In a turbulent year for Europe – and democracy in general – Gordon Morgan looks at how voters in the ten EU countries with elections reacted to the events unfolding around them and finds them voting ‘against’ rather than voting ‘for’
The Occupy movement points outwards from the mess in which we find ourselves to something better. Justin Kenrick suggests that the Transition movement can be the radical agenda the movement is looking for.
From the next issue of Scottish Left Review we will introduce a regular feature page looking at the constitutional debate. Until then, the following are a couple of selected responses to the last issue.
Tom Leonard: Selected Poems
The European left and the crisis in Europe
SALMOND BREEDING FEARS
We explore the independence and the left, with positive cases for and against and analysis of whether the left is divided
Perhaps only a couple of years away from an indepedence referendum, what will the left do? And what should it do?
Tom Nairn takes on Jeremy Paxman’s analysis of the state of British identity in the post-empire era and finds a nationalism that no longer seems to know if it is alive or dead.
We asked a supporter of independence to outline a positive, left case for that position (using almost exactly the same wording as asked of the union supporter). Stephen Maxwell responds.