Despite Holyrood's lack of power over immigration policy, migrant justice remains front and centre in Scottish elections ...

São Paulo-based playwright Filipe Pereira on the challenges of left theatre-making in Brazil’s evolving political landscape ...

As Britain marks the centenary of its only general strike to date, Joe Redmayne reflects on the role of trades councils ...

The convenient myth of civic nationalism has allowed Holyrood to ignore the rising threat of Reform for too long, argues Coll ...

Reform is a byproduct of Thatcherism, Labour Party failures and left activists’ limited imaginations, argues Ben Sellers. Only a long-term strategy for deep community organising can reverse the ...

Chris Goldie unpacks the concept of conjuncture, and how theorists from Louis Althusser to Stuart Hall use it to analyse social formations ...

A critical examination of capitalism shows it can only function on violence. The sources of this violence vary extensively, from government military expenditure, surveillance and borders to private ...

Five days before the Gorton and Denton by-election, I joined hundreds of Labour supporters in travelling from across the country to target people who in 2024 had voted Labour. The issues raised were ...

In December 1948, a group of prominent US Jews, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, wrote a letter to the New York Times expressing concern over the emergence of ‘The Freedom Party’ (Tnuat ...

The police exist to keep us safe – or so we are told by mainstream media and popular culture. TV shows exaggerate the amount of serious crime and the nature of what most police officers do all day.

Captain James Cook lands on Kanaky, naming the island ‘New Caledonia’ after the Latin name for Scotland. Nickel is discovered by Jules Garnier. As of 2024, Kanaky holds between 20 and 30 per cent of ...