Konrad Rekas ask those who want to be more than counted to stand up now. What do we need political parties for in Scotland? For everyday management or for just one issue, i.e., independence. If independence is won, then what? And, which is better: technocratic parties that stifle debate or ideological formations with a programme, […]
Many readers of Scottish Left Review will likely know the Rock Against Racism (RAR) movement intimately— that political and cultural phenomenon played no small part in the movement to defeat the National Front Nazis. We are the Glasgow branch of Love Music Hate Racism. We stand firmly in the tradition of RAR. We organise gigs, […]
Vince Mills assesses the Brexit deal and warns of imminent dangers. After what seemed like interminable debate and disagreement, on 30 December 2020, MPs voted 521:73 for the EU (Future Relationship) Bill based on the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA). There is a fairly simple, but accurate way of describing the agreement: the Tories […]
Dan La Botz says Biden’s victory is a positive development but Trumpism remains a force and Biden is no progressive. Democrat Joe Biden defeated Republican Donald Trump by a popular vote of 81.2m to 74.2m, winning the Electoral College vote by 306 to 232, leading to dancing in the streets in some parts of the […]
Maggie Chetty recalls the life of Skinnider and the work to keep her memory alive. From the great political ferment of the first two decades of the twentieth century emerged a raft of revolutionaries across Europe. Within that ferment were the seeds of revolution in Scotland, Ireland, Russia, Germany and a catastrophic World War. The […]
Chris Sutherland unravels the class contours of privilege and power pervading a tiny town in Fife. The 2018 Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide, listing the worst performing universities for equality and social diversity, put St Andrews (StA) at 131 out of 132 universities, with Oxford and Cambridge competing for the bottom place. Writing […]
From her kitchen and computer, Annie Morgan thinks through the implications of mining and money for food and fairness As I cooked a bit tottie and chard from our community garden, I reflected on the refrain ‘Feed the World’. We recall our consciences being pricked some 35 years ago by Bob Geldof and an awareness […]
Derek McPherson tells a tale of corporate greed against the hoi polloi. British Gas (BG) is bound to comply with Schedule 5 of the Gas Act 1995, which constitutes an agreement between it and the then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. This agreement commits BG to treat ‘propane estate’ customers, that is, gas […]
On the occasion of the beginning of the 50th anniversary in 2021 of the UCS work-in, we reprint a book review by Gordon Morgan from Scottish Left Review (no 67, Nov/Dec 2011). Betteridge, D. (ed.) A Rose Loupt Oot – Poetry and Song Celebrating the UCS Work-in, Smokestack Books, 2011 978-0956417503, £8.95. Oor faithers fought […]
Detroit (2017), director, Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter, Mark Boal Reviewed by Jackie Bergson. The first female to win an Oscar for best director with The Hurt Locker (2010), Kathryn Bigelow, has made a powerful mark on the moviemaking map. Tense, heroic tones underpinned that six-Oscar-winning thriller about American IED (improvised explosive device) detection crews working […]