In Truss, they trusted
After BoJo’s long but often AWOL goodbye since resigning on 7 July 2022, you still need to pinch yourself to
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Breaking, breaking – this just in: Holyrood can change things!
Tracey Dalling sets out what some creative thinking could achieve for raising revenue for public services Faced with demands for
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A taxing matter: Sources of and dilemmas about new revenue streams for public services in Scotland
Mike Danson examines the constraints and options as we face a coming winter of discontent Few are against workers and
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Creating a gender equal economy in Scotland – what’s needed
Sara Cowan says women suffer disproportionately from Covid, climate change and the cost-of-living crisis The Covid-19 crisis is not over
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Are our councils working?
Dave Watson examines a recent investigation and reprises ideas for how to improve the situation This summer, The Ferret, in
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Profiting from care – Why Scotland cannot afford privatised social care
Francis Stuart details the case for public, not-for-profit care following the publication of the STUC’s ground-breaking report Scotland’s large private
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Not so much a national service – more like a massive attack
Stephen Low argues the National Care Service will be a case of centralised managerialism gone mad The Scottish Government has
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The Starmer selection box: supine without spine, subterfuge, star-chambers and sycophancy
Vince Mills dissects the disaster that is the Starmer leadership of Labour The Starmer ‘phenomenon’ is not one that history
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The call must go out: Organise against new anti-strike threats
Daniel Randall details what Truss and the Tories have in store for unions and workers’ rights Then prospective PM, Liz
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Democracy without freedom of information is no democracy at all
Katy Clark explains why she has laid a badly needed Bill before the Scottish Parliament This month, I plan to
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The other war in Asia-Europe that is never mentioned: Turkey’s genocide against the Kurds
Goran Zangana looks behind the media blackout to explain what is going on and what needs to happen Abass was
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Community pharmacists supporting the supply of the required medicines to Ukrainian hospitals
Maurice Hickey explains the initiative to provide concrete solidarity in this time of war The European Association of Employed Community
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Germany as a new political powder keg – can the left rise to the challenge?
Christine Buchholz looks at the crisis enveloping all political parties as the winds of change blow through Though Germany has
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The European radical left – a busman’s holiday around all the airts and pairts shows cooperation and coalition is the favoured strategy
Barbara Steiner gives an overview of the strength of left parties in Europe, revealing not everything is bad Let’s begin
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Over 6,750 migrant worker deaths – it’s no beautiful game when played like this
John Dennis explains the STUC’s call for action in Scotland against the needless deaths of migrant workers building the World
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Climate Camp Scotland and the struggle for climate justice
Benji Brown reports on the recent Aberdeen Climate Camp and where the campaign goes from here After a summer filled
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Film Review
Ben Lawrence, director, Ithaka (2022) Reviewed by Jackie Bergson At its simplest, Ithaka tells the story of a father, John
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Book Review
L. Douds, J. Harris and P. Whitewood (eds.) The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation 1917-41, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
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Book Review
Ben Tarnoff Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future, Verso, 2022, pp272, £8.99 Reviewed by John Wood
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Book Review
Neil Davidson, James Foley, and Ben Wray Scotland After Britain: The Two Souls of Scottish Independence, Verso, 2022, £12.99 pb Reviewed by
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Book Review
Jeff Sparrow Crimes against Nature – Capitalism and Global Heating, Scribe, 2021, pp240, £16.99 Reviewed by Charlotte Ahmed Jeff Sparrow
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Editor’s Note
Matthew Crighton reviewed the Jimmy Reid Foundation’s edited collection called A New Scotland: Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
By the time this column goes to press, the UK will have a new Prime Minister. Whoever that person may
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