Refusing to take measures to stop UK-made components for F-35 fighters from being delivered to Israel. UK firms have also exported thousands of military items including munitions to Israel since the ...

The Soviet Union, in the 74 years of its existence in one form or another, was a society that was all about building. The Soviets claimed in the 1970s to have ‘built’ socialism, and while they never ...

Taking our cue from Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport.

In 1994, inspired by 500 years of anti-colonial struggle, the rebel peasant Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) declared war ‘on neoliberalism, for humanity’ via an armed uprising. The ...

The first volume of Tariq Ali’s autobiography, Street Fighting Years (1987), focused on his youth. This latest volume follows on from 1979, taking the reader into his eighties, and includes a ...

Red Pepper covers both the failing economic status quo and the growth of alternatives the section on economics, unions and work. While exploring how privatisation, globalisation, the gig economy, and ...

Red Pepper #247 SPRING 2025 Our final quarterly print edition surveys innovations and transformations in left media past, present and future – providing inspiration for readers to guide where Red ...

In Carmen Maria Machado’s 2021 prize-winning memoir In The Dream House, the author writes that, ‘What is placed in or left out of the archive is a political act, dictated by the archivist and the ...

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Rave subculture has attracted considerable infamy over its relatively short lifetime. However, among all the lurid tabloid reporting of hedonistic free-for-alls, rave also developed a reputation for ...

The East Marsh, once a bustling hub of Grimsby’s fishing industry, had fallen into a state of decline. The departure of the trawling fleet left behind a community ravaged by deprivation and plagued by ...

Red Pepper’s beginnings brought together socialist and environmentalist ideas, and this continues in our environment and climate section. As today’s climate emergency makes this ever more vital, we ...