DEMOCRATIC GREEN SOCIALIST

Issue No. 8 - Aug/Sep/Oct 2009

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Solidarity

Defend Tommy Sheridan

Richard Dawkins

Stop the War

Robert Owen Institute

Socialist Unity

Published by the Democratic Green Socialists. Letters/submissions to :- democraticgreensocialist@talktalk.net

The class ridden ‘old school tie’ system is alive and thriving in New Labour’s Britain, according to the recent Milburn report. No surprise there then, but what should be done? See Steve Mowat in this issue’s Big Idea.

Contents:

Editorial - After the Vesta occupation; bringing together the red and green threads. Also SWP votes to back a yes vote for independence,

Special Feature - NEW! Debate on Gary Fraser’s Deconstructing Hitler Articles. Contents: Letters and Editor’s reply: John Wight’s critique of Deconstructing Hitler; Gary Fraser’s Reply

Latest news and views - Gary Fraser looks at the implications of the al-Megrahi release; Jock Penman on Diageo and the fight for Scottish Jobs; and Shirley Gibb asks what is it with Swine Flu?

Culture - On seeing Orcas in Burra Sound, a poem by Steve Arnott; Steve Mowat argues that socialists should back the reforestation and rehabilitation of natural hillside habitats; and Joanne Telfer takes a cultural/historical look at why a boat sailing on a Sunday still causes a stooshie in Stornoway, as Lewis literalists collide with modernity

Your Letters - Stop the War calls for mobilisation, building unity at ground level, and a call for a debate on what constitutes human rights for socialists.

MediaWatch - New Feature, Dave Watt watches the watchers. A sharp tongued media diary that casts a cynical look at 'manufactured consensus'

Science - Gordon Morgan outlines A Climate Change Plan for Scotland; Mina Penrose reprints Barack Obama's speech to the US Academy of Sciences and argues that the Bush anti-science era is well and truly at an end.

International - John Wight on Afghanistan, and paying tribute to the proud history of military refuseniks.

History - Gary Fraser’s Deconstructing Hitler Part II; Graeme McIver uncovers a hidden part of Scotland’s history with the swashbuckling story of enlightenment radical Thomas Muir.

The Big Idea - The recent Milburn report into social mobility showed that our society is more divided by class than ever when it comes to working class people getting access to top jobs. Steve Mowat argues that it will take radical action, not platitudes about aspiration, to tackle the class glass ceiling

And finally - the silly season for Scotland’s Holy Wullies.

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