Scotland is facing a real problem of democracy - local democracy

Perhaps only a couple of years away from an indepedence referendum, what will the left do? And what should it do?

Those responsible for the failures continue to leave footprints all over the Scottish political agenda which are entirely out of proportion to the minority position they hold

A few weeks on, is the left viewing the Scottish Election result as more of a threat or more of an opportunity?

Just days after a watershed election many observers are struggling to understand what happened. Perhaps they need to learn about Scottish politics. Well, that certainly caught the attention... Nobody who watches UK politics is in any doubt that something just happened. But what?

One way or another, this feels like a period of change. Perhaps big change. There are perceptible shifts all over the place. The sort of rhetoric about the abuse of power of big business that would have been dismissed as fringe ‘class war’ a couple of years ago is now the language of the Daily Mail (at least intermittently).

In recent years we have seen the British State at work abroad and we think we are familiar with how it operates when it establishes itself in foreign lands (although few of us can really appreciate what the horror of this work looks like abroad).

In the last issue of Scottish Left Review we published a programme of action for starting the transformation of Scotland into a more equitable, more sustainable and more rewarding place to live. The proposals were realistic and in many cases new – and yet predictably the mainstream media ignored it and the UK continues to...

Where to begin? This issue of the Scottish Left Review goes to print in a Britain which has no government - the people have indeed spoken. Unfortunately, this state of affairs is unlikely to last.

With more than ten years of the Scottish Left Review under our belts the Scottish Left Review has been around for long enough to have seen a good many elections – General, Scottish Parliament, European, local. The Scottish Left Review does not and will never advocate voting for any specific party, or indeed against voting...