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Delighted to annouce our new issue, 'Taking Back the Land', is now online. Subscribe today for £21 to get six issues to your door.
New writing on land, rent and class struggle.
Reviews of books by
@_isaacrose
,
@Alex_Niven
&
@blackleftaf
And much more.
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Both the editorial committee of the Scottish Left Review magazine and the project board of the Jimmy Reid Foundation support the right to a referendum:
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What started as a trickle is becoming a flood of student disruption at graduations across Scotland.
Bosses' hands are tied as clips of their own live streams go viral.
They learnt their lesson after attempts to censor a protest at Stirling backfired:
📢 PAY YOUR WORKERS 📢
This amazing video from the ECA graduations today show that students know what needs to be done to solve this dispute 💪
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It is with great sadness that we heard of the death of Neil Davidson today - he was one of the few organic intellectuals of our generation, making pioneering contributions to studying Scottish society and Scottish nationalism (amongst others). He was a regular contributor to SLR.
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Scotland cannot be a full democracy and equal society that can properly reckon with its colonial past until it abolishes its monarchy, writes Reuben Duffy ahead of
@OurRepublicScot
's
#Coronation
rally on Calton Hill
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Delighted to announce our latest issue is now online.
🧨Full year of print issues for just £21
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The rally for Palestinian prisoners in Edinburgh, in unity with over 10,000 Palestinians held in Israeli captivity.
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May Day greetings from the Scottish Left Review! We inherit the past and we build the future together…
#MayDay2023
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"Every bullet that is fired, every bomb that is dropped, has to be made somewhere; wherever that is, it can be resisted." Trade Unionists for Palestine: a research project and resource base to support unionised workers resisting the arms trade with Israel.
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As the
@scottishgreens
pursue a formal cooperation arrangement with
@theSNP
, have a read of
@MaggieChapman
's article in our latest issue 👇
Has the left won the party?
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Proud to produce an issue addressing the past and future of the workers' struggle in Scotland 🚩
And proud that all delegates at this year's
@ScottishTUC
Congress got their copy of the issue
#STUC24
With thanks to
@UniteScotland
for supporting our print costs
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Our latest edition is now accessible online 👇
Subscribe to receive your hard copy today! 🗞️
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‘The battle for our buses – get on board the double-decker for the fight for our future’
Progress is possible writes Ellie Harrison of
@GetGlesgaMoving
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Delighted to announce our latest issue is now online.
Trade union leaders, activists, MSPs and poets explore our movement's struggle for dignity and freedom.
🎈Get this issue and 5 more to your door for just £21
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When
@LudoCaminati
showed solidarity with
@UCU
at graduation he was 'mistakenly' censored - then a clip of his protest went viral. It wasn't the first time
@StirUni
stifled his support for
@UCU_Stirling
.
The story of his action and the slogan it created:
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Our new magazine is now online!
Ft scenes from strike season by
@RozFoyer
,
@ambward
,
@paulmalgrati
,
@pefrase
,
@MccailColl
& more in our
#STUC23
special plus essays on migrant solidarity, Dundee history & Ukrainian land
Subscribe now
But that's not all⬇️
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"Their class is powerful and well-funded, but we have the advantage of numbers. When we are educated, agitated and organised we are more powerful than they dare to imagine."
@ScottishTUC
is confronting the right with education, writes
@RozFoyer
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It is time for a 'left flood politics'. In the coming years, democracy and mobilisation will form part of the broader struggle against what
@KaiHeron
calls capitalist catastrophism: capital's powerlessness to control its ecologically destructive dynamics🦺
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Scotland holds a special place, they tell us, in the hearts of House of Windsor. Protests like these make it difficult to say the feeling's mutual.
Reuben Duffy writes ahead of
@OurRepublicScot
's protest against the Caledonain Coronation at 1pm
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‘A marriage not made in heaven: marking the SNP-Scottish Greens coalition scorecard’
Stella Rooney critically assesses what the parliamentary pact is about and what is has delivered and not delivered.
