For most of us here in England, the news barely registered. A train was hijacked in a far-off province of Pakistan. 400 plus hostages were taken, some of whom were killed, though the number of ...

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.

A founding aim of Red Pepper was to offer a platform for inter-left discussion, focusing on inclusive and accessible debate, not dogma, and covering a range of political parties and ideologies.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Technology has replaced humans in certain functions (eg manufacturing), enhanced their capabilities in others (eg microsurgery) and enabled them to do things that are entirely new (eg to fly). What ...

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