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 […]
Sean Sheehan reviews Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East, by Jonathan Parry (Princeton 2022). Promised Lands begins with a bombardment in 1799 against a town in what is now Israel, an opening salvo in the history of British involvement in parts of the Ottoman Empire. The intention of the bombardment was not […]
This special online issue, supplementing the printed issue 133, features articles submitted to the magazine during its change in editorial staff, between November 2022 and February 2023. Contributors agreed for them to be printed to coincide with the online publication of the printed March-April issue, despite the delay. A New Phase of Politics in Scotland […]
Editorial introduction to this special online-only issue comprising articles submitted for the Jan-Feb issue of the Scottish Left Review. They say absolute power corrupts absolutely. If so, the limits of devolution mean Scotland’s First Ministers can only be corrupted so far. But within the SNP, concentrated power surely had something to do with the resignation […]
Editorial: The tectonic plates of politics shift again His and her family firm: Publicly funded pinnacle of inequality in wealth and power Tommy Sheppard Off with their heids as we keep ours – the unfinished revolution must be finished Bill Bonnar Subject-ive Questions David McKinstry Yes, a republic! But what sort of republic? Gregor Gall […]
The Foundation held a very successful ninth annual lecture on the evening of Thursday 6 October with around 200 people in attendance to hear Christina McAnea, Glasgow-born and the first woman UNISON general secretary in the Banqueting Hall in the City Chambers on George Square. Christina outlined the case of how unions are fighting the […]
Tories are in a continued crisis but still the attacks continue … but before we get to that, there is the small matter of the monarchy and a republic to deal with and which the cover for this issue flags up. So, we have a once in a lifetime opportunity – a historical moment, if […]
After BoJo’s long but often AWOL goodbye since resigning on 7 July 2022, you still need to pinch yourself to recognise that current favourite, Liz Truss, is going to be an even more right-wing PM than Johnson was. The Tory leadership contest that led to her election highlights a number of drastic deficiencies in our […]
Asking an awkward question and needing an honest answer: What’s left of the left? The May 2022 local elections were an important staging post for politics, especially those of a radical nature, in Scotland. On the one hand, they took the temperature of the voting populace on important matters, both local and national. On the […]