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Militarisation makes us all less secure

Siobhan McGuirk — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000

As wars escalate and military spending booms, Karen Bell surveys alternatives to militarisation and explains the real meaning of security for workers and communities

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Selling DOPE

Gerry Hart — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Rory Robertson-Shaw describes how DOPE magazine spreads radical left ideas while earning money for its homeless and financially precarious vendors

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What to expect in 2026?

Siobhan McGuirk — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000

As the new year clicks into gear, Red Pepper editors look back on the surprises and under the radar moments of 2025 – and share predictions and hopes for 2026

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Mutual aid – review

Gerry Hart — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Darcy White explores the contours and applications of mutual aid, which for Dean Spade must be grounded in shared understandings of systemic injustice

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Ripping yarns: Left Cultures and non-hierarchical publishing

Gerry Hart — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Phil Wigglesworth reflects on the launch of Left Cultures in 2023 – and why the international left must embrace non-hierarchical approaches to publishing

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High art, low ceilings: remaking Social Club culture

Siobhan McGuirk — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Jerry Iles speaks to Geoff Kirkwood about how a Tyneside Social Club became a cultural beacon – driven by cutting edge DJs, bingo nights, experimental orchestras and ‘open-minded collectivism’. Now, it's reclaiming culture for everyone

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Reclaiming inheritance tax as a social good

Gerry Hart — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues Dominic Davies

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Cymunedoli: The glue that binds

Gerry Hart — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Economic power in the community – cymunedoli – is the antidote to the far right’s growing appeal in Cymru, write Beth Winter and Leanne Wood

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1995: The year we nearly changed the world

Gerry Hart — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Inspired by the collapse of the Berlin wall and end of South African apartheid, a generation of radicals danced onto British roads and into social justice history. Thirty years on, Esther Freeman traces the movement’s energy – and its legacy

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Key words: The Pluriverse

Gerry Hart — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Pluriversal politics offer an eclectic, egalitarian and emancipatory alternative to capitalist modernity, writes Levi Gahman

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