War and conflict Archives - Red Pepper

Key Words: Peoples’ Tribunals

Siobhan McGuirk — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Yasmin Gunaratnam explores a tradition of ordinary people holding governments, employers and institutions to account

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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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Storming the Savoy: a communist history of the Blitz

Gerry Hart — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

During World War II, the Communist Party led efforts to secure shelter for ordinary Londoners amid the horrors of the Blitz. Fergus Lamb examines the impact and legacy of its success

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The long history of US intervention in Latin America

Siobhan McGuirk — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Grace Livingstone charts a centuries-old norm of land grabs and bloody intervention and asks: what’s next for Venezuela?

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Lies, false flags and extrajudicial murders: resisting US attacks on Venezuela

Gerry Hart — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000

A US government desperate to topple Maduro is deploying military force alongside ‘war on drugs’ rhetoric. We must unite against the latest moves in a longstanding offensive, argues Francisco Dominguez

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Warfare’s waste is welfare’s loss

Gerry Hart — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Labour claims that boosting military spending will produce employment growth. Far from it, argues Richard Norton Taylor, it funnels money to private contractors that should fund public services

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The battle behind Unite’s belated action on Palestine

Gerry Hart — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Union members have won a long internal struggle for meaningful action against UK arm sales to Israel. Raymond Morell was one of them – and reports from behind the scenes

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Dispatches from Gaza: ceasefire cycles

Gerry Hart — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000

As talks of a ceasefire rise and fade from the headlines, Shaimaa Eid speaks to people living in Gaza City – documenting the meaning of ‘truce’ as felt on the ground

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Breaking the UK’s complicity in Israel’s genocide

Gerry Hart — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000

As long as arms flows and military support continue despite public opposition, the UK remains an active partner in Israel’s genocide, writes Tim Bierley

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The spiral of violence in Balochistan

Gerry Hart — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Roshaan Khattak and Thomas Jeffrey Milley examine the causes of the violence between Baloch insurgents and the Pakistani government

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