Maria Alyokhina speaks to Red Pepper Media on the power of music and political will at a time of war and rising ...

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A coalition of culture industry workers are refusing to let the Scottish Arts sector stay silent on Palestine, an organiser tells Red Pepper ...

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 ...

I was 15 when I attended my first Radiohead concert in Dublin and was thrilled to see a Free Tibet banner hanging on the stage. In 2000, this was a cause celebre and my little activist heart – usually ...

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 is a media project of left politics and culture. We publish regular content online, provide training, contribute to movement-building events, and has published magazines since 1994 . We’re ...

In 2025 I have resolved to escape the clutches of my smartphone, which has turned out to be no small task – it encroaches on every aspect of my day-to-day life, from communication and banking to two ...

There have been a number of works examining the rise, decline and fall of the Soviet system but few from the angle of serious post-Soviet Marxism, at least when it comes to works translated into ...

In the 19th and 20th century, kings, prime ministers and ruling elites were felled by assassins aiming to foment revolution. Gregk Foley traces how such ‘propaganda of the deed’ continues shape ...

In April 2025, a Labour government announced they would jail water bosses who ‘cover up sewage dumping’. In what appears to be a radical reform, penalties under the Water (Special Measures) Act 2025 ...

What’s more offensive than a £10 million state-funded victory celebration for Margaret Thatcher is that, unlike the woman herself, her ideas are still alive and kicking. Amid the debris of a global ...