Gregor Gall analyses a recent report by the Fair Work Convention and finds it fatally flawed. The ‘Fair Work Framework’ (FWF) has been the Scottish Government’s flagship programme on employment issues since 2016. It sets out to make Scotland a ‘fair work’ nation by 2025. With the forthcoming Scottish Parliament elections, this next parliament will […]
Stuart Graham lays out what union activists in Glasgow are organising for in the run-up to COP26. Glasgow Trades Union Council (GTUC) attended the STUC Trades Councils conference at the end of January. We requested a session was added to deal with the COP26 conference in Glasgow in November and the required level of mobilisation […]
Malcolm Harvey assesses the likely outcome that we shall wake up to on 7 May 2021. Elections happen frequently in democracies; in multi-level polities, even more frequently. Years without elections seem unusual – and even when they occur, as in 2020, regular polling keeps the idea in our heads that an election is just around […]
Neil Findlay lays out the case for a third option in any future referendum. Tony Benn famously set out five questions of democracy and urged all of us to ask them of those in power: What power have you got; where did you get it from; in whose interests do you use it; to whom […]
A Private War (2018), director: Matthew Heineman, screenwriters: Arash Amel and Marie Brenner Reviewed by Jackie Bergson Bridging the period from when war correspondent, Marie Colvin, reported from within Sri Lanka in 2001 until the moment when she was killed in 2012, A Private War begins and ends with real footage from the place where […]
Judy Cox, Rebellious Daughters of History, 2021, Redwords, 9781912926947, £10, pp128 Reviewed by Lorna McKinnon Where can we look to see the seedlings of the ideas we hold today in terms of the struggle for women’s liberation, for the liberation of all, for the abolition of slavery, and for an end to the atrocities of […]
‘Visionaries’ by David McKinstry, Glasgow As winter turned to spring And Churchill’s bombast stilled, The nation turned to quiet Clem Voting for a rebuild. Up went the homes Finally for heroes to fit, Down went the miners Into nationalised pit. Nye valued good health Stuffed doctors’ mouths with gold, As a price worth paying For […]
In Britain, it is now a year since the Coronavirus pandemic reached our shores. And to mark the first anniversary of lockdown, we are having another lockdown. I would be tempted to say it’s like Groundhog Day, but I said that yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that. So, in case you […]
As we begin 2021, 2020 should be remembered as the year in which politics trumped economics twice – on Brexit and Covid-19. The former was heavily opposed – especially in its harder forms – by the majority of businesses in Britain. The latter saw massive state intervention of the scale that could only have been […]
The founder of Scottish Left Review, Jimmy Reid, played a leading role in the one of the most successful campaigns of the post-war period. Starting in June 1971 and concluding in October 1972, the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders’ work-in humbled the Heath Conservative government. It was a new industrial tactic without precedence. In this issue and […]