What’s Our Story? A Tribute to Alasdair MacIntyre
Quân Nguyen reflects on the teaching of Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025), an extraordinary philosopher whose criticism of liberalism should compel a withered Left to tend its own roots.
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Still Something Left in Labour
Stephen Smellie reviews Keep Left – Red Paper on Scotland 2025, edited by Pauline Bryan (Luath Press: 2025).
The Problem with the Left Alliance
The Scottish Socialist Party’s Colin Fox responds to the statement in SLR 145 calling for a working-class Left alliance before the 2026 Holyrood elections.
Hospitality: Hope of the Movement
The union movement must do everything to prevent the risk of a rift between declining organised sectors and workers in the ever growing service sector, urges Yana Petticrew.
Observations on Gig Worker Organising
As platform companies try to force a race to the bottom, Xabier Villares reviews gig workers’ tactics for organising in Scotland and around the world.
Behind the Crisis at Dundee University
Angela Daly describes the role of unions in responding to the recent fiasco at the University of Dundee, and their power to shape alternative systems of university governance.
The Legacy of Pandemic Politics in Scotland
It is time that Scotland's social movements learned lessons from Covid about crisis preparation and governance, urges Ewan Kerr.
Time for a Democratic Economy
The recent Scotonomics conference debated a different kind of economy where money, energy and industry are at the service of the people, report Maggie Chapman and Peter McColl.
Scotland needs a Working-Class Left Alternative
A range of organisations and individuals have come together to advocate for Left alliances in time for the 2026 Scottish elections.
Cuba’s Cultural Resistance
Calum Baird, the only Scottish artist to perform at the 2024 Havan Biennial in Cuba, sits down with Coll McCail to discuss Cuba's cultural resistance.