Saturday 29th June 2013, 2pm. Augustine United Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. “The Counting of Votes is Only the Final Ceremony of a Long Process” – Antonio Gramsci We believe that the political situation in Scotland offers a real opportunity…

by Willie Thompson   Eric Hobsbawm, who died at the beginning of October aged 95, was the last representative of the remarkable generation of Marxist historians who comprised the Communist Party Historians’ Group of the late forties and early fifties.…

David Purdy In what follows, I take up three of the issues raised by Stuart Fairweather in his recent posting Two Years of Crisis: What Potential for Change: the prolonged economic depression induced by the financial crash of 2007-8; the current…

The crisis is causing pain and major uncertainty.  At Westminster the electoral response to this was the establishment of the Con/Dem Coalition. Their policies have added to the pain and to the questions. In Scotland we’ve seen the election of…

 A background paper for the AGM of Democratic Left Scotland, 22nd September 2012 Middle Reading Room, Edinburgh University Students Union, Teviot Row David Purdy This paper originated as part of an even longer one dealing with the proposal to relaunch…

Now available for download here.   “We promised in the last issue of Perspectives to “raise the questions and tease out the answers” in the independence referendum debate.  Of course, with a projected voting date of autumn 2014, we have…

The Democratic Left Scotland AGM will be on the 22nd September 2012 at 2pm in Teviot Row House, Bristo Square Edinburgh. We will be having a discussion about how we do politics in a world beset by global economic crisis, in which democratic…

by Davie Laing Regular readers of Perspectives will have noted our reports on aspects of Scottish schools’ educational curriculum in recent years. Larry Cheyne drew our attention to the reform of the Higher History syllabus to require the teaching and…

  “Another Road for Europe” invites civil society organisations, social movements, networks, Trade Unions and political forces to a one-day discussion at the European Parliament in Brussels on the ways out of the European crisis. The “Another Road for Europe”…

Morag Parnell drew our attention to this video. Because of all the misinformation from the establishment on low level radiation dosage this is an important study for all of us but particularly for radiation workers and small children.