While both UK and Scottish governments concentrate renewable energy profits in private hands, Gordon Morgan asks what it will take to break the Thatcherite legacy and put power into the Scottish people’s hands. Labour was elected with a policy to remove fossil fuels from electricity in Great Britain by 2030. They are largely on course […]
Sara Cowan argues that the effects of climate breakdown will disproportionately affect women. Climate Change cannot be seen asgender neutral, but the Scottish government has failed to address this. A Just Transition must reimagine who our economy works for. That includes a move away from the neo-liberal market-driven dominance that we’ve witnessed in the last […]
Colin Brown from the Fire Brigades Union reports on what it feels like to fight a burning Arthur’s Seat and calls for investment into Fire and Rescue Services to prepare for increasing wildfires and the effects of climate change. On 25 August firefighters gathered at the Glasgow necropolis to remember the 7 firefighters who lost […]
After many direct action groups failed to sustain their climate activism, Emma Brown reflects on how the attempts by This is Rigged to bridge climate justice with food justice is becoming more urgent every day This is Rigged were a youth led movement that worked to unite the struggles of the climate and cost of […]
Big Tech plans over 20 hyperscale data centres in Scotland. Amidst widespread resistance, Kim Pratt points to the international dimensions of how disastrous the necessary mineral mining is for the environment and for communities affected. Plans for data centres are mounting in Scotland. Our mild climate and plentiful renewables mean that Scotland has caught the […]
Ecuador’s Indigenous people faces a new alliance between the far right and extractivist mining industries. Patricio Mesa reports back on the fight on the frontline of the climate crisis. Ecuador is entering a new phase of even more intense entrenchment of extractive industries. The current reopening of the National Mining Register, the new oil licensing […]
This is an edited extract from a longer contribution to the discussions of Peoples Against Extractivism, an international coalition of social movements resisting predatory, extractive projects on their territories. The reconfiguration of US imperialism has once again turned the spotlight on Latin America. The 2025 National Security Strategy sets out a shift towards what might […]
Sandra George’s photographs are a poignant reminder of a previous period of social activism in the working class communities of Edinburgh. As Councillor Margaret Graham says, they “offer an invaluable record of Edinburgh and its communities, seen through the eyes of someone deeply committed to social justice, equality, and human connection”. It’s important to add […]
In the second part of an interview with Cailean Gallagher and Stephen Smellie, Karren Morrison and Charlie McArthur discuss the pitfalls and potential power of trade union community organising.
Trade unions already confront employers using data to monitor work. Daniele-Hadi Irandoost and David William Parry argue that the left must also challenge the surveillance of workers as political actors by the state.