Editorial: Duty and Action
While government prohibits certain organisations, it cannot inhibit the duty that drives us to resist.
Issue 146
Duties Against Empire
Jul – Aug 2025
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Low Ebb
Scotland is receding into international irrelevance. Will ideas and movements emerge, ask Sophie Johnson and Jonathon Shafi, that can reverse this trend?
The “Deterrence” Doctrine
It’s time for the peace and climate movements to get Britain’s nuclear proliferation back in the crosshairs, writes Samuel Rafanell-Williams.
The Age of Fossil Fascism
The far-right sees climate change as a welcome crisis and opportunity to harness energy. The ideology of this alliance is nothing new, write Climate Camp Scotland.
What Lockerbie Meant for Libyans
Scotland is part of the story of shifting blame, cloudy trials, and the devastation of US-led regime change that followed the 1988 bombing, writes Owen Schalk.
The Tbilisi Conundrum
The crisis in Georgia exemplifies the brutal geopolitics of imperialism in the 21st-century, writes Mark Brown.
The Liberation of Saigon
In May 1975, the Vietnamise people’s army toppled the US puppets. The victory was an example to liberation movements across the world, remembers Bill Bonnar.
Remembering the Bosnian Genocide
Thirty years since the mass murders in Srebrenica, Henry Maitles asks: whatever happened to 'Never Again'?
The Nordic Model is Not Right for Scotland
Paul Chambers speaks to the political officer of Scotland for Decrim about their opposition to Ash Regan’s Prostitution Bill.
‘Sex Work is Work’ is a Dangerous Mantra
Our labour movement should resist the commercialisation of sexual exploitation, argues Helen O'Connor.
Towards a Fairer Deal for Football Fans
The demonisation of football fans is a class issue, and if the left fail to tackle it, the far-right stands to win, writes Sean O’Neill.
Throwing Whaaps to the Wind
Marianne Brown’s The Shetland Way tells how an unjust energy transition has left lasting division and biodiversity loss on the Shetland isles. By Flick Monk.
Radical Voices in Scottish Education
Four neglected educational pioneers were responding to problems with both capitalist and socialist agendas, writes Walter Humes.
What’s Our Story? A Tribute to Alasdair MacIntyre
Quân Nguyen reflects on the teaching of Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025), an extraordinary philosopher whose criticism of liberalism should compel a withered Left to tend its own roots.
Still Something Left in Labour
Stephen Smellie reviews Keep Left – Red Paper on Scotland 2025, edited by Pauline Bryan (Luath Press: 2025).
The Problem with the Left Alliance
The Scottish Socialist Party’s Colin Fox responds to the statement in SLR 145 calling for a working-class Left alliance before the 2026 Holyrood elections.