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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

If politics is the art of the possible, then radicalism must be the capacity to imagine new possibilities like a world without borders.

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

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 ...