Alf Baird surveys the various energy options for greening sea transport, whether for passenger or goods As with all transport modes, the global maritime sector is required to reduce harmful emissions and rapidly move towards zero-emissions. This presents numerous challenges for shipowners, charterers and financiers in coming up with optimal solutions which are practical and […]
Patrick Phillips looks at a new way of transcending our system of endless economic exchange ‘There appears to be a sort of war of giants and gods going on amongst them; they are fighting with one another about ‘being’…’ (an ancient Greek teacher, cited in Heidegger and the Death of God by Duane Armitage (2017)) […]
We are pleased to published further poems by David McKinstry and David Bleiman. Cult of Career By David McKinstry Have we paid too dear For the cult of career? Are opportunities past For new friends and Wider horizons to caste? Are we too worn To change our way? Must we dole out Our dull day? […]
Nadia Lucchesi is an artist, illustrator and printmaker and has delivered bright and bold covers for Scottish Left Review. After many years, she has decided to hang up her ‘easel’, so this is a good opportunity to publicly thank Nadia for her work and to speak to her about her work. Her website https://www.nadialucchesi.co.uk/ provides […]
Scottish Left Review interviews Neil Findlay about a new project to bring capacity building skills to progressive community campaigners Neil Findlay left the Scottish Parliament in May 2021 after 10 years of being a Lothian list Labour MSP. With two others, he has now set up the social enterprise called Unity Consulting (https://www.unityconsulting.scot/). Neil was […]
Kenny MacAskill issues a rallying cry for those dispirited and disillusioned with the submissive and subservient SNP The local elections this May will be challenging for Alba but are equally a great opportunity for a still fledgling party. The mainstream media blackout imposed in May will likely continue but the party is growing in membership […]
Colin Kirkwood argues against the replicating of centralised systems of government under independence In the 1960s, the Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, developed a concept he called ‘limit situations’, which he believed can evoke ‘limit acts’. Limit situations are experienced initially as blocks in people’s lived reality and which seem insurmountable like walls. But as their […]
Peter McColl looks back on the creation of the right’s dominance in the Irish republic in order to explain why independence did not mean revolution When, on the 24 April, Easter Sunday 1916 on Sackville Street, Dublin, a group of rebels seized the General Post Office, proclaiming an Irish Republic, one of the most prominent […]
Andrew Anderson looks at the lessons which must be learned from the case of Shetland for the rest of Scotland Shetland College was privatised on 1 August 2021. This was the first time in Scottish history a Further Education (FE) college has been transferred from public ownership and control into a private company limited by […]
Dougie Harrison recalls why he joined the Communist Party in 1968 and and resigned from it in 1990 Few reading this article who are under the age of about sixty will have any first-hand understanding of how important the Communist Party of Great Britain remained in Scottish life for many years, and not just in […]