Issue 1
Sep – Oct 2000
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“If Scottish Labour can’t be reclaimed for socialism and social democracy then a re-alignment of the left in Scotland is inevitable. That is why we have launched the Scottish Left Review as a forum for discussion.” Scottish Left Review Issue 1
New Labour boasts that it has abandoned ideology. It hasn’t. lt abandoned socialism and social democracy and fell in love with free market capitalism. It embraced the ideology of right wing conservatism that in recent decades has been called Thatcherism. Every politicaI party has an ideology which literally means a body of ideas that reflects […]
The Scottish Left has always been diverse, cross-party and non-party. Indeed, historically, the accusation against the Left has been that it lacked cohesion, preferring in-fighting amongst itself to uniting against its common enemies on the centre and right of politics. The Monty Python satire in the film “Life of Brian”, that ridicules the hatred between […]
by Roseanna Cunningham With the Scottish Parliament’s first year under its belt, there have predictably been many commentators delivering their equivalent of Report Cards. What has been singularly absent is any serious look at the extent to which both Whitehall and Westminster has accepted, or otherwise, the existence of the Parliament and the difference between […]
Bob Thomson: “There is almost certainty going to be a General Election nextyear. The trade unions effectively have a majority in Labour’s NEC and atnational conference. This is a prime opportunity for them to influence the content of the manifesto.” The trade unions founded the Labour Party – are they now overseeing its destruction? One […]
Having watched the media’s response to the recent Notting Hill Carnival it amazes me how quickly sections of the media and the Police have moved to claim that in the ‘Post Macpherson’ society things have gone too far. Police Officers up and down the country claim they are demoralised and unable to do their job. […]
We are – as the Sunday papers never seem to tire of reminding us – in a post- industrial age. Strikes and demonstrations are apparently old hat – as passe as last night’s limp polenta-and-endive salad at granita’s. How, then, are we to develop new forms of protest to get our point across? Its just […]
The Scottish Left Review will be a bi-monthly website magazine that will seek to provide a focal point of thought and discussion for the Scottish Left. It will be non-party but will aim to provide a forum for those on the Left of all parties and none. Such a forum is urgently required at a […]