A new collaborative research project and resource base will support trade unionists as they divest from the Israeli arms trade. By the Editors of New Socialist and Cailean Gallagher. First published on New Socialist. Many of the bombs being dropped on Gaza are being dropped from drones made by unionised workers in Britain. The missile […]
Henry Roberts explains how wealthy investors are ridding St Andrews of its cultural spaces. Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods recently announced plans to open a high-end US-style sports bar in St Andrews, the golf capital of the world. What has angered both students and residents is that the bar’s proposed site is the beloved cinema […]
Palestine Action is a direct action network targeting British complicity in Israeli apartheid. We spoke to its co-founder Huda Ammori in September 2023. On 14th October, a day of Palestine solidarity demonstrations across the world, PA activists sprayed the BBC’s London HQ in red paint, ‘symbolising their complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people’. PA is calling for people […]
⭐⭐⭐ A mixture of spoken word, storytelling and jazz/soul, A Portrait of Ludmilla as Nina Simone is an uplifting but candid account of Simone’s life and legacy. Ludmila Dabo retells the story of Nina’s early life and the brutality of her treatment by various partners, and these challenging references offer some glimpses into the inner world of […]
In The Collie’s Shed, a multi-generation cast of actors portray the past and present lives of four men whose lives were fundamentally changed by the 1985 miners’ strike. Told from the perspective of those who stood proudly and defiantly on the picket lines and of those who walked past it, some reluctantly and others less so, […]
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cyriel Buysee’s 1903 Flemish classic The Van Paemel Family is a compelling story of class struggle. It is lovingly portrayed by Valentin Dhaenens, and the humour and warmth of his character acting keeps you engrossed throughout. Dhaenens is a one-man army (literally) and he offers a tour-de-force of character acting as he interacts with the entire […]
Or, how Greta Gerwig took on Plato and won. By Quan Nguyen. Encountering mass cultural phenomena can be conflicting for us on the left. We know how the ideological machinery of Hollywood productions constrains any progressive messaging in pop culture, and is able to capture and appropriate radical ideas, whether Black radicalism in Black Panther, […]
Will Oppenheimer do for the anti-nuclear movement what Braveheart did for independence? The release of Braveheart in 1997 had an impact on the cultural identity of Scotland and on politics. To what extent is of course a matter of contestation to this day, but the tourist industry and the independence movement has never looked back. […]
SNP Socialists co-convenor Graham Campbell reviews the SNP’s new strategy and its significance for the wider independence movement. There was a very low level of expectation or excitement in advance of June 24th’s SNP Convention in Dundee. In lieu of the special conference that was postponed after Nicola Sturgeon’s sudden resignation in March, a thousand […]
A few days ago I finally graduated in International Politics from the University of Stirling. To show solidarity with striking lecturers, I wore the pink sash of the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) on stage while receiving my degree. Little did I know that the next day my university would cut me out of the […]