing an equitable future for young people of colour in Scotland depends on understanding the education system’s capitalist genesis and racist design, writes Rohit Rao.
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Scottish Colleges in Crisis
The neglect of our colleges sends a clear message to working class students. That is why they are joining the fight for the future of further education, writes Sher Khalid-Ali.
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“Illegal” First, Children Second
The UK Government’s ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ will make a wretched situation for asylum-seeking children far worse, writes Francesca Sella.
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The Rebuilding Can Begin
Cradle Community, Brick by Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons (Hajar Press, 2023 (2nd edition)). Reviewed by Beth Ansell.
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Tensions in the Scot Squad
Sorley Complain finds something sinister behind the cheery faces of BBC Scotland’s policing comedy.
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Not Only Ferries Run Aground
Scotland’s inability to manage infrastructure requires us to move beyond blame games and towards structural solutions, write Peter McColl and Gilbert Ramsay.
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When Pride Fails Us
A Fossil Free Pride organiser explores the implications of LGBTQ+ Prides in Scotland being sponsored by companies deeply implicated in the climate crisis.
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Everyday Acts of Love
Queer Footprints – A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History (Pluto Press, 2023) is a combination of 200 interviews, secondary research, oral herstory* and many stories derived through activism. Its author Dan Glass shares what he realised through its creation.
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Respectable Revolutionaries
Jen Bell considers the central lesson of Weimer Germany’s queer scene: we have nothing to gain from the old order, so let us lead you into the new world.
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A Government We Called Our Own
Fifty years on from the coup in Chile, Oscar Mendoza reflects on the lasting legacy of Allende’s government.
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From Chile to the Ends of the Earth
The culture of the Chilean movement and government that was cut down in 1973 still lives in Scotland and across the world, writes Chris Dolan.
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Prayer to a Worker
This song earned Victor Jara the first prize at the 1969 festival of the New Chilean Song movement. This arrangement is the one used by the Communist Choir in Edinburgh. Appears in English and Chilean.
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Restless Skye
The Chariot, the Flag and the Empty, Empty Houses by Daniel Cullen. Reviewed by Catherine MacPhee.
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