Society and people
The erosion of state welfare systems have made life increasingly precarious within global society – especially for people who experience marginalisation.
Explore how social movements old and new are offering community, action and solidarity beyond electoral politics.
The erosion of state welfare systems have made life increasingly precarious within global society – especially for people who experience marginalisation.
Explore how social movements old and new are offering community, action and solidarity beyond electoral politics.
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Deviants and trailblazers – review
Rebecca Jane Morgan’s account of the fight for legal recognition for trans people in the UK is a valuable resource to contemporary activists, writes Kit Heyam
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On the radical politics of sobriety
Addiction in the UK remains stigmatised as an individual failing. Recognising its structural underpinnings is key to liberatory framings of sobriety, writes William Rayfet Hunter
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Grace Byron on cultural criticism, transphobia and Trump
Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin speaks to writer Grace Byron about trans representation, AI and cultural criticism in an age of moral panic
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Elections 2026: Immigration, employment and the limits of Holyrood
Despite Scotland’s lack of power over immigration policy, migrant justice remains central to the 2026 election, writes Cailean Gallagher
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Key words: Conjuncture
Chris Goldie unpacks the concept of conjuncture, and how theorists from Louis Althusser to Stuart Hall use it to analyse social formations
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Teaching in and against the state
Should fascists ‘fear’ US public school teachers? Potentially, argues Ranita Ray. First, we must address educators’ complicity with state racism and violence
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Cape Fever – review
Nadia Davids’ gothic tale evokes the suffocation of domestic service as a psychological duel unfolds between madam and maid, writes Fifi Bat-hef