Editorial
COP26 ≠ much cop On the face of it, there may not seem to be a much of a theme
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For a ‘People’s Recovery’ and a socially and environmentally just Scotland
Roz Foyer, STUC general secretary, gave the eight Jimmy Reid Foundation lecture on Thursday 7 October 2021 in Glasgow. Here
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Back to the workplace to rebuild working-class power
Helen McFarlane welcomes the election of the new UNITE leader and looks forward better times I am delighted Sharon Graham
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Against de-politicisation: For working-class environmentalism
Ewan Kerr critiques current offerings and argues for a socialist strategy to prevent planetary collapse COP26 has now arrived in
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Climate justice and climate jobs: one is necessary for the other
Below is an excerpt of a speech by Annie Morgan, speaking to the Climate Justice rally during COP26 This decade
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Reid Foundation paper launch ‘Beyond Just Transition’.
Launch of Reid Foundation paper, ‘Beyond Just Transition’, 7pm, Thurs 2 December 2021 After the COP26 circus has left town,
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Bringing working class politics to COP26
Colin Fox looks at some practical steps socialists in Scotland can take to counter the climate emergency ‘The COP26 summit
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German federal election 2021: votes lost and re-found
Victor Grossman looks beyond Merkel’s party’s defeat to see how the left still lost out When the German election result
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Ireland: from 1921 to 2021 and with implications for independence in Scotland
On the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the Irish republic, Bill Bonnar asks questions about Scotland’s future
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Fair Work Scotland: Scotrail or Scotfail?
Gregor Gall says taking Scotrail into public ownership will test the SNP’s left credentials Industrial relations at Scotrail have been
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Could Scotland become the new Norway?
Though Raphael De Santos argues that while there’s no way to be a new Norway, there is still much scope
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Gender violence: Groundhog Day of ‘we’ve been here before’ again and again
Marsha Scott says strategic, resourced action tackling causes and symptoms is the only way forward Scottish Women’s Aid (SWA) has
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A world made less safe: Creating AUKUS
Binoy Kampmark looks behind the stramash over selling nuclear subs to see a new cold war developing The formation on
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Refugees and asylum: Unfortunately, there never was a ‘golden age’
Henry Maitles argues that Priti Patel’s ‘hostile environment’ is lamentably nothing new Current debates on refugees and attempts by Western
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Care + COVID = crisis continues
Wilma Brown reports on her experience of an overstretched and under-resourced NHS in Scotland We know staff in the NHS
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National Care Service consultation: heading in the wrong direction on multiple fronts
Dave Watson identifies the dangerous attack on democracy and inadequate resourcing found in the Scottish Government’s proposals The Scottish Government
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Film Review
Shaka King (director) and Will Berson, Shaka King, Kenny Lucas and Keith Lucas (writers), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
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Book Review
Leeanne Elizabeth Clark, My Journey Through Life: The Real Me, 2021, self-published, 9781913632069 Reviewed by Carole Ewart This autobiography is
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Book Review
Colin Turbett The Anglo-Soviet Alliance: Comrades and Allies during WW2, 2021, Pen & Sword Military, pp216, 1526776588 Reviewed by Michael
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Book Review
Eve Livingston Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions, 2021, Pluto, pp160, 0745341624 Reviewed by John Wood For some, there
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Book Review
Jane Holgate Arise: Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence, 2021, Pluto, pp272, 074534402X Reviewed by Michael MacNeil Holgate charts the historical
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Book Review
James McEnaney Class Rules: The truth about Scottish schools, 2021, Luath, pp240, 1910022608 Reviewed by David Watt Class Rules is
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Book Review
Rob Gibson Reclaiming our Land, 2020, self-published, pp324, 9781527281813 Reviewed by Magnus Davidson This is a book about land reform,
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Book Review
Neil Findlay (ed.) If You Don’t Run, They Can’t Chase You: Stories from the frontline of the fight for social
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
Who knows what the fight the UK will have started in Europe by the time this appears in print. After
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