Editorial: How Many Struggles Make a Movement?
Can a people dominated by landowners and developers be stirred to resistance? How do little struggles mobilise and build momentum in the interest of the masses as a whole?
Issue 140
Taking Back the Land
Jun – Jul 2024
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The Greens are Back on Better Ground
The SNP’s decision to scrap the Bute House Agreement stung, but the Greens will bounce back once they find their real friends, writes Jen Bell.
Big Oil in Green Clothing
The same interests that bulldozed Old Torry’s harbour are coming for Torry’s thriving park. Scott Herret is involved in the struggle to save it.
A New Strategy for the North of Scotland
It’s time for the Left beyond the central belt to shift from a national to a regional strategy, writes Neil Mackay.
Will the Scottish Left Step up for Land Justice?
Struggles in Colombia and across the world can help guide us to build a land justice movement in Scotland, write Heather Urquhart and Tara Wight.
A Love Letter to Voltaire & Rousseau
Rory MacNeish finds out how Otago Lane’s independent bookshop benefits the biodiversity of Glasgow’s West End.
Always Different, Always the Same
If we think of our towns differently, writes James Barrowman, we can think of our world differently too.
Acid and Phlegm: Ingredients of a Future North
Beth Ansell reviews The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands by Alex Niven (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Can Renters Organise Beyond the Block?
Esmond Sage reviews Isaac Rose’s The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis (Repeater, 2024)
Gorbachev’s Porridge
Sanny Doolan contributed more than most to the tremendous unity of Ayrshire's striking miners. His son, John Doolan, speaks to Cailean Gallagher.
Struggles Old and New
In 1984-85, miners and mining communities overcame the divisions sown by the state and challenged their own prejudices in the process, writes Margaret Petrie.
Long Live Black/Red Bravery
Viola Liuzzo reviews Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, Chicago University Press, 2023
Is Scotland Pro-Palestine?
Scotland can be an ally of Palestine even without statehood of its own, explains Ryan Swan.
No Rest Till They Divest
The Justice for Palestine Society is untiring in its effort to rid Edinburgh University of investments that fund the genocide in Gaza.
The Role of Trade Unions in Ukraine
Colin Turbett reports on how Ukranian trade unions believe solidarity can help them build their potential to support the country’s workers during and after the war.
Portugal 1974: When Everything was Possible
The Portuguese Revolution of April 25, 1974 smashed the fascist regime, but it could also have achieved real socialism, writes Mark Brown.