Why the Gaelic Crisis Matters
Cuts to the Bòrd na Gàidhlig add to the sense of dread in vernacular communities. It has galvanised the grassroots resistance that the whole left should support. By Tòmas MacAilpein.
Cailean Gallagher
The Sound of Resistance
Becky Minio-Paluello reviews Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance by Louis Brehony (AUC, 2023).
The Old Oak: Confronting Resentment
The Old Oak explores the struggle to maintain hope and solidarity in working-class communities. Margaret Petrie reviews Ken Loach’s latest film. The Old Oak (currently showing on Netflix) is the third in a trilogy of films set in the Northeast of England from Director Ken Loach and Scriptwriter Paul Laverty. All three films give voice […]
If Glasgow is a filmset, why don’t we tell our own stories?
The problem is not filmmakers’ motivations but the commercial priorities of the industry and the scarcity of funding to tell Scottish stories, finds Rory MacNeish. The relocation of Alasdair Gray’s novel Poor Things from Glasgow to London in Yorgos Lanthimos’s screen adaptation prompted much griping. “For many, it will be like watching The Lord of […]
Antisemitism in Scotland: whatever happened to the IHRA?
With its legal credibility torn to shreds, the time has come to re-evaluate the Scottish Government's adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, suggests Phil Chetwynd.
How the Right Destroyed Corbyn
Five years ago, on 7th April 2019, the Jewish Labour Movement passed a no-confidence motion on Jeremy Corbyn, adding to charges of anti-semitism that fuelled the Labour right’s anti-Corbyn campaign. Oh Jeremy Corbyn: the Big Lie shows how the allegations destroyed Corbyn’s socialist project, finds Bill Bonnar. Oh, Jeremy Corbyn; the Big Lie did the […]
Anti-Colonial Time in Fady Joudah’s […]
Maura Finkelstein reviews [...] by Fady Joudah (Outspoken Press, 2024).
Editorial: Falkirk No More?
Our changing climate will give rise to new challenges, battles between capital and communities, new ways of living, and new senses of the self that may be individual or collective.
Flood Politics
With government money pouring into local climate change adaptation, Elliot Hurst considers how the left might shape a better flood response.
In with the New
Revising our narratives about ex-mining communities is controversial, but alternative stories can point us towards a new radical democratic politics, writes Amber Ward.