Material

Issue One Launching 14.11.26 16:00

Issue One Autumn 2026

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Material is a new independent publishing project based in Glasgow, Scotland. The first issue of our magazine emerges from one of the most chaotic and disorientating moments in the city’s recent history. The far right is mobilised on the streets; battles over labour, housing, transport, the cost of living and political expression are raging; infrastructure is crumbling; and social, cultural and educational institutions are being picked apart, deliberately run down, or scrapped altogether. The ruthless critique of contemporary conditions—alongside an affirmation of processes of anti-capitalist struggle—is an urgent task in this maelstrom. By providing a space for incisive, pugnacious, in-depth writing on politics and culture, we hope Material can make a useful contribution to the infrastructure of critical, left-wing publishing in the city and beyond.

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Material is an independent cultural publishing project based in Glasgow, Scotland. We produce a magazine and public events. Some of us worked with Variant magazine previously. We provide space for artwork and incisive, pugnacious and in-depth articles on political and cultural matters—in recognition of their deep imbrication. We publish work that is non-academic but scholarly and probing; in conditions of cultural and educational degradation we validate intellectuality in its broadest sense.

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Material is an independent, collectively produced project. All editorial, writing, and other associated work is undertaken voluntarily, although we would like to be in a position to pay contributors in the near future. We recognise that the expectation of unpaid cultural labour excludes many of the working-class perspectives we want to publish.

Printing and producing a magazine also comes at a cost. If you value independent, critical publishing and would like to support the project to sustain future issues and new writing, please consider making a contribution.

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