Pete Cannell reports on the ScotE3 campaign to make climate action and social justice go hand-in-hand within the ‘just transition’ On 11 October 2015, I was one among several thousand linking arms across the Forth Road Bridge. This action organised by ‘Hands Over Our Forth’ (HOOF) was meant to be the latest stage in a […]
Academics Bill Knox and Alan McKinlay published their biography of Jimmy Reid called Jimmy Reid: A Clyde-built man (Liverpool University Press, 2019). It is the result of many year’s painstaking original work. On the occasion of its publication, Scottish Left Review interviewed both of the authors to ask them about why they choose to study […]
Jimmy Reid is often described as ‘the best MP that Scotland has never had’, but I believe that Jimmy was so much more. Sometimes it is easy to forget the scale of events which Jimmy led and took part in, especially when there was no social media. In June 1971, when the Tory Government announced […]
Catriona Reid and Elizabeth Reid Boulter share their experience of the inspirational annual lecture We are always excited about the annual Jimmy Reid memorial lecture. As we were not born during our Grandpa’s active life, it is always interesting to hear about him, particularly his famous rectorial address. Some years ago (2015), Nicola Sturgeon gave […]
Mary Senior highlights how the campaign for equal representation in unions can be moved forward My comrade and sister, Lynn Henderson of the PCS union, is leading a crucial initiative to advance women’s representation within unions – from the shopfloor to the leadership. Given the continued under-representation of half of citizens within the upper echelons […]
Megan Gordon says the 16 Days of Activism campaign is making progress but much remains to be done As we approach the period of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (25 November to 10 December), Scotland is in the middle of our first year of implementing a world-leading new domestic abuse law. At […]
The law must be revised to reflect how publicly funded services are now delivered argues Carole Ewart In October 2019, the UN General Assembly adopted a Resolution proclaiming 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information. This high-level platform will publicise the right to seek and receive information which enables people to […]
In August 2019, the SSP sent Bill Bonnar to visit the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. Here is his report The picture of Caracas which appears in most of the media proved to be deeply misleading. This was of a city racked by political violence, crime and a government clinging to power through the brutal use of […]
Sarah Glynn explains the roots of the current crisis and suggests a way out of it A hundred years ago, the imperial powers reneged on their promises and left the Kurds at the mercy of states that have attacked Kurdish culture, and threatened Kurdish existence. Instead of controlling their own lives, the Kurds found their […]
Jonathan Deans examines the extent of the Scottish Government’s unused powers and explains their existence When an act of legislation passes parliament, whether at Westminster or Holyrood, it will contain a commencement provision which states when the act comes into force as law. Usually, instead of setting a date, the legislation will state something like […]