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 ...

The French left is as responsible as President Macron and the right for the rise of the National Rally, argues Yasser Louati ...

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 ...

Surveillance has always been a crucial part of Israel’s settler colonial endeavour. Prior to the establishment of the Israeli state in the 1940s, squads from Zionist paramilitary groups roamed ...

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 ...

Red Pepper is a media project of left politics and culture. We publish regular content online, provide trainings, contribute to movement-building events, and has published magazines since 1994 . We’re ...

In 2025 I have resolved to escape the clutches of my smartphone, which has turned out to be no small task – it encroaches on every aspect of my day-to-day life, from communication and banking to two ...

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 ...

The epithet ‘tankie’ began as an insult from one group of communists to another. It was coined by those in the Communist Party of Great Britain who opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw ...

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The police exist to keep us safe – or so we are told by mainstream media and popular culture. TV shows exaggerate the amount of serious crime and the nature of what most police officers do all day.

We do our movements no favours by presenting them as homogenous forms for the sake of convenient political narratives and expedient analysis. Leah Cowan’s Why Would Feminists Trust the Police? makes a ...