@stellarossssa
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"John Maclean played a significant role in the Scottish preparations for the Easter Rising." Fascinating essay about Maclean's support for Irish rebels, the Scottish Citizen Army debate, the IRA in Scotland & more, by
@stephencoyle19
& based on a text by
@eddireader
's great uncle
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“Joining your union is the key to rebalancing an economy tilted in favour of your boss” ✊
Eve Livingston’s important new book is reviewed in our latest edition 📚
@eve_rebecca
@betterthanzero
@ScottishTUC
#backpages
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"The vulnerable were failed because social care is fragmented, privatised and underfunded"
More in issue 117 on the
#Covid19UK
crisis from
@AllysonPollock
and
@Louhardingedgar
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What was the fire that kept the education pickets so strong this winter? Four lessons from four fighters in
@EISFela
@_EHSSU_
@EISUnion
&
@ucustandrews
#STUC23
#Fourfights
#fightingforFE
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Our new issue, 'Steadfast with Palestine', is now online.
With writing on:
🇵🇸 Solidarity from East Edinburgh to the West Bank
⚕️Art and play in the NHS in its 75th year
🚁The history of highland healthcare
⚖️The future of juryless trials
And more!
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On the centenary of his death, what is John Maclean's symbolic use for the 21st century Scottish Left?
This was the question that shaped the work of the John MacLean Centerary Committee, formed by
@Henbell
@sukisangh
@JoeySimons8
@ewangibbs
@seanbaillie9
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In the struggle for socialism, the reward is the deepest kind of collective pride.
Our new issue explores paths to a different and better life, from Allende's Chile in 1973 to Scotland in 2023:
Subscribe for £21 to get this issue and 5 more to your door
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A bold new mural in the Calton in Glasgow honours one of the earliest recorded strikes in Scottish history, and supports the strikes of today.
Our editor interviews Claire Peden and
@mackcolours
on the mural in our latest issue available online now.
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Our latest edition is now online! It’s a bumper edition filled with contributions from trade union comrades and looking ahead to the council elections!
Contributors include
@RozFoyer
@kittycatboyd
@mary_senior_
@ProfJMitchell
@stellarossssa
🗞
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Text and slides of Aamer Anwar's (
@AamerAnwar
) brilliant 2019 Jimmy Reid Foun-dation annual lecture on poverty and injustice. As Eileen Reid (
@ReidEileen1
) said on the night, her father, Jimmy Reid, would have been very proud of Aamer:
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OUT IN APRIL!!! 📕
A New Scotland: Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society
Edited by Gregor Gall
@leftacademic
and with contentions from a rich variety of Scottish Left Review contributors and more!
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In 1982, workers at Wallacetown Engineering in Ayr initiated a lock-in against the wishes of union officials when General Electric tried to fire their branch convenor and dozens of other workers🪧
Alex Baird was that convenor. Here he tells the story.
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Coverage in Sunday Herald of Chris Stephens MP writing in Scottish Left Review on the case for a Workers' Bill of Rights:
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110 years ago, the NHS's Highland predecessor was formed, bringing state-funded healthcare and infrastructre to communities that had been scattered by famine and clearances.
@FeargusMurray
tells its story.
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The Scottish Government has sent a clear and concise message to working class students: we do not care enough to intervene in a college dispute, like we did with the schools.
@StudentActionFE
is fighting with
@EISFela
for the future of further education
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“Knowledge is necessary but power is absolutely essential for protecting workers”
@mary_senior_
explains an alliance of staff and students is the surest foundation for protecting higher education!
@ucu
@UCUScotland
🎓
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Our latest edition is now available!! 💻 🗞
Contributions from
@leftacademic
@LynnFaeLeith
@lindasomervill
@williesully
@unisonscot
@unison
and more…
Access online or order your copy here 👇
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The latest film from
@KenLoachSixteen
is a tale of the hostility that grows when collectivism is undermined. When community worker Laura brings donated supplies to Syrian refugees, she's confronted by resentment. Hope lies in revival of collective spirit.
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‘We have devolution from Westminster but not from Holyrood: Scotland as a centralised state’
James Mitchell decries the lack of local power in local government and advocates radical reform.
@ProfJMitchell
@COSLA
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Download our latest issue here 👇
It's our annual
@scottishtuc
congress themed edition with contributions from
@rozfoyer
@kittycatboyd
@larryflanagan
@mary_senior_
@PCS_scotland
@unisonscot
@uniteScotland
@eisunion
and more!
