The trade unions founded the Labour Party – are they now overseeing its destruction?One hundred years ago in 1900 the Labour Representative Committee was formed. The TUC played a major part before and after this to give birth to what is now the Labour Party. lts purpose was in the name – to represent labour- […]
Having watched the media’s response to the recent Notting Hill Carnival it amazes me how quickly sections of the media and the Police have moved to claim that in the ‘Post Macpherson’ society things have gone too far. Police Officers up and down the country claim they are demoralised and unable to do their job. […]
We are – as the Sunday papers never seem to tire of reminding us – in a post- industrial age. Strikes and demonstrations are apparently old hat – as passe as last night’s limp polenta-and-endive salad at granita’s. How, then, are we to develop new forms of protest to get our point across? Its just […]
The Scottish Left Review will be a bi-monthly website magazine that will seek to provide a focal point of thought and discussion for the Scottish Left. It will be non-party but will aim to provide a forum for those on the Left of all parties and none. Such a forum is urgently required at a […]