John Dennis explains the STUC’s call for action in Scotland against the needless deaths of migrant workers building the World Cup stadia in Qatar Scotland are out of the World Cup. Nonetheless the STUC, acting on the Congress motion – see below – has resolved to call a major protest involving leafleting, red card show […]
Benji Brown reports on the recent Aberdeen Climate Camp and where the campaign goes from here After a summer filled with heatwaves, wildfires, and drought, Europe is waking up to the terrifying realities of climate breakdown. Extreme conditions endured by many poorer communities for decades are now increasingly impacting the lives of citizens in rich […]
Stuart Fairweather recounts the new initiatives to connect different types of poverty into one campaign. Recent Scottish Left Review editorials have asked an important, if uncomfortable, question: why has the public response to the cost-of-living crisis demonstrations been so limited? We are not involving enough people, so to increase involvement we need to be timely […]
Peter Lomas surveys the contours of an increasingly dangerous and unstable Europe. Someone once said that nuclear weapons make the world safe for conventional war. This was certainly what Vladimir Putin thought when he declared, on launching the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that ‘whoever tries to interfere with us, and even more so to create […]
Then University of Glasgow student, Dougie Harrison, recall’s Reid’s election fifty-one years ago. In summer 1971, with every active communist in Glasgow, I was aware that something was fomenting in the shipyards on the upper Clyde. I was also very aware that we had a university Rectorial election that October. We needed a candidate. The […]
Raphael De Santos looks at the implications of high inflation, rising interest rates and a contracting economy for Scotland after independence. Nine months ago, I wrote in Scottish Left Review (September/October 2021) prior to the full impact of Covid-19 being known, outlining the challenges facing a Scottish economy under independence. Since then, we have seen […]
We reprint the speech Tabassum Niamat gave to open the first Festival of Resistance. Good afternoon, everyone. I hope you are all enjoying the day so far. Today, we remind ourselves about what took place in Pollokshields a year ago. I look at this crowd and see those familiar faces that stood together shoulder to […]
Fatima Uygun and Tabassum Niamat reflect on how a community stood up to be counted. Kenmure Street in Pollokshields on Glasgow’s Southside is a quiet street, almost a leafy suburb. But events there last year echoed around Britain and the world. What happened on Thursday 13 May 2021 attracted the world’s media and became an […]
Graham Smith takes comfort from the continuing long-term decline of the monarchy in Britain. Observers from overseas might be forgiven for thinking the British are unanimous in their love of the monarchy and all things royal. Coverage of recent Platinum Jubilee celebrations focused almost entirely on the voices of those who are enthusiastic about the […]
John Barker exposes those that are effectively judge and jurors in their own malfeasance. Earlier this year there were reports of a Financial Reporting Council (FRC) tribunal in which a partner of KPMG and layers of managers below him shifted blame for a forgery onto each other in the case of Carillion’s bankruptcy. Despite being […]