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 people in Gaza have come to understand political language – not out of education, but because of the immense pain. Each cycle of ceasefires began with a small hope and ended in a greater disaster.

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 ...

‘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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

As an autistic person who lives within capitalism, the basic idea that capitalism, not autism itself, is disabling, makes a lot of sense to me. Indeed, my own experiences demonstrate some of Robert ...

The police exist to keep us safe – or so we are told by mainstream media and popular culture. TV shows exaggerate the amount of serious crime and the nature of what most police officers do all day.