Issue 101 – Calculating Brexit
Issue 101 is now published. Along with 13 articles and the Editorial, there are book reviews and a ‘Kick up the Tabloids’. Please support SLR by becoming a paying subscriber at the 'join us' button above.
Issue 101
Brex-o-meter
Sep – Oct 2017
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The Editor – no silly season
Jeremy Corbyn is touring Labour marginals (90-100 ) highlighting the weakness of the Tories & proving he is a gr8 speaker.
Bouncing Brexit into being benign
Neil Findlay lays out his vision for post-Brexit.
Scotland and free movement of labour
John Foster explains why loss of ‘free movement’ would open up possibilities.
Breaking bad Brexit
Mike Danson sees dangers ahead in any kind of Brexit.
Where stands independence now?
John Bratton argues the independence movement can learn from Corbyn.
Reclaiming our economy
Richard Leonard outlines bold plans to reconfigure economic relations in Scotland.
For a people’s ScotRail
Stuart MacLeod sets out a plan for better rail transport in Scotland.
More than no monarchy
Graham Smith sketches out what a modern republic would look like.
Making Britain non-nuclear
Arthur West surveys the possibilities after the signing of a new treaty.
Orange and green plus red, white & blue
Brian Campfield examines the underlying forces of Northern Ireland’s political impasse.
Grenfell & housing: profit before people
Dave Sherry says neo-liberalism is at the root of the housing safety disaster.
Firefighters demand justice over Grenfell
Denise Christie shows that the Grenfell disaster is part of a wider systemic failure.
Is strike action over?
Stephen Smellie argues unions have to be smart in the new circumstances.
Making sense of ‘October’
Ian Gasse highlights a weekend of film in Dumfries reconsidering the October Revolution of 1917.
Book Review
Stewart Maclennan reviews 'Russia 1917: Workers' Revolution and the Festival of the Oppressed, 2017'.
Book Review
Jackie Bergson reviews 'Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power', 2016.
Book Review
Gordon Morgan reviews 'Tackling Timorous Economics – How Scotland’s Economy Could Work Better for Us All'.
Book Review
Tommy Sheppard reviews 'What post-Brexit Scotland can learn from the Nordics'.
Book Review
Colin Darroch reviews 'No is Not Enough: defeating the new shock politics'.
Book Review
Sean Sheehan reviews 'Empire Games'.
Book Review
Sean Sheehan reviews 'Someone Always Robs the Poor'.
Book Review
Jim Phillips reviews 'The Battle of Grangemouth: a worker’s story'.
Book Review
Robin Jones reviews 'Dirty Secrets: How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy'.
Vladimir McTavish’s A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
September in politics usually marks the official end of the ‘silly season’ but that seems to have changed in 2017.