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 ...

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

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

Every time ‘ceasefire efforts’ or ‘truce negotiations’ are announced, the same scene returns to the minds of Gaza’s residents: breaking news alerts; tense scrolling through social media, and ...

Zionism is often described simply as the expression of the Jewish right to self-determination. Nothing could be more misleading. Late-nineteenth-century Zionists, echoing the beliefs of other national ...

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, ...

By flattening global queer expression into one Western script, queer people in the global north close their minds to older, more fluid and more inclusive ways of thinking about gender and sexuality.

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 our economics, unions and work section, Red Pepper covers both the failing economic status quo and the growth of alternatives, with a trade union focus.

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 Last Issue? 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 ...