‘A pub full of revolutionaries who want nothing to change’
Book review: The Story of Sandy Bells: Edinburgh’s World Famous Folk Bar by Gillian Ferguson. Published by Troubador by Allan Armstrong Sandy Bell’s on Forrest Road is ...
Culture
Scottish independence can show the world a new model for the 21st century, writes Hue and Cry’s Pat Kane
by Pat Kane There are parts of Scotland where the past, the present and the future gets rolled up in one. I’m often to be found in and about Spiers Wharf in Glasgow. The ...
Restless Land: A people’s narrative of Scottish history
Book launch: Restless Land by Alan McCombes and Roz Paterson, published by Calton Books and distributed by AK Press by Frances Curran It was a book launch but not as we know ...
A sporting chance?
Preview: Endurance by Catrin Evans and The Women’s Creative Company. The Arches, Argyle Street, Glasgow, 24–27 July, various times Endurance is a theatre project which ...
Exhibition on Glasgow’s links to slave trade
How Glasgow Flourished 1714–1837. A temporary exhibition on show at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow until 17 August by Dominic Bascombe, Assistant ...
Indyref gets arty
The Festival of the Common Weal, 6 July at 12-6pm at The Arches in Glasgow, celebrates left music, arts and politics and brings together various left and progressive ...
Manics declare war on the obvious
Album review: Futurology by Manic Street Preachers, out now on Sony/Columbia by Simon Whittle When the Manics released their magnificent laid back, acoustic-tinged album ...
Scottish Socialist Voice 