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South Africa / Palestine: Applying the lessons

Progressive campaigners for Palestinian rights have increasingly used the term ‘Apartheid’ to characterise Israel’s approach to...

Justice for the miners – Meet the author

Jim Phillips has written an important book about the 1984-85 miners’ strike in Scotland, published by Edinburgh University Press . As...

Discussing Scottish independence and the British state

This Saturday - 14 September - sees an impressive range of spe akers coming together to discuss and debate issues around Scottish...

Modern day indulgences

Cathie Lloyd shows that scepticism about enterprises claiming to be ‘green’ is a crucial attitude for everyone concerned to see positive...

Sub-contracting Conflict

‘Perspectives’ provides a platform for discussion articles and varied points of view. Here, Ronnie Smith draws attention to the...

Middle East contradictions make ‘Two-State Solution’ impossible

A discussion piece from Ronnie Smith. Democratic Left Scotland would be happy to receive other peoples’ views and perspectives on the...

‘Bonds of unity’? The deselection of a Dundee parliamentary hopeful

Mike Arnott recounts an episode when the party machine decided to over-ride Labour Party members’ wishes about who should be the city’s...

Kenya and the struggle against imperialism

There’ll be a very interesting and progressive workshop about the history of progressive struggles in Kenya this Saturday, 24 August,...

When Clydeside workers were winning

The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders struggle of 1971 to 1972 is a justly celebrated instance of effective trade union campaigning and...