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125 issues of Scottish Left Review
Editor GREGOR GALL looks back at a record 21 years of continuous publication and critically assesses what impact this independent socialist journal has had on Scottish politics so far
STEPHEN ARNELL looks at some of the notorious political corruption cases from British history
ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
ARTHUR WEST surveys the achievements of the Scottish campaign against South African apartheid and how we can draw on them to fight a rising far right
As the US marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, the People’s World Editorial Collective argues that the real legacy of 1776 lies not in official celebrations but in centuries of popular struggles to make democracy a reality for all
THE Scottish Left Review magazine has reached a significant milestone with its 125th September/October 2021 issue. In doing so, we have outlasted any other left magazine published in Scotland in the post-war period.
Radical Scotland, which emerged out of the SNP’s left-wing ’79 group, lasted just 51 issues between 1982 and 1991.
We were founded in 2000 by veteran UCS work-in leader and former communist, Jimmy Reid, as his last political project.
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