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Editorial: How Many Struggles Make a Movement?

Can a people dominated by landowners and developers be stirred to resistance? How do little struggles mobilise and build momentum in the interest of the masses as a whole? 

The Greens are Back on Better Ground

The SNP’s decision to scrap the Bute House Agreement stung, but the Greens will bounce back once they find their real friends, writes Jen Bell.

Big Oil in Green Clothing

The same interests that bulldozed Old Torry’s harbour are coming for Torry’s thriving park. Scott Herret is involved in the struggle to save it.

A New Strategy for the North of Scotland

It’s time for the Left beyond the central belt to shift from a national to a regional strategy, writes Neil Mackay.

Will the Scottish Left Step up for Land Justice?

Struggles in Colombia and across the world can help guide us to build a land justice movement in Scotland, write Heather Urquhart and Tara Wight.

A Love Letter to Voltaire & Rousseau

Rory MacNeish finds out how Otago Lane’s independent bookshop benefits the biodiversity of Glasgow’s West End.

Always Different, Always the Same

If we think of our towns differently, writes James Barrowman, we can think of our world differently too.

Acid and Phlegm: Ingredients of a Future North

Beth Ansell reviews The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands by Alex Niven (Bloomsbury, 2023).

Can Renters Organise Beyond the Block?

Esmond Sage reviews Isaac Rose’s The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis (Repeater, 2024)

Gorbachev’s Porridge

Sanny Doolan contributed more than most to the tremendous unity of Ayrshire's striking miners. His son, John Doolan, speaks to Cailean Gallagher.

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