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

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

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

During the book campaign of my novel, Herculine [a horror fiction about an all-trans commune, published in October last year] I was asked a lot about politics. I was also asked to speak on – and speak ...

The current Israeli assault on Gaza is distinct only for its ferocity and the clarity of genocidal intent from its orchestrators. As a practice, it is anything but new. IDF ‘operations’ against ...

Palestine is a live issue in the trade union movement, writes Bernard Regan, with eighteen unions are affiliated to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Here’s how they’re taking action – and you can ...

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

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 ...

In 2025 I have resolved to escape the clutches of my smartphone, which has turned out to be no small task – it encroaches on every aspect of my day-to-day life, from communication and banking to two ...

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 ...

I was 15 when I attended my first Radiohead concert in Dublin and was thrilled to see a Free Tibet banner hanging on the stage. In 2000, this was a cause celebre and my little activist heart – usually ...