Category Archives: 2012 spring

Prem Sikka We live in hard times. With rising unemployment and a government sponsored austerity drive there is little economic relief on the horizon. Successive governments have depleted the purchasing power of the low and middle income earners and thus … Continue reading →

Vince Mills What is nationalism for? If you believe that is a question that requires an answer, you are probably not a nationalist. Nationalists believe that nations are ‘natural’ expressions of a common history or culture, or ethnicity or shared … Continue reading →

Stephen Low It is being asserted – with varying degrees of confidence and plausibility that the most progressive outcome in the referendum would be the inclusion of and support for some sort enhanced devolution ‘devo max’. This is at least … Continue reading →

Lynn Henderson 2011 will be remembered as an historic year for the labour and trade union movement. We brought millions on to the streets of London to march for the alternative when doubters said we wouldn’t. We garnered mass public … Continue reading →

Mike Kirby Discussions about democracy and where power and decision making ought to lie are very much in vogue at the moment. Shamefully, but unsurprisingly, Local Government is little mentioned. This does Local Government a double disservice – it assumes … Continue reading →

Cllr Gordon Munro The United Nations has designated 2012 ‘International Year of Cooperatives’. This focus could not have come at a better time with unbridled capitalism needing subsidises from the State and the state in turn asking workers to take … Continue reading →

Jorge Aliaga After a hard fought Presidential election campaign in July 2011, what should have been an opportunity for the left in Peru has resulted instead in a Government leaning more and more to the right. Jorge Aliaga gives his … Continue reading →

Drew Smith MSP ‘Social justice must be at heart of Labour’s fight back’ Johann Lamont’s decision to appoint a Shadow Minister for Social Justice is a clear sign of her determination to hold the SNP government to account for their … Continue reading →

Jan Pietrasik This spring will see the first ever major exhibition of contemporary Cuban Art to be seen in Scotland. Working in partnership with Cuba Solidarity Campaign and the Visual Arts Council in Cuba, Beyond the Frame is organised by … Continue reading →

Kors Allan Do we need an independence referendum when there is yet again a rabidly right-wing government down at Westminster? Alternatively, does the fact that there are more pandas than Tory MPs in Scotland tell us nothing about how most … Continue reading →