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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 ...

The Green wins over the last few years have been under the radar. In the North East we have nine Green Councillors on South Tyneside and hoping to win it in the next two years. It is entirely possible ...

As we say goodbye to another record breaking year, it is clear that humanity is walking a path towards civilisational collapse and fascism. 18 months ago I upended my life and moved to Hull to join ...

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 ...

For a few decades in the late 20th century, squatting was a critical avenue enabling artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers to start out, compromising on secure housing for time, finances, space ...

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 ...

I was 15 when I attended my first Radiohead concert in Dublin and was thrilled to see a Free Tibet banner hanging on the stage. In 2000, this was a cause celebre and my little activist heart – usually ...

I think an epitomising marker of its viability and relevance was what happened around Corbyn.Because Red Pepper had been tracking that possibility, it was documenting where that might have come from – ...

There is a lot of talk at the moment about the impact immigration had on the General Election results. Notably, the commentary is focused on anti-immigration arguments and the need for ‘tougher’ ...

The global financial crisis of 2007/08 exposed the dominant economics of the time that had reigned unchallenged both in university departments and the policies of western governments. The result was a ...