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Despite Scotland's lack of power over immigration policy, migrant justice remains central to the 2026 election, writes Cailean Gallagher

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Joe Redmayne reflects on the role of trades councils during the 1926 general strike

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

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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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Candidates and campaigners debate alternative local offers to Labour and Reform, through future alliances and those already underway

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Ahead of 7 May polling day, candidates and canvassers tell RPM what the left can achieve in local and devolved government

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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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