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Everyone knows Glasgow's public transport system is way behind in terms of public control. 🚌🚏
The North of England puts Strathclyde to shame, and its campaigning is inspiring
@BetterBusesSPT
and
@GetGlesgaMoving
, writes
@ellieharrison
.
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"It’s no wonder the left has lost so much ground as we engage with the working class from on high"
@seantduffy
reviews
@lokiscottishrap
's acclaimed
#PovertySafari
in our recent edition.
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May Day Greetings to all, wherever you are in Scotland or the world. The Internationale unites the human race 🚩
Our latest issue is dedicated workers’ struggle for good wages, dignity, and genuine freedom, whoever they are, wherever they come from.
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‘It’s no game: Playing the cost-of-living fightback both home and away’
💪 The
@ScottishTUC
’s
@RozFoyer
in our latest edition on the role trade unions can and will play as society begins to feel the pinch!
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New on the Jimmy Reid Foundation website: the full text of TUC general secretary, Frances O’Grady’s, Jimmy Reid annual memorial lecture on Thurs 27 Sept:
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When the Labour Deputy Leader said Scotland 'won't need' the powers of employment law, she somewhat missed the point of devolution 🤦🏽♂️
@UnisonDave
on
@ReidFoundation
's detailed plan for putting employment-related laws in Scottish hands
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Catch up with our latest issue with contributions from a range of comrades!
@stellarossssa
@kennymacaskill
@tommykane3
@mollymep
@lilian_macer
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Forthcoming in the July/August 2018 edition of Scottish Left Review which focuses on analysing the SNP Sustainable Growth Commission report (out this week in print and next week on line):
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'On the union frontline in a pandemic'
Stephen Smellie recounts the pressures and learning curve to become a health and safety expert and highlights trade unions' vital role
@stephenfs
@unisonscot
#covid19
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Grahame Smith reflects fondly on some tumultuous times as he bows out from leading the STUC
@ScottishTUC
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Breaking news today that buses in Strathclyde are set to be brought under public control. Is the quiet revolution in public transport finally on its way to Scotland? 🚌
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A powerful new documentary
@Freedom_to_Run
tells the story of Palestinian running group
@RightToMovement
and a Glasgow group as they train for and run the Palestinian and Edinburgh marathons.
Director
@Crstiyy
tells the story behind the film's production.
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📣 All articles from our latest issue are now available online!
🎓 Our theme ‘Scotland is a School’ takes a look at the history and revival of radical education and much more…
☀️ Read at your leisure!
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"Creating a socialist Europe will not be advanced by dismantling the existing, collective social and democratic gains achieved by the European workers movement through the EU"
@GeorgeKerevan
's take on
#Brexit
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A significant step on the path towards public buses set out by
@GetGlesgaMoving
and
@ellieharrison
:
'We need the Scottish Government to properly empower and fund public bodies to deliver the world-class, fully-integrated public transport networks we need.'
Breaking: Transport bosses in Strathclyde have voted in favour of local bus franchising - the first step in a long road to returning Glasgow bus services to public ownership.
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Have you caught up with our latest issue?
Ahead of May Day celebrations, our editorial reflects on the struggles and challenges Scotland faces. We’re building a radical hearth for the Scottish left…join us!
🗞️ Read
⬇️ Subscribe
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"They want us in jail because we have a problem with police hierarchy and far-right movements."
Jennifer Debs speaks to Javitxu Aijon, one of four anti-fascists imprisoned this month for protesting against far-right Vox party in Spain. From
@heckle_scot
.
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Our new issue, SCOTLAND IS A SCHOOL, is now in print.
Featuring writing on the revival of radical education across the nation.
Subscribe and get every issue to your door before it goes online.
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The critical shortage of social housing is the root problem of the housing emergency declared by the Scottish Government.
More below from leading campaigners in the struggle to save the Wyndford🏙️
The Scottish Government has declared a national housing emergency, but 600 social homes are still set to be demolished in Glasgow.
The struggle to save the Wyndford is central to the fight against the housing crisis, argue Sean and Caz.
