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).
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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 […]
Opportunity Knocks
Unions in Scotland have a chance to make sure the change in Westminster shifts attitudes in Holyrood, writes UNISON Scottish Secretary Lilian Macer. Where does the recent General Election result leave trade unions? How can we best use these results to benefit workers? These are the questions that unions consider after every election regardless of […]
Editorial: Taking Control of Technology
Technology is a weapon that enables a tightly ordered system of control. Inverting it depends on struggle in which technology can be an aid but never an agent.
A Just Transition Means Resisting AI
There can be no just transition without challenging the AI apparatus that is accelerating the social and environmental crisis, writes Dan McQuillan.
Large Language Steam Engines
Kate McCurdy explores how LLMs do and don’t threaten workers in the here and now.
Technological Change and the Scottish Economy
Technologies are reshaping economic activity, as they always have done. Stephen Boyd offers five approaches the Scottish Government should take towards technological change.