Editorial: New Coalitions of Service and Care
Thousands of people are being left to their own communities and collective devices to look after one another. But within the cracks in the welfare and care system, beautiful things can grow.
Issue 144
To Each According To Their Need
Feb – Mar 2025
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Defanging the DWP
A Scottish Minimum Income Guarantee could loosen the grip of a punishing welfare regime, writes Jen Bell.
Whither Welfare State Nationalism?
Now past 10 years since Indyref, Arianna Introna offers a disability justice perspective on the waning of welfare demands by the independence movement.
We Feel Discarded
Insulted by the scrapping of the National Care Service, disabled people will renew our struggle for deep and principled care service reform, writes April O’Neill.
The Path to Public Care Provision
With the end of the NCS, Susan Galloway sets out the union alternative for national care, backed by UNISON and the wider union movement
The National Care Service: A Victim of Elite Class Struggle
Behind the petty politics, market-based providers were pushing hard to obstruct reforms, writes Luke Beesley.
Care for a Profit?
Iain Ferguson considers the flaws of the now-failed Bill and what the latest policy-shift means for the vision of profit-free care.
The Wasted Power of Pensions
Dave Watson introduces the latest Reid Foundation report, Pension Fund Investment and the Economy, on how pension fund investment can better serve both public workers and the Scottish economy.
Technical Solutions to Fuel Poverty: A Retrospective
Colin Porteous reflects on the work of Technical Services Agency and its damp-busting and flat-building achievements in 1980s Glasgow.
Lost in Chimeras
In La Chimera, the past is only ever allowed to exist in the present: plural, contingent, always being re-made.
Peat Bogs and Passion Flowers
The Tenementals' singer-songwriter talks about their new album and the making of political art.
The Jews Who Want Justice
This book sets out to challenge the post-war conception of Jews as having eternally striven for an Israel.
No Embittered Soul
If you want to know what sumud means, you'll find it here. If you want to know what sumud means, you'll find it here. Phil Chetwynd reviews Indigenous Soul by Nada Shawa (Main Point Books, 2024).
Lessons on Solidarity and Complicity
Sofiah MacLeod addresses the defaming of Palestinian supporters as antisemitic, and the complicity of Israel’s supporters in a project deep-set with anti-Palestinian racism.
Defund the Death Jets
Daire Ní Chnáimh sets out the grounds of the global campaign to take the F-35s out of the sky.
Glasgow and Gaza 2024 – Four Poems.
I see the apple tree/ Already has a fuzz of growth/ Like the stubble on that broken face/ They pulled from under Gazan rubble
The Houthis Are No Ally
Kate Nevens looks at some of the misplaced Western support for Yemen's Houthi movement.