We Feel Discarded
Insulted by the scrapping of the National Care Service, disabled people will renew our struggle for deep and principled care service reform, writes April O’Neill.
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The Path to Public Care Provision
With the end of the NCS, Susan Galloway sets out the union alternative for national care, backed by UNISON and the wider union movement
The National Care Service: A Victim of Elite Class Struggle
Behind the petty politics, market-based providers were pushing hard to obstruct reforms, writes Luke Beesley.
Care for a Profit?
Iain Ferguson considers the flaws of the now-failed Bill and what the latest policy-shift means for the vision of profit-free care.
The Wasted Power of Pensions
Dave Watson introduces the latest Reid Foundation report, Pension Fund Investment and the Economy, on how pension fund investment can better serve both public workers and the Scottish economy.
Technical Solutions to Fuel Poverty: A Retrospective
Colin Porteous reflects on the work of Technical Services Agency and its damp-busting and flat-building achievements in 1980s Glasgow.
Lost in Chimeras
In La Chimera, the past is only ever allowed to exist in the present: plural, contingent, always being re-made.
Peat Bogs and Passion Flowers
The Tenementals' singer-songwriter talks about their new album and the making of political art.
The Jews Who Want Justice
This book sets out to challenge the post-war conception of Jews as having eternally striven for an Israel.
No Embittered Soul
If you want to know what sumud means, you'll find it here. If you want to know what sumud means, you'll find it here. Phil Chetwynd reviews Indigenous Soul by Nada Shawa (Main Point Books, 2024).