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. We cover a breadth of themes, from ...

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 Britain, we face the twin dangers of Labour authoritarianism and the ascendant energies of the Faragist far right. Each is animated by a national and racial hostility, roused by revanchism and ...

Proletarian prints Documenting the Chartist movement, the Northern Star (1837-52) was once the second most popular newspaper in Britain – before its readership declined alongside the movement in the ...

In 1994, it was possible – though challenging – to launch a monthly print magazine. Market-led politics were already eroding the welfare state but it still offered sufficient security for people to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Any national independent political organisation must be built up from interconnecting community power in localities, Jamie Driscoll (Tyneside) and Andrew Feinstein (Camden, London) tell Red Pepper ...

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 ...

George Floyd was murdered five years ago, sparking a global BLM uprising. Here, Thandie Keet speaks to visual activist Wayne Campbell about protest, art and solidarity in the US and UK ...