Without legal threats, polluters act with impunity
Without the credible threat of legal challenge, polluters will act with impunity, writes Benjamin Brown.
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Sounding the Alarm: the Scottish Far-Right
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 […]
Opportunity Knocks
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 […]
UWS’s Deepening Discrimination Failures
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 […]
No Graduating From Genocide
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 […]
Is Israel on the brink of strategic defeat?
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, […]
Francoism Never Went Away
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: Confronting Resentment
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 […]
If Glasgow is a filmset, why don’t we tell our own stories?
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 […]
How the Right Destroyed Corbyn
Five years ago, on 7th April 2019, the Jewish Labour Movement passed a no-confidence motion on Jeremy Corbyn, adding to charges of anti-semitism that fuelled the Labour right’s anti-Corbyn campaign. Oh Jeremy Corbyn: the Big Lie shows how the allegations destroyed Corbyn’s socialist project, finds Bill Bonnar. Oh, Jeremy Corbyn; the Big Lie did the […]