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The scandalous dereliction of Glasgow’s land and buildings needs to be challenged
If the city is to address its housing problems, it cannot merely rely on landlords to co-operate in the public good, says PAUL SWEENEY
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
GLASGOW has been Scotland’s largest metropolis for almost two centuries.
It is a city with an extraordinary legacy of fine Victorian and Edwardian architecture, but due to an unacceptable capitulation to market forces and a lack of capacity in local government to address the emerging structural issues facing these buildings, it is a legacy increasingly at risk.
The “gilded age” prior to the outbreak of the first world war that bequeathed such a handsome cityscape saw Glasgow grow to become the fourth-largest city in Europe — generating extraordinary civic investment in public buildings and infrastructure.
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Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
The work done by Glasgow’s local campaigners and volunteers is truly inspiring, but it cannot stop at picking up the pieces of an irresponsible government, writes MAYA McGOWAN