Issue 59
Jul - Aug 2010
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Whatever way you look at it, 2010 has been a bad year for the left. Firstly there was more than enough evidence by the end of last year that not only had the bad guys gotten away with ruining the global economy, they had quickly converted their own crimes into an indictment against those who are blameless.
John McAllion of the SSP and Gordon Morgan of Solidarity debate the path to bringing a fragmented Scottish left together - and hope for a ‘movement of movements’
Vince Mills sees no easy route to change in a Scottish Labour Party with a complacent leadership
Kevin Williamson argues that the SNP holds some aces – if it can play them properly
Greens find it too easy to resort to opposition to policies which are harmful to the environment, argues Peter McColl. If they are going to make a breakthrough they are going to have to sell a more radical agenda.
Gordon McKay argues that trade unions have no option but to stick with Labour
There is a very real possibility that any campaign against the cuts in Scotland will be undermined by a divided civic sector. New leadership is needed, argues Isobel Lindsay
Carole Ewart discusses the establishment of a human rights consortium in Scotland - and what that means in the context of a UK government hostile to the Human Rights Act
Henry McCubbin looks at the implications for Europe of the Greek crisis - and what it means for a vision of a progressive European Union
Broonland Christopher Harvie (Verso 2010), ISBN-13: 978-1844674398, 224 pp., £8.99 Fiddled statistics on employment and public debt, catastrophic distance-learning projects, ditto for computerisation schemes, raids on pensions funds, selling off gold cheap, mud-wrestling with Tony Blair, yet bankrolling his delusions. Taxes that are baffling but real, tax credits that are baffling but illusory. Programmes cutting […]
Our theme this edition is a comment on the outcome of the General Election – but what do the parties think of their own positions in this regard? Their own web sites give us an insight to their self opinions. Firstly the Lib Dems in Scotland appear to be very pleased at making the world […]
ELECTION PROBE AS VOTE FOR LIB DEMS TURNS OUT NOT TO BE WASTED AS PROMISED