Hilary Wainwright Archives - Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/by/hilary-wainwright/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:00:09 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-RP-Sq-Logo-32x32.jpg Hilary Wainwright Archives - Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/by/hilary-wainwright/ 32 32 No short cuts: Does the British left really need a new party? https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/socialism/no-short-cuts-does-the-british-left-really-need-a-new-party/ Fri, 23 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=45651 We need to build an independent politics from below, argues Hilary Wainwright – and look to longer-term organising, not quick answers

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]]> Transition time for Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/media/transition-time-for-red-pepper/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:12:28 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=44962 After 31 years, Red Pepper is ceasing quarterly print production. Editors Hilary Wainwright and Siobhán McGuirk explain why – and invite readers to shape what comes next

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]]> Labour after the landslide https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/labour-party/labour-after-the-landslide/ Sun, 25 Aug 2024 14:59:48 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=43649 Hilary Wainwright reflects on the 2024 UK election: new parties rising, cracks in Labour’s electoral machine and potential future strategies for the left

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]]> Worker-led transition is essential climate action https://www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-unions-work/work-trade-unions/worker-led-transition-is-essential-climate-action/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:25:02 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=43242 Organised labour is central to successful decarbonisation and averting catastrophic climate breakdown, write Jake Woodier and Hilary Wainwright

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]]> Red Pepper: how it all began https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/media/red-pepper-how-it-all-began/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:48:12 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=43231 The founders of Red Pepper – Tony Cook, Dee Searle, Clifford Singer and Hilary Wainwright – reflect on the birth of the magazine in 1994

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]]> Working class films and social change: An interview with Ken Loach https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/stage-screen/working-class-films-and-social-change-an-interview-with-ken-loach/ Fri, 08 Dec 2023 13:00:57 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=41851 Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright about his latest film, The Old Oak, and his long career dignifying the lives and struggles of ordinary people

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]]> Separate together: a socialist feminist marriage https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/feminism/separate-together-a-socialist-feminist-marriage/ Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=40789 Hilary Wainwright describes how, paradoxically, she and her partner got married to be independent of male-dominated families

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]]> The future is now: rethinking public ownership https://www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-unions-work/alternative-economies/the-future-is-now-rethinking-public-ownership-mutual-aid-communities-grassroots-organising-covid/ Fri, 23 Jun 2023 07:00:39 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=34507 Hilary Wainwright introduces ‘prefigurative politics’ and Ursula Huws explains how community ownership can encourage a fruitful rethink of public ownership amid a cost-of-living crisis

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]]> How the left can build its own politics https://www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-unions-work/work-trade-unions/how-the-left-can-build-its-own-politics/ Tue, 27 Sep 2022 07:00:35 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=33519 Hilary Wainwright sees fresh political opportunities on the horizon in the new wave of trade union and community militancy independent of the Labour Party

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]]> Putin, NATO, and the nuclear threat https://www.redpepper.org.uk/global-politics/war/putin-nato-and-the-nuclear-threat/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:00:31 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=32393 As Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine, Bruce Kent tells Hilary Wainwright about the culpability of NATO - and how different countries should be responding

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