Some of us read histories of the left for nostalgic reasons. Some of us do so to learn, or to measure the distance travelled, or find fresh inspiration. A few look for nails to drive into coffins, ...

Empowerment comes from fighting marginalisation and discrimination on multiple fronts, says Jen Deerinwater ...

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As long as arms flows and military support continue despite public opposition, the UK remains an active partner in Israel’s genocide, writes Tim Bierley ...

Red Pepper explores how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport in our culture and media section.

Jen Deerinwater is the founding executive director of Crushing Colonialism ...

Kevin Davey is the author of Playing Possum (2017), Radio Joan (2020) and Toothpull of St Dunstan (2025), all published by Aaaarghpress.com ...

This year marks five years since we set up The Refugee Buddy Project (RBP) in Hastings, East Sussex. It is also the ten year anniversary of the formal introduction of the Hostile Environment, a set of ...

In December 1948, a group of prominent US Jews, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, wrote a letter to the New York Times expressing concern over the emergence of ‘The Freedom Party’ (Tnuat ...

In the wake of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 116 children and 28 adults when a colliery spoil tip collapsed onto the Welsh village in 1966, a group of men got together to sing as a way 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 ...

Prince Guma reflects on how new digital technologies for water provision have been adapted – and subverted – in informal settlements in Nairobi ...