#Skotia
|
@SaveTheWyndford
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This is the story of one community's campaign to prevent the country’s largest ‘social’ landlord from demolishing a housing estate in Maryhill, Glasgow. 1/6
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Our latest edition is now online!! 🗞
We look at recent power shifts across the union movement, Scottish politics and beyond as well as taking a look back at
#cop26
With contributions from
@RozFoyer
@UnisonDave
@DrEwanKerr
@SWACEO
and more 👇
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During the Blair years, adult education lost much of its radical momentum and became a means of personal advancement. But across the country, left education for collective gain is undergoing a revival.
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'To gain and hold a popular majority, the Yes movement needs to be a left-led, left-leaning coalition fighting for what we are for rather than running a narrow campaign focused on the things we are against.'
@CeeGraham1
on SNP strategy post-Sturgeon
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Have you caught up on our latest edition yet?
💻 read online
📰 order your hard copy or subscribe!
Scotland’s best re(a)d
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NAE PASARAN The Scots who defied Pinochet - FINISHING FUNDS
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'A fight for our freedom, as well as yours!'
80 years ago, April 19 1943: residents of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw refuse to surrender to Nazi police, who burn the ghetto to the ground.
@HenryMaitles
writes of the humanity & hope that rose from the ashes
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As university staff continue to fight for the future, the marking and assessment boycott is beginning to work. It is bringing new energy to local branches and networks. It is also bringing results.
@cat_wayland
@ucuedinburgh
@UCU_Edin_PGPD
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'Putting Scottish Labour back on track?' 🌹
@tommykane3
on how
@scottishlabour
can revitalise and resolve its constitutional "carry-on"
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"My message to members across
@ScottishLabour
then is this. We can organise for a serious socialist future, but you have to get involved."
@CMochan
MSP (and
@LabourCfS
🌹 member) sets out a strong message her piece in the latest Scottish Left Review
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Launch of ‘Municipal socialism for modern Scotland: local public enterprise for the common good’ by Dave Watson (UNISON Scotland) in Scottish Parl on 30/5/18 at 2pm:
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Politics faded to grey under Nicola Sturgeon. The consequence was often a default to neoliberalism.
Her legacy of government-by-consensus must now be challenged by questions of ownership, class, sovereignty & democratic engagement, writes
@MccailColl
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"Our priority must be building our collective strength, empowering workers in every community through trade councils & union branches, & creating the space for workers to organise, collectivise & fight."
@RozFoyer
in SLR
Pre-lockdown. Still relevant.👇
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@NeilGray00
@gesa_helms
@Benjamin_Fallon
@emmabalkind
@00arika00
@hereandnowscot
@Radical_Glasgow
@kirstenrlloyd
@JoeySimons8
@MuteMagazine
A privilege to publish. Leigh and Variant have been very much in mind as we've worked on bringing cultural, critical, radical thinking to the heart of the magazine this year.
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Scotland's first private school strike at Hutchesons' Grammar was a triumph.
Now the drive to unionise is spreading through the private school sector. 🔥
An
@EISUnion
rep writes on the mounting pressure
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Forthcoming article in Scottish Left Review (up on line next week) by Colin Fox on the SNP's Sustainable Growth Commission:
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Was class absent from the
#cop26
debate?
Colin Fox looks at some practical steps socialists in Scotland can take to counter the climate emergency.
@colinfoxssp
✊🌱🌍
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Losing our communities of native Gaelic speakers would be a crime and a loss to us all, but recent threats to cut the
@bordnagaidhlig
have galvanised the grassroots resistance. Everyone should get behind it.
@TMacailpein
on why the Gaelic crisis matters
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This is the report commissioned by UNISON Scotland (
@UNISONScotLGvt
) from the Jimmy Reid Foundation, sister organisation of SLR:
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New Scottish Left Review (Jan/Feb 2019) magazine now up online for free viewing, leading on The Just Transition:
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There's some brilliant work going on in North Ayrshire, building a fairer economy, rolling back the ills of neoliberalism from a local perspective. Council Leader
@jcullinane86
on Community Wealth Building
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For 65 years following the creation of the NHS, life expectancy in Scotland consistently improved. Since 2012, that trend has gone into reverse.
