Never Tell Anyone You’re Jewish: My Family, the Holocaust and the Aftermath by Maria Chamberlain (Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd, 2022). Reviewed by Hamish Kallin. Never Tell Anyone You’re Jewish is a brilliant title for an unsettling and unusual book. The author, Maria Chamberlain, now 77 years old, has lived in Edinburgh since her parents […]
Ralph Darlington, Labour Revolt in Britain, 1910-14 (Pluto Press, 2023). Reviewed by Dexter Govan. Since the pandemic, the contradictions around us have become ever more visible. The continued decline in our living standards clashes violently with images of billionaires’ rockets racing skyward. With each day that passes, reports of soaring inflation and poor growth increase […]
So you thought thirteen years of Tory rule had turned the UK into a banana republic ? Think again. We don’t produce bananas and we’re more certainly not a republic, more’s the pity. In a country where some people in work cannot afford to buy actual bananas and are reliant on food banks, where most […]
On Coronation Day, and on the day of a repubican rally on Calton Hill, Reuben Duffy explains why a Scotland with Charles Mountbatten-Windsor as its sovereign cannot be a full democracy and an equal society that can properly reckon with its colonial past. We are living through the likes of something precious few on this […]
A Radical Hearth – Editorial Lessons from Strike Season – Olivia Crook, Lara, Paula Dixon, Amber Ward Glimmers of a Resurgent Student Movement? – Coll McCail Poem: Erasure Yoga for Striking Workers – Allie Kerper The Mythical Separation Between Workers and Public – Roz Foyer Nourished by Love – Rona Proudfoot No Routes Left: Striking […]
Lift your eyes from the enchanting orb of party politics and government and you will see an unsettled Scotland. It is a country of workers moved to strike against bosses struggling to hold down wages. A country where asylum seekers are detained in hotels while fascists chant outside their windows. A country where sexual health […]
Olivia Crook, Lara, Paula Dixon, and Amber Ward paint vibrant scenes from the education pickets. ‘I didn’t know that anyone had ever written a song about a picket line!’ I laugh. Everyone I know outside of work knows every song ever written about pickets. But this morning, one of the probationer teachers at my school […]
Coll McCail detecs solidarity between students and staff that is regenerating a united movement that can face current challenges. Thirteen years ago, thousands of students stormed Conservative Party headquarters. The ramifications of the Millbank occupation reached far beyond the student movement. It was a critical juncture in the fight against David Cameron’s austerity agenda. Since […]
Allie Kerper’s erasure poem from the transcript of ‘Yoga for Golfers’ by Yoga with Adriene. The spine is collapsing.We’re gonna unravel time. Tired, rickety,we need to do this. Everything under the wrists,tension in belly. Deep breath, drop the Earthand look forward. Exhale, claw into the base.Up sweet spine, turn left, find a rock.Reach up in […]
Roz Foyer explains why the season of strikes has brought the public into closer connection with the battles of our unions. This year’s STUC annual Congress follows a year in which industrial action was at its highest level for the past decade and takes place during a year in which that trend is most certainly […]