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14th August 202314th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 1 min read

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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14th August 202314th August 20232 months ago SLR 1 min read

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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14th August 202314th August 20232 months ago SLR 2 min read

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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14th August 202314th August 20232 months ago SLR 1 min read

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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2nd August 20235th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read

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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2nd August 20235th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read

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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2nd August 20235th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 3 min read

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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2nd August 20235th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read

“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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2nd August 20235th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read

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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2nd August 20235th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 6 min read

Tensions in the Scot Squad

Sorley Complain finds something sinister behind the cheery faces of BBC Scotland’s policing comedy.

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2nd August 20235th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 11 min read

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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2nd August 20235th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read

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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2nd August 20235th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 6 min read

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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2nd August 20235th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 8 min read

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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2nd August 20235th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 9 min read

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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2nd August 20235th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 2 min read

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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2nd August 20235th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 3 min read

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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2nd August 20235th August 20232 months ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read

Restless Skye

The Chariot, the Flag and the Empty, Empty Houses by Daniel Cullen. Reviewed by Catherine MacPhee.

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