Editorial: From clap to slap
So, Boris’s near death experience this spring did not bring about any noticeable change of heart in his politics. Those
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Failing the test: the calamity of COVID-19 testing in Scotland
Lilian Macer excoriates the Scottish Government’s approach as inadequate to deal with pandemic we are facing. The World Health Organisation
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Keep your 2m distance during the pandemic
Andrew Watterson, Rory O’Neill, Janet Newsham and Hilda Palmer critique the carelessness and incompetence of government policy and practice The
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Pandemic panic of the streets of Dundee, Dunfermline and Dumbarton from cruel continuing cuts
Kate Ramsden argues we must take political advantage of the pandemic to rebuild our local public services Covid-19 has highlighted
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Don’t throw our members under the bus
Pat Rafferty looks at the case of ADL to argue that only government action can secure green jobs and help
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Building back better in the ‘Dear Green Place’ with free buses and trains
Ellie Harrison makes the case for getting Glasgow to go green and free in its transport system September 2020 sees
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How green is the EU recovery plan?
Molly Scott-Cato assesses the pros and cons of efforts in Europe to make a green just transition The mantra ‘Build
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Uniting and fighting – how unemployed workers can be collectively organised
Dave Sherry recounts previous examples of campaigns to mobilise the unemployed as part of a wider labour movement struggle The
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Racism and anti-racism in the age of Black Lives Matter
Talat Ahmed surveys the progress made in organising the fight against racial injustice ‘The current anti-racism protests are unprecedented in
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The monetisation of fossil again?
Annie Morgan examines the issues behind carbon capture, storage and usage bioenergy carbon capture and storage Though I do not
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Desperately seeking social democracy in Scotland
George Kerevan says a grassroots revolt is needed to make the SNP stand by what it says it is for
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Calling the troops to the field of battle in a longer war
Jim Sillars thinks through the stages and issues in the struggle for independence I start by not apologising for being
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Reflections on democracy, diktat and despotism in the SNP
Kenny MacAskill argues all is not well in the house of the SNP if it is to lay the foundations
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Let the purges begin: Corbyn, alleged anti-Semitism and Labour
Chris Sutherland analyses the lasts contours of the one of the most successful political campaign of recent years Has reporter
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From independence to Corbyn and back again to independence
Stella Rooney explains her changing perspective on her campaigning priorities In 2014, I was inspired to take political action for
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Putting Scottish Labour back on track
Tommy Kane argues Labour can resolve its constitutional carry-on to allow its radical politics to shine through Nicola Sturgeon is
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Direct democracy in the municipality
Abbie Archer makes the case for a radical decentralisation of decision-making to stimulate popular participation Every couple of years, people
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Pole’s eye view: newcomers neglected by Scottish left?
Casting a critical eye over the radical left in Scotland, Konrad Rękas ask why they are not more welcoming to
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Black Lives Matter – pulling down racism is much harder than pulling down statues
Graham Campbell charts the success of recent anti-racism but says there is still a long way to go I have
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Film Review
I Am Not Your Negro (2016), Director: Raoul Peck Reviewed by Jackie Bergson Documentary director, Raoul Peck, strikes a supremely
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Book Review
Lloyd, J. Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence, Polity, 2020, £20, pp211, 1509542663 Reviewed by
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Book Review
Thompson, E. William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary, Merlin Press, 2020, pp642, 978-0-85036-680-8, £25 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan Those who cherish
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Book Review
Musto, M. (ed.) The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations, Cambridge University Press, 2020, £75, pp408, 9781316338902 Reviewed by
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Book Review
Gessen, M. Surviving Autocracy, Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House, 2020, 978059318893, £21.45 In the allegedly free late 1960s, I completed my
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Poems from Lockdown
Culture and creativity during Covid: teaching and learning at home David McKinstry is a teacher – see his biographical details
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH’S A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
Normally, writing the September edition of this column would be a flying-by-the-seat-of-my-pants affair as I would be having to file
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