A Government We Called Our Own
Fifty years on from the coup in Chile, Oscar Mendoza reflects on the lasting legacy of Allende’s government.
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From Chile to the Ends of the Earth
The culture of the Chilean movement and government that was cut down in 1973 still lives in Scotland and across the world, writes Chris Dolan.
The Radical Fringe
The Fringe is a stage for both the struggle for better working conditions and the production of revolutionary Scottish culture, writes Mim Black.
A Country in Transition – transgender lives, resource ownership and Scottish independence
Thinking about transitions in tandem can help us to see autonomy and change in different ways, writes Niamh McNulty. When Westminster utilised Section 35 to overrule Holyrood on the Gender Recognition Reform Bill, I went down to Holyrood as a queer person and anarchist to hear how people had reacted. I was surprised that a […]
The Climate Transition Must be Real
The SNP’s climate politics are a well-directed theatre production. Political change comes not from rhetoric but from struggle, boycott, protest and assembly, writes Calum Hodgson. Whenever we see protesters in the news – consistently interrupting FMQs, challenging the First Minister, delaying or disrupting sporting events – there is a debate about how effective their actions […]
Time to Stand Against Ineos’s Injustices
Climate Camp Scotland organisers explain why it is preparing to challenge Scotland’s worst polluter and envision a Grangemouth beyond fossil fuels. About ten years ago, INEOS launched an all-out attack on their workforce at the Grangemouth refinery and petrochemical complex. After previous attacks on pension schemes and working conditions, INEOS’s owner Jim Ratcliffe, the UK’s […]
Between Two COPs
Six months after Sharm el Sheikh and six months from Dubai, the hard struggle continues to push governments to fund a just transition, writes Stephen Smellie. Strange to think that six months ago I was in Sharm el Sheikh at COP27, accommodated, like most other delegates, in a holiday complex with swimming pools, restaurants, beauty […]
Contents of Issue 133
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 […]
What Home Can Really Mean
Esmond Sage surveilles the situation of renter and tenent organising in the silver city and explores the radical hearth of Union Street. Living Rent in Aberdeen has a new lease of life (if that expression can be used for a tenants’ union). The tenants’ movement isn’t new here, of course. There’s a history here that […]
Leaving the Jute Mill
James Barrowman reviews a recent exhibition in Dundee, leading us back through the factory gates. The Cooper Gallery’s show Consider Labour is the first major exhibition of work by the late filmmaker Harun Farocki in Scotland, and places Dundee within the international network of cities that have hosted the ‘Labour in a Single Shot’ workshop […]