In Scottish Left Review (Jul/Aug 2022), George Kerevan bemoaned what he sees as increased working-class support for the SNP in the 2022 Scottish council elections stating: ‘With the avowed anti-capitalist parties remaining miniscule and irrelevant, what alternative did the working-class have?’ Kerevan criticised the election campaign and the ‘negligible’ votes of the Scottish Trade Unionist […]
Matthew Crighton reviewed the Jimmy Reid Foundation’s edited collection called A New Scotland: Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society in the Jul/Aug 2022 issue. The review was a legitimate if narrowly-based one but it did not take into account several issues germane to the project of producing such an edited work. Prime amongst these […]
Mary MacCallum Sullivan starts with an apology to SLR: I wish I’d met you earlier I regret the delay. I have now read – very thoroughly – two issues, so please consider me repentant. In the last issue, the editorial pointed to the big issues presented by the pandemic, three of which were what the […]
A first-time reader, Mary MacCallum Sullivan, reflects on our general election analysis (SLR 115) I am ‘of the left’, but have never identified as a Labour supporter, or, indeed, as a socialist. I have no doubt that that position is, generally, shared by many. I enjoyed reading the issue – the first time! But it […]
Fascism and the far right There are few things more important to the working-class movement than responding to the threat of fascism. Cry ‘fascist’ at every right-wing politician and there’s a danger of missing the real thing. Ignore the risk and then the potential horrors of Nazi Germany await. Neil Davidson (Scottish Left Review Jul/Aug […]
Scottish Left Review encourages our readers to respond to published articles. Here we print correspondence on an article in the last issue. Joseph McAleer (Scottish Left Review, January/February 2019) positions himself alongside right-wing figures such as US Senators, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, in his apparent support for punitive US sanctions against the people of […]