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.
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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.
Land Resistance: The Tactics of Tomorrow
140 years after the Highland Land League drew up a list of its demands in Dingwall, the land justice movement is developing new strategies, writes Tara Wight.
The Strike that Shook the Earth
Vijoo Krishnan, General Secretary of India’s 15-million strong Kisan Sabha, speaks to Cailean Gallagher about the biggest farmers’ strike in history and the issue-based unity that underpins the movement.
A Nurse of the International Brigades
Liam Turbett shares the story of Chrissie Wallace, the only Scottish woman who did not make it home from the Spanish Civil War.
The Clash of Rhetoric
Chik Collins reviews Languages of Class Struggle: Communication and Mass Mobilisation in Britain and Ireland, 1842-1972 by John Foster (Praxis Press, 2024).
The Black Hole of Miscalculation
Rachel Reeves' 'black hole' narrative echoes the Treasury shock doctrine that tipped Jim Callaghan's government into chaos, finds Liam Payne.
We Are Everywhere
Derek Newton reivews Becoming Pro-Palestinian: Testimonies from the Global Solidarity Movement, edited by Rosemary Sayigh (I. B. Taurus, 2024).
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'.
Sounding the Alarm: the Scottish Far-Right
History doesn’t mechanically repeat itself, but today parts of the West are closer to fascism than at any time since the 1930s. A set of crises are combining to destabilise domestic political systems across the world. As the political centre-ground recedes, there has been polarisation to the right and left, but the main beneficiary is […]