Editorial: Is Devolution Going to Seed?
This Scottish Left Review addresses how a quarter-century of devolution has dampened the power of those far removed from Scotland’s governing classes.
Issue 142
One Solution, Devolution?
Oct – Nov 2024
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The Ghosts of the 2014 Games
With the Commonwealth Games set to return to Glasgow, Dylan Brewerton-Harper returns to some of the communities that were condemned last time it came to town.
An Agenda for Radical Land Reform
Now that land redistribution has stalled, Olivia Oldham-Dorrington looks at the kinds of reform that can happen when social movements and cross-class coalitions build the power to win it.
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The Black Hole of Miscalculation
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We Are Everywhere
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Why Harris Can’t Give Netenyahu the Boot
Have Palestinians anything to look forward to in the event of Kamala Harris winning the White House? Phil Chetwynd looks at the ties that bind the US and Israel in this particular ‘axis of evil'.
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