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Scottishleftreview Issue 12 September/October 2002 scottishleftreview Issue 12 September/October 2002 Issue 9 March/April 2002 scottishleftreview comment Issue 11 July/August 2002 A journal of the left in Scotland brought about since the formation of the Scottish Parliament in July 1999 his is the second anniversary issue of the Scottish TLeft Review. We started the magazine two years ago to provide a space in which people on the left in Scotland Contents could explore current issues and think new thoughts. That we have survived even this long is probably a testament Comment ...............................................................2 to the need for such a space to exist. If there were any doubt, let us consider what people have written about in Democracy's forest fire .........................................4 this issue. Alex Bell The theme of the issue is protest in Scotland. Alex Bell More than a swimming pool ..................................6 writes an overview of this subject to introduce articles on Andrew Johnston the community-based protest of the campaign to save The central dogma.................................................8 Govanhill Swimming Pool, the move into the mainstream Mike Small of the anti-GM foods campaigns, and the resurgence of the anti-trident movement. The four writers who discuss Inaction is not an option ......................................10 this subject suggest many reasons that we are seeing Jane Tallents a renaissance in protest. But what is certain is that Rules are not enough...........................................12 these protests are not arising against the backdrop of Clare Coughlan widespread, informed and inclusive debate on the issues concerned. We read the tale of a City Council – an elected A community under suspicion .............................14 body which exists, at least in theory, to represent local Amir Saeed people – which uses the bag of New Government tricks Soothing witless warriors....................................16 such as focus groups, ‘consultations’ and consultants not Scot Hames to assess and represent the views of the people affected but Scottish fiction .....................................................18 to control and manage them to ease the implementation of decisions already made. We are told about the use Edwin Morgan of government as a pseudo-consultant for the bio-tech Feedback..............................................................21 industry to ensure that inconveniencies such as local producer or consumer concerns do not stand in the way Web Review ..........................................................23 of big business’s profits. And we learn of the penalties faced by people for trying to abide by international law by preventing governments from breaking it. Cover Illustration: Tommy Perman, [email protected] www.surfacepressure.co.uk Protest is about changing the decisions made by government, but it exists as much because of the failure of ‘space’ as because of the failure of government. The Editorial Committee reason protest exists (apart from providing an outlet for Aamer Anwar Henry McCubbin the frustrations of angry concerned citizens) is because Bill Bonnar Tom Nairn protest is newsworthy, and things which are newsworthy Moira Craig Andrew Noble find space in the media. The media is virtually the only Roseanna Cunningham Jimmy Reid (editor) space in which most people learn about what is happening John Kay Tommy Sheppard beyond the strictly local, and without the lobbying resources Isobel Lindsay Alex Smith of the multinationals and the big interest groups, it is only John McAllion Elaine Smith the concerns of a mass of people with votes which is likely to change the mind of governments. It is a failure of space Robin McAlpine Bob Thomson which means that the only way to explain to people that Articles for publication should be emailed to: [email protected] weapons of mass destruction like Trident are illegal and Letters and comments should be emailed to: [email protected] are in Scotland (and a big thanks to George W for finally Website: www.scottishleftreview.org Tel/Fax 0141 424 0042 bringing into mainstream language a proper description Scottish Left Review, 741 Shields Road, Pollokshields, Glasgow G41 4PL of what Trident is) is to see Tommy Sheridan being carried away by police after peaceful demonstration. The only 2 3 way to get people to understand the potential implications decision has yet been taken and the time for debate is of the planting of GM food is to break the law so you can when those decisions are being taken”). Then, when the get your arguments into the papers. Protest is, at least in space is becoming too large to just ignore, use all the part, a reaction to the failure of space. power at your disposal to distort it by using other spaces, through the use of some pretty pathetic black propaganda, We then have an article on the World Trade Organisation, the refusal to engage with the difficult questions, and the an organisation which seems actively to seek obscurity meaningless reduction of complex issues to fairytale to ensure that its workings do not become the subject moralising. One space is occupied by intelligent and of popular discussion. And well might it be concerned; informed commentators raising extremely important if there was a widespread understanding of what it is and questions about the implications for maintaining an what it does, it would be significantly more difficult for it international legal system or the hope of preventing an to pursue its economic imperialism unfettered. A mindset entire part of the world from disintegrating. The other is has been encouraged among the populations of the occupied by Tony Blair saying “I know I am morally right, Western democracies that issues of this type are difficult and that should be enough for you”. On the day of writing, (as opposed to ‘fun’, the new opium of the masses) and Blair has been telling us that it could have been London therefore to be avoided – particularly in the ‘personal’ time or Berlin which was attacked and not New York. Not one after the working day is finished. Crimes and scandals voice seems to have been allowed the space to say “no it carried out nominally on our behalf are allowed to take couldn’t – it was America which was attacked and for a place almost unchallenged because the space in which to very specific set of reasons”. debate them has been assiduously closed off. The space where we used to think has been colonised by adverts And the final article is an extract from the lecture Edwin and trash-pop-culture and is now a space where we do Morgan gave to the Scottish Left Review’s lunchtime nothing but consume. lectures during the Edinburgh Festival. A literate, intelligent, thought provoking and witty There are then two articles in which Protest exists discussion of Scottish literature, Scottish different aspects of the ‘war on terrorism’ as much culture and the fate of Scottish politics, it are considered. Perhaps we are now is essential to ensure that there is a space beginning to see space to ask these because of in which writing and thinking of this quality questions opening up in the mainstream the failure can exist. – even the Daily Mail is expressing doubts of ‘space’ as about the purpose of instigating a war We continue to be convinced that there against Iraq. However, Tony Blair and because of is an ongoing need in Scotland to create George Bush are demonstrating another the failure of as many spaces as is possible, squeezed of the failures of space; where you can’t government in between the billboards and the soap stop the space appearing, just make sure operas, enabling people to engage with that it is isolated from the spaces where important issues which are far too prone decisions are made. The last few months have been an to disappear. The Scottish Left Review is one such object lesson in how to isolate space you don’t want to space, and it is now a firmly-established part of the deal with. Firstly, refuse to even enter the arena (“No Scottish political and cultural scene. Our readership is not big enough to claim any impact on the views of the population generally, and perhaps there is little evidence that the space we are providing for debate is influencing ������������������ the shape of policy-making in Scotland. But at least it is enabling some of the questions which have to be asked if ������������ we are to overcome what has been called ‘knowledgeable �������������� ignorance’ – the choice not to know something when the means are easily at our disposal to know it. ���������������������� ��� ������� ���������������������������������������������� We have spent the first two years trying to build up a body ������������������������������������������������ of good writing and to produce a magazine of quality and ��������������������������������� substance. We think we have largely achieved this, and �������������������������������������������� we now need to expand our readership. If every reader of ���������������� ����������� this magazine can get one other person to subscribe, it will ensure that there is a space for the left in Scotland to ���������������������������������������� think, debate and discuss in public. ������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������� 2 3 democracy's forest fire Alex Bell charts the resurgence of protest and argues that it remains an essential part of democracy on’t you miss marching? Walking behind rain-soaked to introduce a poll tax was so vigorously rejected through Dbanners, shouting “out, out”, signing various petitions a can pay, won’t pay campaign coupled to huge protest and then retiring to a bar to wait for the revolution to start. marches, that she had to go. Margaret Thatcher’s demise By closing time the barricades had still to be erected, coincided with the end of the cold war, and it appears we so you went home, disappointed that the world hadn’t made a gear change in our response to politics then. The changed but buoyed by the craic of the protest. big ideological issues were gone, and we learnt to think local.
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