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Download Issue Scottish Left Review Issue 79 November/December 2013 £2.00 Comment Scottish Left Review Issue 79 November/December 2013 t is difficult to maintain constitutional Ineutrality at this tail-end of 2013. Of course we will continue to do our best to keep the SLR open as a space for Contents anyone on the Scottish left, a place where they can feel at home and contribute Comment .......................................................2 to a debate that stretches beyond the boundaries of party or constitutional Democracy in writing ....................................4 position. That is our duty as a magazine Jean Urquhart created expressly for that purpose. Solid foundations for change .........................6 But the duty lies not only on us to Michael Keating keep that space open but on all sides to fill that space. Because it can surely not Our share of the future ..................................8 be possible for us to face the desolation Robin McAlpine which lies across Scottish society in the dog-days of this unlucky year without Graveyard or get-together ..........................10 some sort of answer to what lies all Isobel Lindsay around us. Welfare Nation State ...................................12 What answer to Grangemouth? John McInally Facile talk of ‘the need to work together’ is an insult to the collective intelligence. Labour and the trade unions .......................14 All it states is that if we keep the fork Gregor Gall, Richard Leonard, Bob Crow and let others keep the knife, it will be impossible for us to eat on our own. That Real energy answers ...................................18 may not be a bad thing, but someone Andy Cumbers needs to explain why. How is the The logic of conflict .....................................20 capacity for Westminster to offer a loan guarantee of £120m because the Scottish Neil Davidson Parliament doesn’t have the power to do When growth fails us ...................................22 it a convincing answer to the problem Ernest Garcia and James Kelly of that national crisis? We watched as a part of our key national infrastructure Reviews .......................................................25 was bought by an equity company controlled by one man who borrowed Web Review .................................................26 the money to own it. We watched as Kick Up The Tabloids ...................................27 that man, again and again across the UK and internationally, sought to subject Cover and illustrations: Nadia Lucchesi both governments and working men and women to his will. We have seen again [email protected] and again that failure to capitulate to his demands is met with agressive attempts to undermine democracy and sabotage Email: [email protected] the economic wellbeing of the economies Web: www.scottishleftreview.org and societies that created these vast enterprises in the first place. We observed Tel: 0141 424 0042 a decade-long campaign to defeat any Address: Scottish Left Review, 741 Shields Road, Pollokshields, vestiges of industrial democracy which, Glasgow G41 4PL in his eyes, blighted his divine right to run ‘his’ businesses as dictatorships of one. We watched as this culminated in Editorial Committee a coordinated attempt to bring Scotland Malcolm Balfour John McAllion Tom Nairn close to its knees as just another gambit Cat Boyd Robin McAlpine (Editor) Jonathan Shafi in his totalitarian approach to nation and Moira Craig Peter McColl Tommy Sheppard citizen. Then we watched as a defeated Gregor Gall Henry McCubbin Elaine Smith union was - still is - subjected to a vast Isobel Lindsay David Miller Bob Thomson (Convener) smear and hate campaign run by a Gordon Morgan rabidly right-wing media cheered on by a rabidly right-wing government. Printed by Clydeside Press Ltd, 37 High Street, Glasgow G1 1LX How is a £120m bung to this man a response, an answer? How? 2 Grangemouth, the shipyard job losses, continuing austerity; in these dark days for Scottish society, we need answers and not just soundbites We need proper media ownership of outrage that politicians who want to will use it well’ is again fine. Except the laws, proper industrial relations appear ‘progressive’ or compassionate needed power could lie anywhere which legislation, a national strategy on the troop out when needed. They are all takes full sovereign control, so the answer ownership of horrified by the is not ‘where’ but ‘who and how’? So who key industries, a An opinion that sight of ‘hard and how? Before we vote in September stronger position working people next year, explain how Scotland can on the practices provides a reason having to beg be protected from the Jim Ratcliffes of of the equity not to do one for handouts to this world. Explain how we rebuild an ownership model, be able to eat’. industry in our country. Explain how an industrial thing is hopelessly Fine; but how is we challenge the political doctrine of diversification insufficient if it is austerity an answer ‘austerity’ which is nothing more than a strategy to make us to this? We know term for the dismantling of the welfare less reliant on one not matched with an that the economy state. Tell us how these things can be large enterprise, a idea of something is not fixing itself done - this space is open for you; we will finance system that in a way that publish your ideas. makes these things else that can be will end low pay In the meantime, this issue looks at possible. We, in done instead. Tell (virtually none the transformations that could provide our ‘partnership’ of the ‘recovery’ answers to these questions but from the are offered none of us how these things is in industrial perspective of what would happen after these things. Jim can be done - this production independence. It looks at a process of Radcliffe is offered which might give rebuilding post-Yes and explores the free money. space is open for you some reason for potential - and the risks - inherent in that How is this optimism). Yes, process. an answer? Ed Milliband has mentioned ‘living No, that our five writers can write it What answer to Govan and wage’ more recently. But he offers only does not mean it will happen. But it is at shipbuilding? How is a UK industry a marginal tax credit to companies for a least a path, a hint of a way forward. We sector declining before our eyes with limited period if they will only ‘do the must build our decision on possibility. So no remedial action a reason to celebrate decent thing’ and pay the wage. Most let us populate the land of possibility. All ‘partnership’? How do we come to terms won’t, and for the legions of Britons for are welcome. with what is an entirely state-dependent whom the problem is that business which survives on state funding they can’t get enough hours (but only to build weapons) but over or who can’t raise a family by which we seem to have no democratic earning living wage, nothing Scottish Left Review control at all? The voices which shout is proposed. 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Address If we did have any control over our Now, the standard industry there are lots of things we might response to this from the do, from encouraging diversification pro-union left is ‘but Alex to targetting non-military sources Salmond is a bad man and of contracts. But we don’t. It would the SNP is even more right- Tel: certainly make more sense (marginally) wing’. People are free to hold to keep building useless aircraft carriers that opinion if they wish. But E-mail: (which have no purpose but create an opinion that provides a jobs) than to build the useless Trident reason not to do one thing Subscription/Donation replacement (that has no purpose and is hopelessly insufficient if doesn’t create jobs in Britain). The it is not matched with an Date: result of Trident replacement is that we idea of something else that I79 are consigned to sit here and watch as can be done instead. 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