The Deterioration of Construction Jobs
The Scottish construction sector needs an overhaul and unions have to do the heavy lifting, writes Davy Brockett.
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Teacher Numbers are Not a Luxury
The further cuts announced to teacher numbers will leave staff with no chance of meeting students’ needs, writes Jane Gow.
Why Colleges Have Been Cut To The Core
Scotland does not value the college sector, and that needs to change. That is the conclusion of a new paper from the Jimmy Reid Foundation on Further Education in Scotland, by John Kelly and Dave Watson.
Long Live the Popular Front?
The left coalition in France has demonstrated a capacity to compromise, sticking to its fundamental commitments and rejecting Macron’s Machiavellian moves. Fraser McQueen asks, can it holds its ground for the long term?
Democratic Autonomy: the Rojava Example
Jennifer Clapham reports on how the Kurdish Democratic Union Party draws its strength from the people.
Gaza and Lebanon: Is Britain Sleepwalking To War?
There are dangerous parallels between Britain’s support for Israel and its war-mongering stance ahead of the 1914 war, writes Chris Sutherland.
Workers of the Cloud, Unite!
Xabier Villares reviews Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, by Yanis Varoufakis (Penguin, 2023).
The Evaporating Protest Left
Coll McCail reviews If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, by Vincent Bevins.
What Was To Be Done?
Ronan Scott reviews The Workers’ Committee: An Outline of its Principles and Structure, by J. T. Murphy.
Editorial: How Many Struggles Make a Movement?
Can a people dominated by landowners and developers be stirred to resistance? How do little struggles mobilise and build momentum in the interest of the masses as a whole?