Leftfield: Matt McGinn, La Pasionaria and #GlasgowMayDay

Would love to see a Scottish equivalent of Just Seeds. Maybe it exists already?

The mighty Tenementals have released a video for their single, A Passion Flower’s Lament, from the album ‘Glasgow: A History (Vol. I of VI)’. Strength in Numbers Records, 2024. ‘A Passion Flower’s Lament’ is written from the perspective of the statue on the river Clyde which commemorates the men from Glasgow who died fighting with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39).

They write: “We wrote ‘A Passion Flower’s Lament’ because we could see that fascism was on the rise again and we wanted to ask the question about whether we need to worry about the complexities of the conflict. As we say in the song, ‘once more the jackboot seeks to recruit’ and we need to find effective ways to combat its rise. Over the next few days we’ll put up posts about some of the people who feature in the video we’ve just made – La Pasionaria, Bob Smillie and Alec Marcowitch.”

Check it out here:

More info: www.tenementals.com

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The next issue of Scottish Left Review is out now (#150) in which Xabier Villares reviews The Precarious Migrant Worker by Panos Theodoropoulos [Precarity’s Antidote]; Rachel Crawford reflects on the workers’ struggles in the Scottish Games Industry [The Rockstar Union Purge]; Jim Slaven on the legitimacy of rage and what Pier Paolo Pasolini calls ‘facile anti-fascism’ – and much much more. Check it out here: Scottish Left Review – Radical Scottish Political Writing