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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

Our readership continues to grow but none of this would’ve been possible without readers and donors. We need your support now more than ever, with the rise of the right, as progressives we must continue to fight back against regressive policies and ideas.

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23 December, 2025

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Teachers call for counter-terrorism strategy to be scrapped

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
29 March, 2016

NUT members fear the strategy encourages discrimination and racial profiling

New US law targets anti-union consultancies

Tony Burke
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International press coverage of Rio 2016 could change the course of Brazilian politics

Adam Talbot
25 March, 2016

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Corbyn is more popular than Cameron post-Budget

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
24 March, 2016

New polling shows plummeting support for Osborne and widespread dissatisfaction with his budget proposals

Three lessons for EU campaigners on Scotland’s would-be Independence Day

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
24 March, 2016

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Luke Davies
23 March, 2016

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Ed Jacobs
23 March, 2016

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David Maher
23 March, 2016

Mike Hookem’s knee-jerk claims about open borders highlight the need for reasoned responses to terrorism

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Ed Jacobs
23 March, 2016

43 per cent also believe that the Scottish economy would be better off under independence

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