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Today, 3 August 2020, the Jimmy Reid Foundation releases a new report on occupational health and safety in Scotland after the Covid-19 pandemic by Professor Andrew Watterson of the University of Stirling. The paper argues… Read More »Occupational health and safety in Scotland after the Covid-19 pandemic: the case for new principles, policies and practices

Today (24 July 2020), the Jimmy Reid Foundation publishes its second short collective paper on learning lessons from the pandemic. It is called ‘ Learning left lessons: reconstructing economy and society in the post-pandemic period’.… Read More »Further pandemic paper – learning the progressive lessons from the COVID-19 crisis for our economy and society

Inntroduction As pressures for a return to previous ‘normal’ patterns and levels of working and economic activity increase, our political attention must turn to the issue of the post-pandemic period, and specifically, responding to the… Read More »Reconstructing Scotland after the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis: learning the lessons of the pandemic

Due to the coronavirus crisis, our planned fringe meeting at the STUC in April – and the STUC itself – was cancelled. The title for the meeting was ‘Constitutional options for Scotland – which way… Read More »Update from Reid Foundation during COVID-19 crisis

At the first meetings of both the editorial committee of the Scottish Left Review magazine and the project board of the Jimmy Reid Foundation since the 12 December 2019 general election, the following motion was unanimously passed:… Read More »Jimmy Reid Foundation supports the right to a referendum

In all its glory, here is the video of Aamer’s lecture at the Bute Hall, University of Glasgow on Thursday 10 October 2019 (with introduction from Neal Juster and Lynn Henderson). Thanks again from the… Read More »Video of Aamer Anwar’s 2019 Jimmy Reid Foundation lecture