What's going on?
@Gerrymccartney1
digs into life expectency trends in Scotland in the NHS's 75th year
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Breaking, breaking – this just in: Holyrood can change things!
Tracey Dalling of
@unisonscot
sets out a clear list of ways Scottish Govt could raise more 💰 in government. So far
@theSNP
have turned a blind eye to these…
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'Fascism does not arrive all at once. It steps along under the cloak of a grotesque civility. Rights and laws change bit by bit. Who can do which job? Who can live where? Who is considered fit?'
@HamishKallin
reviews a story of two Jewish families.
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Coverage of forthcoming article in Scottish Left Review (out next week) by Labour MSP, Carol Mochan, in the Herald today:
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Nae pasaran! Solidarity with hundreds rallying against racism at Erskine today. Emma Òr attended a counter-fascist demo on the same spot earlier this year, and wrote about the changing face of the far right she encountered. The left is facing them down.
#ErskineSaysYes
These are all the local residents who joined today's 400-strong rally outside the Muthu hotel in Erskine by
@ScottishTUC
and
@SUTRScotland
saying
#RefugeesWelcome
Many more than have ever joined the hateful Nazi Homeland-led protests (who were a no show today)
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Our latest issue is now available online and in print! 📰
It's a bumper
#scottishelections21
edition with contributions from
@ScottishTUC
@lindasomervill
@UnisonDave
@shascotland
@ProfJMitchell
@GerryHassan
@CMochan
@MaggieChapman
@ChrisStephens
and more!
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@thecommongreen
@MikeDanson1
Mike Danson and Craig Dalzell provide that chapter on land ownership and community development in 'A New Scotland: Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society'
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We launched our latest issue ‘Carbon and its Consequences’ in Edinburgh last week.
You can subscribe to the magazine, or read it online, here:
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Could
@theSNP
’s contempt for local government be to
@AlbaParty
’s gain?
Kenny MacAskill issues a rallying cry for those dispirited and disillusioned with the “submissive and subservient” SNP local politicians
@KennyMacAskill
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✊ “Down but not out and still around to keep on fighting”
🌹 Cllr Joe Cullinane (
@jcullinane86
) explains why Labour lost but is proud of its achievements in North Ayrshire
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Our latest issue is now online and free to read! 📰
With offerings from
@stephenfs
@eastlothianmp
@Neilsocialist
@PeterMcColl
@mmachch
and more!
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Glasgow has produced many great films. Ratcatcher, screening now at
@glasgowfilm
, is one of them.
Will the outcry about the Londonisation of Poor Things spur more filmmakers to tell our stories? They would, writes Rory MacNeish, if the industry allowed.
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There has been an unrelenting attack on the left as being antisemitic. It is an attempt to discredit those of us on the left who make legitimate criticisms of Israeli policy or Zionism as a political ideology, or who call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
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Scottish writers demand the release of
@freedom_theatre
artists taken hostage in Jenin.
"We call on our representatives to demand the immediate release of our colleagues, and an end to the military occupation and its targeting of artists, journalists and writers in Palestine."
Over 100 🏴 Scottish playwrights and theatre writers have signed an open letter condemning recent attacks on
@freedom_theatre
of Jenin. Please share/support
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Glasgow is rallying for Gaza with speaker after speaker saying it's time for relentless direct action. Read
@Pal_action
explain their Scottish targets and tactics in this interview:
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The defeated miners’ strike of 1984/5 is often depicted as a final blow from which communities like Fife never recovered. But a new narrative about our coal communities is possible - one inspired by Gramsci, Stuart Hall, bell hooks and Raymond Williams.
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🗞 our latest edition is now online!
🖊 contributions from
@RozFoyer
@jcullinane86
@ionafyfe
@GeorgeKerevan
@jw365
@AlexRowleyFife
@ScottishTUC
@GJMunro26
💻 free to access online:
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Ronan Scott reviews
@DrRJChapman
's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism in this long read on communism, imperialism and the psyche.
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🍽️ This year, community activists and Unite campaigners in Glasgow joined forces to eradicate £300,000 of school meal debt across the city. Now they are demanding free school meals for every child.
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