Editorial: Against Faint-Heartedness
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.
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 […]