Issue 56
Jan - Feb 2010
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In her email sending us her article on the state of politics in Iceland, Birgitta Jónsdóttir signs off ‘love and rage’. This is a greeting from a country which took to the streets banging pots and pans to demand that the neoliberal government which had crashed the country while enriching its bankers was removed. It […]
A small country with politicians mesmerised by dodgy financiers? Birgitta Jónsdóttir’s explanation of events in Iceland should be read closely by Scots
Tiny Kox argues that a fear of moving away from the neoliberal consensus left the Netherlands with a government that doesn’t reflect the views of the Dutch
In an extensive piece of research, Margaret and Jim Cuthbert discover not only that many of the criticisms of PFI have turned out to be correct but that the mistakes are being repeated by the current Scottish Government
Tom Nairn argues that the political return of the Scottish nation is a perfectly comprehensible expression of trends embracing the whole globe
Daniel Gray examines the significance of the popular response to the publication of his well-received study of Scots volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
UN Human Rights Treaties can be used to establish public expenditure priorities, argues Carole Ewart
Jim Phillips shows how demands for control of the Scottish economy drove the devolution campaign. What now?
It’s time to shake off forty years of establishment manipulation says Andy Anderson
The State in Capitalist Society by Ralph Miliband (republished by www.merlinpress.co.uk £16.95) Ralph Miliband was a major figure in the marxist revival which became known as the New Left in the 1960s. A founder of New Left Review and the Socialist Register, the State in Capitalist Society (1969) remains a key work of modern marxist […]
In Issue 56 we launch a year-long look at other small countries and regions which have similarities to Scotland to explore if there are lessons Scotland can learn – and to try to do something to bridge the political isolation that Scotland suffers in international terms. In this issue we have an analysis of the state of politics in Iceland by party group chairman for the Movement, a member of the Icelandic Parliament, activist and poet Birgitta Jónsdóttir. We also have an overview of left politics in Holland by Tiny Kox, Senator for the Socialist Party in the First Chamber of the Dutch States-General.
“Princes and priests soon saw an enemy in the press. Type was in their opinion the most serious form that lead could take…. The rich classes – otherwise the conspiring classes – shut out as far as they could all knowledge of their doings, alleging that their object was to prevent the dissemination of ‘heresy […]
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