A New Job
In a short story, Tony Beekman imagines a future in which the response to the financial crash is not simply ever-more redistribution from the poor to the rich, but a radical change in society...
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Campbell Christie: 1937 – 2011
A tribute to the late Campbell Christie
Reviews
A Rose Loupt Oot - Poetry and Song Celebrating the UCS Work-in and Downfall: the Tommy Sheridan Story
Kick Up the Tabloids
SALMOND HUNGER STRIKE MARATHON
Issue 66: Introducing the Jimmy Reid Foundation
Six writers explore an agenda for Scotland's new left wing think tank. Plus the Christie Commission, Murdoch in Scotland and 40 years after the UCS work-in
Comment
Those responsible for the failures continue to leave footprints all over the Scottish political agenda which are entirely out of proportion to the minority position they hold
An Unequal Share of Life
Ian Bell sees in the recent riots the clear fingerprints of Britain’s inequality and while Scotland may have avoided the violence it is just as afflicted by the unfairness. What can be done?
The Importance of Nation
Jim and Margaret Cuthbert argue that many of the problems facing both Scotland and the world could be tackled – but only if nations are willing to exert their power on markets.
Education – Hope or Despair?
Henry Maitles looks at the big issues facing Scottish school education and that from citizenship to inequality, tackling neoliberalism is a big agenda
Reactions to Violence
Eurig Scandrett looks at the history of non-violence, environmental justice and the left in post-devolution Scotland and concludes that there is an awful lot still to be achieved