The Jolani regime in Syria has promised peace, while the world has watched Israel seize 600km of Syrian territory. But the land seizures will stretch Israel to the limit, writes Chris Sutherland. In recent weeks the UK broadcast media gave us news about Elon Musk and Nigel Farage but forgot to mention Israel’s illegal 600km […]
Without the credible threat of legal challenge, polluters will act with impunity, writes Benjamin Brown.
History doesn’t mechanically repeat itself, but today parts of the West are closer to fascism than at any time since the 1930s. A set of crises are combining to destabilise domestic political systems across the world. As the political centre-ground recedes, there has been polarisation to the right and left, but the main beneficiary is […]
Unions in Scotland have a chance to make sure the change in Westminster shifts attitudes in Holyrood, writes UNISON Scottish Secretary Lilian Macer. Where does the recent General Election result leave trade unions? How can we best use these results to benefit workers? These are the questions that unions consider after every election regardless of […]
The University of the West of Scotland is discriminating against its own students in London, write Nikhil Mathew and Priyambada Seal. The Students’ Federation of India – United Kingdom is calling for a protest in response to ongoing discriminatory behavior and partiality faced by south asian students at the University of the West Scotland’s London […]
The most important test of your education may be how you decide to use your voice in the face of genocide, write Loz and Mishmish, members of the Edinburgh University Justice for Palestine Society. As bagpipes herald another round of graduations at Edinburgh University, an unexpected chorus rises above the fanfare. This month, graduating students […]
Even as the genocide continues, Israel faces the prospect of wider defeat of its strategic objectives and Zionism is on the back foot, writes Chris Sutherland. For six months it feels like we’ve been witnessing the death of a society. 34,000 Gazans slaughtered and 76,770 wounded and injured at the time of writing. Relentless killing, […]
Jennifer Debs speaks to Javitxu Aijon, one of six anti-fascists imprisoned this month for protesting against the far-right Vox party in Spain.
The Old Oak explores the struggle to maintain hope and solidarity in working-class communities. Margaret Petrie reviews Ken Loach’s latest film. The Old Oak (currently showing on Netflix) is the third in a trilogy of films set in the Northeast of England from Director Ken Loach and Scriptwriter Paul Laverty. All three films give voice […]
The problem is not filmmakers’ motivations but the commercial priorities of the industry and the scarcity of funding to tell Scottish stories, finds Rory MacNeish. The relocation of Alasdair Gray’s novel Poor Things from Glasgow to London in Yorgos Lanthimos’s screen adaptation prompted much griping. “For many, it will be like watching The Lord of […]