Editorial
Non-death of neo-liberalism and ‘new’ Labour returns This is an editorial of two parts. The first parts deals with the
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Calling out the climate emergency: creating concrete outcomes at COP26
Mary Church and Niamh McNulty lay out what the conference needs to do and what will be done in Glasgow
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Freeports or greenports: Guantanamo Bays of neo-liberalism or marrying economic and environmental concerns?
Peter Henderson surveys the dangers of freeports and wonders whether the SNP’s ‘greenports’ policy can square the circle. The latest
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Flamingo Land’s Lomond Banks: just fun and frolics for the economy or frivolous fallacy for the environment?
Annie Morgan takes the Scottish Government to task for not sinking the proposal to profit from environmental destruction. Scottish Enterprise,
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End the overcharging for Scottish renewable energy
Gordon Morgan exposes the crazy circumstances in which green energy is unnecessarily made more expensive. Far from encouraging renewable energy
Read moreWhat is the significance of Welsh Labour’s election success?
Assessing and explaining Labour’s new high tide in Wales, Darren Williams points out the continuing challenges. Welsh Labour won an
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From Glasgow Girls to Kenmure Street – 16 years on, the fight for humane immigration continues
Roza Salih calls for rebellion against Westminster’s inhumanity and the creation of a Scottish system. It has been 16 years
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Human dignity and honour: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto
Henry Maitles recalls the armed battle to save the last of Warsaw’s Jewry against the Nazis. In May 1943, one
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After George Square’s dangerous disorder: Rangers supporters and anti-Catholicism in Scotland
Pat Kelly analyses the roots of the bigotry and sets out what now must be done to rid us of
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Scotland’s drug problem: tackling the symptoms never tackles the causes
Calum Rosie argues that only deep-seated, radical action can address this scourge in our society. It has recently been announced
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To jab or not to jab: skewed Covid vaccination priorities and problems
Andrew Watterson asks who judged who to jab and why in Scotland, and with what effect. Vaccination policies to protect
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Growing jaggier shoots from the briar’s roots: The UCS work-in at 50 and beyond
David Betteridge recalls how men and women were made on the Clyde into fighting fortresses. Where did the statesmen and
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The brutality of empire: The ethnic cleansing of the British periphery
Adam Charlton recalls a genocidal episode of internal colonialism from Britain’s past. When we think of the British Empire, we
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A case to leave NATO and for Scottish neutrality
Kailash Kutwaroo says independence opens up progressive policy positions for Scotland on the world stage. Should an independent Scotland leave
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The social and national are one: Labour and Scottish independence
Chris Sutherland makes an impassioned plea to develop a radical agenda for independence. On the eve of the 1916 Easter
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Amazon, Uber and union recognition ballots
Nigel Flanagan calls for a radical shake-up in how unions mobilise to gain collective bargaining rights from employers. Whilst union
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Film Review
Nadine Labaki, director, Capernaum (2018) Reviewed by Jackie Bergson Capernaum is a devastatingly captivating drama which overflows with ingenuity and
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Poetry Review
David Bleiman, This Kilt of Many Colours, Dempsey and Windle, 2021, 9781913329457, £8.00, pp50. Reviewed by David McKinstry This Kilt
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Book review
Fotheringham, B., Sherry, D. and Bryce, C. (eds.) Breaking up the British State: Scotland, Independence & Socialism (Bookmarks, 2021, 436pp,
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Book Review
Berkowitz, E. Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West from the Ancients to Fake News, Westbourne Press,
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
The problem with having to file copy over a week in advance of publication day means that sometimes what I
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Editorial: Old wine in old bottles?
Though Charles Dickens did not say ‘It was not the best of times. It was not quite the worst of
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Was it another unique election? Only if you ignore the ‘big picture’ issues
Looking behind the election facts and figures, James Mitchell reveals the continuing, underlying dynamics of politics in Scotland. There is
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A different radical Scotland: limits of Scottish nationalism and social democracy
Gerry Hassan sees the 2021 election in a longer lens to assess the current state of Scottish democracy and point
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Lots of labouring still be done for Scottish Labour
Carol Mochan says there’s a mountain of political leg work needed but that it can be done. Scotland’s status as
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How the left won the Scottish Green Party and how that will change Scottish politics
Maggie Chapman looks back on not just a quantitative but also qualitative shift for the Scottish Greens. The Holyrood 2021
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