A recent arts industry report posed the question: where are all the working class people in the visual arts? Reflecting on Glasgow's biggest festival for contemporary art, Hailey Maxwell concludes that, if anything, exploitation and inequality in the world art itself reflect British society as a whole...

Saturday marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the beginning of 16 Days of Action Against Gender Based Violence, a campaign which runs until International Human Rights Day on 10 December. With thousands of women speaking up on sexual violence, Hailey Maxwell argues the Scottish left needs to be doing more...

New Lanark has been hailed as the epitome of utopian socialism, but industrialist Robert Owen was criticised by Marx and others for his paternalistic approach to community living. Nevertheless, Hailey Maxwell argues there is much we as socialists can learn from the 18th century village…