‘Late Night Girl’ reports on her continuing campaign for fairness and justice at Pret-A-Manger As I continue to recuperate and come to terms with everything that happened in my personal life and from work since my last article (‘On the frontline: crushed by corporate capitalist culture’, Scottish Left Review, May/June 2019), a lot has happened […]
Mhairi McAlpine argues that cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence offer the prospect of fully automated luxury communism A decade on from its low-key birth, most people have now heard of Bitcoin and other associated cryptocurrencies. An alternative in this new technology has come from the libertarian right, with the left alternatively ignoring or denouncing. It’s time […]
Aidan Beatty spoke to Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on her writing on racism in housing in the US Since the publication of her first book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, in 2016, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (KYL) has emerged as one of the most incisive commentators on the politics of race and class in the contemporary United States. Her […]
The Jimmy Reid Foundation made this submission to the Institute of Employment Rights The Jimmy Reid Foundation, with 11 affiliates from the major unions in Scotland and an interest and expertise in matters of employment relations, welcomes the publication of the Institute of Employment Rights (IER) draft Charter of Workers’ Rights as an attempt to […]
Though still in poll position, Kenny MacAskill argues all is not well in the ‘House of SNP’ Scotland’s political order has changed with SNP straddling the land as Labour once did. The former giants now reduced to sniping from the side-lines. That this is about the life cycle of politics and that all political parties […]
Robbie McLaughlan explains the SNP’s double-speak on the plight of the poor In September 2005, actor, Mike Myers, and hip-hop artist, Kanye West, appeared on US television to solicit donations as part of a celebrity-driven fundraiser for the displaced victims of Hurricane Katrina. It was during their segment on the hour-long A Concert for Hurricane […]
Angela McCormack reports on how people are revolting against the politicians’ inaction In 2018 in Scotland, the number of drug-related deaths reached 1,187. This is an increase of 27% from 2017. It is the largest number ever recorded and it has more than doubled in the last decade. These figures are the highest in Europe. […]
Stephen Smellie looks forward to the rebellion unleashed by a Swedish school student Thousands of young people across the world are preparing for strike action on 20 September. However, it is not unions or any leftist parties that are organising and leading this strike movement. Instead, hundreds of school students, co-ordinating through social media, have […]
Dylan Hamilton outlines a week of escalating action against climate change by youngsters From 20 to 27 of September, there will be a massive week of action with people in over one hundred countries around the globe taking part. This week of action has come after years of governments and corporations ignoring climate change to […]
Jackie Williams highlights the differences and similarities the NHS faces on privatisation north and south of the border The dangers inherent in NHS trusts in England setting up wholly owned subsidiaries (WOSs) – in a bid to avoid tax – are increasingly apparent in terms of threats to patient services and jobs. Of this, we […]