Issue 55
Nov - Dec 2009
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In this issue we are going to try to delve down below the top-level problems on which everyone now has an opinion and see if it is possible to draw out some of the deeper, fundamental problems of the way we live in the 21st century to see if, in fact, we can clean up our mess after all.
Neil Davidson argues that it’s not money that got us into this mess - it was the myths we bought with it
Isobel Lindsay looks at how ‘work’ is now as much a part of the neoliberal ideology of control as it is about producing things
Alan McKinnon shows that the UK and US ‘defence’ policy is in fact a ‘projection of power’ policy with the primary purpose of defending the commercial interests of transnational companies
John Barker shows that the ideological ‘consultants’ who distort public policy are not only unaccountable, they appear to damage everything they touch
Neoliberalism is a giant marketing ploy, and we’ve almost all swallowed it. Robin McAlpine argues that we need to face up to our complicity if we want to change it.
Mark Hirst argues that Lockerbie lies are vital to maintain the integrity of Scottish legal system - and shows that lies are indeed being told
Bob Thomson looks at the legacy of the late Bill Spiers
The Scottish Living Wage Campaign has been in existence for nearly two years and is now beginning to have a real impact. In this article Peter Kelly looks at what has been achieved and how the campaign can continue to grow even in recession.
Tom Nairn discusses past, present and future of Anglo-British identity
We look at the underlying problems which have caused the crises we are now living through, with analysis from Neil Davidson, Isobel Lindsay, Alan McKinnon, John Barker and Robin McAlpine. Also Mark Hirst on Lockerbie, Bob Thomson on Bill Spiers, Peter Kelly on a living wage andTom Nairn on English identity.
An Anarchist’s Story: The Life of Ethel MacDonald Chris Dolan, Birlinn 2009, 224 pages, £9.99, ISBN-13: 978-1841586854 When the BBC Film An Anarchist’s Story: The Life of Ethel Macdonald was released in 2006 it came as a bolt from the blue, bringing to light two events, both greatly hidden from history. The first was the […]
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