Editorial: The Heart of the Movement
Marginalisation, racism, and isolation make union organising challenging, but seeds of future strength are starting to take root.
Marginalisation, racism, and isolation make union organising challenging, but seeds of future strength are starting to take root.
Who today is willing to fight for that dream of peace, equality, and a nation that helps produce a far, far better world?
Technology is a weapon that enables a tightly ordered system of control. Inverting it depends on struggle in which technology can be an aid but never an agent.
Can a people dominated by landowners and developers be stirred to resistance? How do little struggles mobilise and build momentum in the interest of the masses as a whole?
What can the labour movement do to make Scotland into a place for anyone who seeks freedom, a decent income, and a comfortable home?
Our changing climate will give rise to new challenges, battles between capital and communities, new ways of living, and new senses of the self that may be individual or collective.
Through solidarity with Palestine, Scotland has set itself apart from many western nations and states, and distanced itself from Britain’s rulers.
As Starmer strides towards power, heedless of the cost of living crisis, the left across Scotland is taking up James Connolly's reply to the faint-hearted: our demands are moderate, we only want the earth.
Salvador Allende’s inaugural speech as the President of Chile pulsed with pride, not in his own success, but in the achievement of the parties and movements of the Chilean Left. Young and old, women and men, urban and rural had acted in concert to bring socialism to power.
A couple of years ago, deep in the pandemic, a group of trade union and community organisers, arts workers, and teachers met to discuss how to develop political education in Scotland. Since then, radical learning networks and schools have emerged across the country, many of them outside established institutions. There are schools channelling counter-capitalist currents […]