Mamdani’s impressive victory in last month’s primaries contains sources of hope for transformative politics in the US, writes ...

After 31 years, Red Pepper is ceasing print production. You can read why here. Between March and May 2025, we asked YOU – our readers and supporters – to shape what comes next. Now, we’re analysing ...

Thirty years after its heyday, Esther Freeman traces the history of Reclaim the Streets, the movement’s energy – and its ...

Red Pepper’s beginnings brought together socialist and environmentalist ideas, and this continues in our environment and climate section.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

‘Maximum governance and control with minimum administration’ has become a mantra of how technology is used by state and private actors in a number of Africa’s cities. In Nairobi, Kenya’s capital and ...

International development has failed to deliver. Have development organisations addressed the structural drivers of poverty?

Red Pepper magazine is a quarterly publication and website of left politics. We draw on socialist, feminist, green and anti-racist politics.