Out the comfort zone
Greens find it too easy to resort to opposition to policies which are harmful to the environment, argues Peter McColl. If they are going to make a breakthrough they are going to have to sell a more radical agenda.
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Nowhere to go?
Gordon McKay argues that trade unions have no option but to stick with Labour
Splits that weaken
There is a very real possibility that any campaign against the cuts in Scotland will be undermined by a divided civic sector. New leadership is needed, argues Isobel Lindsay
Are bills of rights wrong?
Carole Ewart discusses the establishment of a human rights consortium in Scotland - and what that means in the context of a UK government hostile to the Human Rights Act
Continent drifting
Henry McCubbin looks at the implications for Europe of the Greek crisis - and what it means for a vision of a progressive European Union
Reviews
Broonland Christopher Harvie (Verso 2010), ISBN-13: 978-1844674398, 224 pp., £8.99 Fiddled statistics on employment and public debt, catastrophic distance-learning projects, ditto for computerisation schemes, raids on pensions funds, selling off gold cheap, mud-wrestling with Tony Blair, yet bankrolling his delusions. Taxes that are baffling but real, tax credits that are baffling but illusory. Programmes cutting […]
Web review
Our theme this edition is a comment on the outcome of the General Election – but what do the parties think of their own positions in this regard? Their own web sites give us an insight to their self opinions. Firstly the Lib Dems in Scotland appear to be very pleased at making the world […]
Kick Up The Tabloids
ELECTION PROBE AS VOTE FOR LIB DEMS TURNS OUT NOT TO BE WASTED AS PROMISED
Comment
Where to begin? This issue of the Scottish Left Review goes to print in a Britain which has no government - the people have indeed spoken. Unfortunately, this state of affairs is unlikely to last.
City slickers
Gordon Morgan introduces this issue by taking a look at the political changes that might help ensure all our cities are properly governed