Issue 90
It's super Corbyn! What does Labour's new leader mean for the left in Scotland?
Issue 90
Nov – Dec 2015
Download PDFIt's super Corbyn! What does Labour's new leader mean for the left in Scotland?
Ninety, not out
John McDonnell calls for the winds of change to blow away cobwebs of the old politics
Martyn Cook and Tommy Kane provide an anatomy of Corbyn’s challenge
Laying out her step plan, Lesley Brennan says Jez achieved the impossible so why can’t Kez?
Doubting whether Corbyn will turn around Scottish Labour, Daniel Kenealy nonetheless sees a way forward.
Tom Mills argues the media has meted out special treatment for the ‘enemy inside’
Phil McGarry and Keith Stoddart welcome the Corbyn advance but worry about duplication of efforts
Eric Shaw looks at the challenges of leadership
Carole Ewart looks at what needs to be done to make human rights effective
We are pleased to reprint summaries of the debate between Foster and Davidson from the recent ‘Class and nation in contemporary Scotland’ conference in Glasgow in September this year
Sarah Collins writes a letter from America after a recent trip there
Jim Slaven says opening up union political funds to reflect diversity will make them effective
Will Dinan examines Scottish government proposals on regulating lobbying
Peter Lomas argues for a Europe of citizens not spivs and speculators
Leslie Mitchell says the very basis of the BBC offends the Tories
Davy Brockett discusses increasing engagement with Scottish Left Review
A worrying political consensus exists over our public services
Chris Sharpe says xenophobia knows the price of everything and the worth of nothing
Margaret and Jim Cuthbert argue they’re not much more than cheap labour for unskilled sectors
Reviewed by Finlay Smith
Reviewed by Gregor Gall
Several weeks into his leadership of the Labour Party, it is still far too early to assess what impact, if any, Jeremy Corbyn has made on all but one person in Scotland.