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 ...

Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable. We know this because his ideas were emphatically rejected in the 1983 general election. His youthful supporters are ignorant of history. Labour will be obliterated if it ...

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 ...

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 ...