Editorial: Can the Scottish Left Align?
This issue brings many clues about what principles will unite the Left in Scotland with new party initiatives south of the border.
Issue 147
A New Left Party
Sept – Oct 2025
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Headline Demands for a Left Alternative
The Scottish Left Alternative announce a number of positions to spell out where they stand and what they will offer voters in next year’s Holyrood elections.
A Party for Real Independence?
Ahead of the Communist Party’s debate on the new left party, its executive member Stephanie Martin assesses some of its potential strategies.
The Problems with a Virtual Party
Pauline Bryan considers what lessons Your Party and the Labour left both need to take from Corbyn’s five-year Labour leadership.
The Green Case for Left Unity
With a strategy of unity, the Scottish Greens can be part of a wider left breakthrough.
No More Kneeling
Scottish socialists need to ensure any new party is guided by a republican strategy in both its politics and organisation.
A Party Built by Collective Action
Jan Baykara, Daire Ní Chnáimh, Pete Cannell offer RS21 Scotland’s perspective on the value of the new party opportunity.
Together we can say Scotland Demands Better
Ruth Boyle explains why unions and communities are marching for a new approach to jobs, investment, and social security.
Messing Around With the Kids
As the city makes deep cuts into support staff provision, Phil Chetwynd asks what is Edinburgh playing at?
Between Desolation and Hope: A Bronx Tale
The Bronx is a critical background in November's New York election, for it is where the Democratic party machine is most lethal, writes Ali Shehzad Zaidi.
Social Murderers on Trial
Chik Collins argues we must keep the politics in the political economy of health, in a review of Social Murder? by David Walsh and Gerry McCartney (Policy Press, 2024).
Precarity and the Collectivization of Struggle
Panos Theodoropoulos shares notes for organisers in Scotland based on years of struggle alongside precarious migrants in Glasgow.
Red Antiquity
Tom Anderson, John Clarke, and Bill Paul were three Scottish Socialist Labour Party radicals who brought classical studies and stories into the language and learning.
Dove Tales
Three poems from the Association of Scottish Artists for Peace.
Precisely Everywhere: Military Technology and Semiconductor Warfare
Today’s weapons systems run on reams of software coursing through stacks of silicon chips. Daire Ní Chnáimh reviews the history of semiconductor warfare and considers how we can grow the movement against it.
Is Mainstream Jewry Waking Up to the Disgrace of Israel?
Jewish attitudes to the genocide are shifting in Israel and beyond, writes Henry Maitles.
Sestina Against Silence
By Allie Kerper
The Gift
By Phoebe Ryrko