Scotland's magazine of discussion, debate and dissent on the left is well worth subscribing to ...
Taking out a subscription to the refreshed Scottish Left Review, now edited by Cailean Gallagher, with its clean and clear layout (courtesy designer Mitchell F Gillies), would be a good resolution with which to start 2024 (if you're not already one of the bi-monthly magazine's regular readers).
Articles in the latest issue illustrate SLR's combination of promoting well-grounded and long-standing progressive causes with evidence of real connections to lively social movements.
Gallagher's approach seems to be to organise each issue's material around a couple of key themes, complemented by additional articles on other current issues and reviews. Aspects of Scotland's solidarity with the Palestinian people is the lead theme in the current issue. There's a feature on a photographic exhibition 'We Stand with Gaza' at the Trade Unions in Communities Hub in Edinburgh, and Jack Murray writes on his experience of living for a month in West Bank communities as an activist with the International Solidarity Movement.
A substantial collection of articles explore pressing issues in healthcare and the challenges facing the National Health Service. Amongst the stand-alone pieces are Monica Lennon MSP's clear call for making ecocide an international crime, and proposing that Scotland's parliament pass legislation to this end, and Jack Ferguson's thorough and thoughtful of Naomi Klein's latest book, with sharp insights into the causes and consequences of reactionary conspiracy theories. Highly recommended!
Published 3 January 2024.