Issue 99
This Edition examines how we address climate change before it’s too late, and it’s action stations for 8 June! Please support the SLR by taking out a paying subscription. Just click on the ‘join us’ button above. SLR Issue 99 MayJune 2017
Issue 99
Last Chance
May – Jun 2017
Editorial: action stations for 8 June
May calling a snap election is driven by her sense of opposition weakness, firing the equivalent of a volley from heavy field guns against Corbyn and Labour in particular.
Energy consultations and election concerns
Gordon Morgan surveys the possibilities in the current energy consultations.
No economic case for fracking in Scotland
Penny Cole says the maths only adds up for INEOS.
Progressive revolution in energy?
Michael O’Brien says we can act locally in order to act globally.
Post-carbon transition
Andy Cumbers says examples in Germany show the way forward.
Climate change and losing your pension
Why climate change might make you lose your pension.
Tectonic plates shifting again?
Pat Kelly outlines the primary contours and questions existing assumptions.
Not a terrible troika
Bob Fotheringham says the left can be discerning in its choices over the general election, Brexit and Scottish independence.
Economic fake news on Scottish economy
Andy Anderson uncovers some discomforting ‘truths’ in search of the truth
Realising the economic potential of the 99%
Mike Danson provides an in-depth analysis of the Scottish economy.
Financial masters V governments
Joshua Banerjee says governments need to reassert their control over transnational financial markets.
‘I, Daniel Blake’ is care in the community
Keith Stoddart explains how to put on a show.
Automation: friend or foe?
Sarah Collins looks at the implications of new technology for work.
Solidarity with the Kurds
Stephen Smellie reports on the background to intimidation of Kurds in Scotland.
Criticising Israel and fighting antisemitism
Henry Maitles is a Jewish anti-racist and Professor of Education at the University of the West of Scotland.
Gramsci and Scotland revisited
Ray Burnett reprises his role as a cheerleader for Antonio Gramsci in Scotland.
Let’s make no mistake on Trump
Paul Malgrati continues our critical examination of the Trump phenomenon.
Update from the Jimmy Reid Foundation
News, events, publications and donations please!
Book Review
Sean Sheehan reviews ' Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets' by Todd McGowan.
Book Review
Colin Darroch reviews 'Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders'.
Book Review
A Wealthier, Fairer Scotland: The Political Economy of Constitutional Change, ed. Michael Keating, Edinburgh University Press, £14.99 paperback, £75.00 hardback ISBN 9781474416436 Reviewed by Robin Jones ‘The true way to give the Scots more control over their future,’ wrote Margaret Thatcher in the Scotsman, is ‘to cut back what government spends and controls, leaving more […]
VLADIMIR McTAVISH’S KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
Vladimir McTavish reflects on the General Election, Independence, Press and Media Coverage and Tory Rule.