Issue 102
Nov – Dec 2017
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Issue 102 has 15 articles on issues including public sector pay and 'Barbour’s legacy and rediscovering Glasgow’s radical housing tradition', 7 book reviews and the regular feature 'Kick up the tabloids'. Please consider becoming a paying subscriber - click on the 'Join Us' button above.
The election of Richard Leonard as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party benefits the whole of the left.
Chris’ untimely death robs us of a good man, a great socialist and internationalist and a dear friend.
Mark Serwotka gave the fifth Jimmy Reid annual lecture on 5 October 2017 in Glasgow. It was entitled ‘Pay, people and power: the progressive case for public services’. Here, we print part of the lecture on the fight for decent public sector pay.
Mike Danson and Geoff Whittam say there is public good in pay rises for public sector workers.
Stephen Smellie calls for government intervention to remedy an injustice.
Gregor Gall looks at the experience of how to beat the new thresholds.
Craig Lundie responds to the arguments of the last editorial on the SNP and social democracy.
Raymond Mennie argues the SNP is not all it’s cracked up to be.
Mark Brown says the SNP has let down its supporters by effectively supporting apartheid in Israel.
Hugh Cullen says the independence movement needs independence from the SNP.
Bill Bonnar says a republic must be just the tip of the iceberg of more profound societal changes.
Michael O’Brien tells of how the fight for rent controls continue one hundred years on.
Rebekah McVey makes a rallying call for young people to increase their political participation.
Nigel Flanagan reports on how the tide may be turning against anti-union Amazon.
Cherilyn Elston assesses the prospects for the Colombian state to enforce the peace deal.
Colin Turbett makes the case for taking discrimination against Gypsy travellers seriously.
Peter Lomas argues that although the issue of migration is contradictory it can be managed.
Sean Sheehan reviews 'Money Power Love: a novel; by Joss Sheldon.
Jackie Bergson reviews 'Belonging: The Truth behind the Headlines', directed by Morag Livingstone.
Richard Whyte reviews 'Bob Crow: Socialist, Leader, Fighter - a political biography' by Gregor Gall.
Andrew Sanders reviews 'Revolt on the Clyde' by William Gallagher.
Colin Fox reviews 'The Syriza Wave - Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left', by Helena Sheehan.
Robin Jones looks back at Margaret Thatcher’s ‘Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World’ (Harper Collins, 2002, £25).
Donald McCormick reviews 'A Nation Changed? The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On', Gerry Hassan and Simon Barrow (eds.) Luath, £16.99, 9781912147168
Vladimir McTavish on the Celebrity Great British Bake-Off, Holyrood and the Scottish football team.