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13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 10 min read 357 Views

Asking an awkward question and needing an honest answer: What’s left of the left? The May 2022 local elections were

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Whither the Scottish left?

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 9 min read 304 Views

George Kerevan surveys the scene, suggesting the SNP’s dominance results from a lack of choices. How often have you heard

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Down but not out and still around to keep on fighting

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read 421 Views

Joe Cullinane explains why Labour lost but is proud of its achievements in North Ayrshire. For five and half a

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National utopias and local myopias – local government is the poor relation of Holyrood!

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read 235 Views

Gordon Munro looks back on missed opportunities to advance local democracy and delivery. The left in Scotland has been a

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It’s no game: Playing the cost-of-living fightback both home and away

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 227 Views

Having taken the fightback to London, Roz Foyer says we’ve also building it in our workplaces and communities. We’re now

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To demand better, we must ourselves be better

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read 149 Views

Kate Ramsden casts her eye over the health of the union movement as it gears up for an almighty battle.

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#Metoo must also mean men speaking up and fighting back against sexual harassment of women

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 6 min read 203 Views

Here we reprint the speech of Rab Noakes from the Musicians’ Union moving Motion 64 at the 2022 STUC congress

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Scottish musician hits a high note for equality at union awards

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 2 min read 158 Views

Scots folk singer and union activist, Iona Fyfe, wins the STUC Equality Award. One of Scotland’s leading folk singers has

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For days and days, a four-day week has been our favoured fix for work-life balance 

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 101 Views

Ruby Gibson explains the evidence-based case for the shorter working week in the Scottish civil service. Working time can and

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Dear Boris and Nicola: This really is the best way to ‘Build Back Better’

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read 90 Views

Alex Rowley shows how the Scottish Parliament can together tackle climate change and fuel poverty. I have introduced a consultation

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Power to the people right now

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read 230 Views

Stuart Fairweather recounts the new initiatives to connect different types of poverty into one campaign. Recent Scottish Left Review editorials

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The moral corruption of nuclear blackmail

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 83 Views

Peter Lomas surveys the contours of an increasingly dangerous and unstable Europe. Someone once said that nuclear weapons make the

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Working-class communist leader elected rector of an ancient Scots university

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 3 min read 91 Views

Then University of Glasgow student, Dougie Harrison, recall’s Reid’s election fifty-one years ago. In summer 1971, with every active communist

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A Scottish independent economy in ‘the new normal’

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 8 min read 366 Views

Raphael De Santos looks at the implications of high inflation, rising interest rates and a contracting economy for Scotland after

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If people make Glasgow, here’s kind greetings from Kenmure Street

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 7 min read 108 Views

We reprint the speech Tabassum Niamat gave to open the first Festival of Resistance. Good afternoon, everyone. I hope you

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The Kenmure Street site of resistance against racism

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read 87 Views

Fatima Uygun and Tabassum Niamat reflect on how a community stood up to be counted. Kenmure Street in Pollokshields on

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Monarchist v Republicans: Off with their heads as we keep ours

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read 88 Views

Graham Smith takes comfort from the continuing long-term decline of the monarchy in Britain. Observers from overseas might be forgiven

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Carillion’s collapse and the accountancy oligopoly

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 12 min read 120 Views

John Barker exposes those that are effectively judge and jurors in their own malfeasance. Earlier this year there were reports

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Pleasing political poems aplenty

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 6 min read 95 Views

Poems from Mathew Knights and Dr David McKinstry. Based in Arbroath, Matthew Knights is a writer and creative writing tutor

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Film Review

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 84 Views

Jonas Poher Rasmussen, director, Flee (2021) Reviewed by Jackie Bergson True stories which are told in first person throughout a

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Book Review

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 10 min read 85 Views

Javier Blas and Jack Farchy, The World For Sale: Money, Power And The Traders Who Barter The Earth’s Resources, Random

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Book Review

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 171 Views

Mike Phipps, Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow, OR Books, 2022, 9781682193693, £13, pp230 Reviewed by Dexter Govan. When the storm

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Book Review

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 84 Views

Arnold Weinstein. The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing, Princeton University Press, £14, ‎9780691177304, pp352 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan. The

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Book Review

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 2 min read 79 Views

Patrick O’Hare Rubbish Belongs to the Poor: Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons, Pluto Press, 2022, 9780745341408, pp240, £19.99 Reviewed

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Book Review

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read 91 Views

Gregor Gall (ed.) A New Scotland: Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society, Pluto, £14.99, 9780745345062, pp352 Reviewed by Matthew

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Vladimir McTavish – A Kick Up The Tabloids

13th July 202213th July 20224 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 87 Views

When issued with a fixed penalty by the Metropolitan Police for breaking Covid rules, Boris Johnson said he was not

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