Common Weal Investment
Iain Cairns, researcher with the Reid Foundation, proposes a new approach to public finance and investment that breaks with the UK's neoliberal dogma.
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Community Banking
Gordon Morgan, researcher with the Reid Foundation, makes the case for community banking to build local economies.
Personal Finance for social need
Katherine Trebeck, research & policy advisor for Oxfam, looks at what we need to do to create secure and sufficient personal finance.
Time for Life
Gillian Wales, co-author of recent Reid Foundation report on working time, looks at the report and how it could transform work/life balance in Scotland
Sculpting our own footprint
Dr John McDonald, Director of the Scottish Global Forum, looks at the defence and security challenges that would face an independent Scotland
Engaging not Threatening
Isobel Lindsay argues that we need to change the defence discourse
It’s All About Unions
Jackson Cullinane argues that the Reid Foundation report on industrial democracy will not address the problems of capitalism because it does not put trade unions centre stage in all workplace matters
Margo MacDonald 19 April 1943 – 4 April 2014
Recent months have seen the loss of four major figures in left politics and policy across Scotland and Britain. Here we collect four appreciations of the lives of Tony Benn, Bob Crow, Margo McDonald and Ailsa McKay
Tony Benn 3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014
Recent months have seen the loss of four major figures in left politics and policy across Scotland and Britain. Here we collect four appreciations of the lives of Tony Benn, Bob Crow, Margo McDonald and Ailsa McKay
Bob Crow 13 June 1961 – 11 March 2014
Recent months have seen the loss of four major figures in left politics and policy across Scotland and Britain. Here we collect four appreciations of the lives of Tony Benn, Bob Crow, Margo McDonald and Ailsa McKay