History Archives - Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/history/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:17:16 +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 History Archives - Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/history/ 32 32 Cape Fever – review https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/books/cape-fever-review/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=47975 Nadia Davids’ gothic tale evokes the suffocation of domestic service as a psychological duel unfolds between madam and maid, writes Fifi Bat-hef

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]]> Labour and the unions: a contentious alliance https://www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-unions-work/work-trade-unions/labour-and-the-unions-a-contentious-alliance/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:07:57 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=47741 David Howell traces union-Labour Party relations from the aftermath of the general strike, through shaping the 1945 government, tensions under Harold Wilson to Thatcher-era marginalisation

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]]> Striking back: 1926-2026 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-unions-work/work-trade-unions/striking-back-1926-2026/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:04:35 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=47735 One hundred years ago, workers downed tools in Britain’s first and only general strike. Red Pepper explores origins, memories and legacies of 1926

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]]> The migrant genocide https://www.redpepper.org.uk/society/migration/the-migrant-genocide/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:03:31 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=47752 Understanding the massacre of migrants making their way to the global north is a key moment of class struggle, argues Iker Suárez, and for halting Europe’s march towards fascism

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]]> Sinners sinks its teeth into Irish settler colonialism https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/stage-screen/sinners-sinks-teeth-into-irish-settler-colonialsim/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=47518 Aisling Walsh celebrates Ryan Coogler's thriller, which points a rare spotlight on Irish complicity in Indigenous genocide and racist violence

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]]> Storming the Savoy: a communist history of the Blitz https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/history/storming-the-savoy-a-communist-history-of-the-blitz/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=47301 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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]]> Key words: Propaganda of the deed https://www.redpepper.org.uk/key-words/key-words-propaganda-of-the-deed/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=46834 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 political violence today

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]]> Key words: Dual Power https://www.redpepper.org.uk/key-words/key-words-dual-power/ Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=46698 Wayne Price unpacks a concept that lies at the heart of much of Marxist and anarchist thinking on how to overthrow capitalism

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]]> 1995: The year we nearly changed the world https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/history/1995-the-year-we-nearly-changed-the-world/ Fri, 08 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=46104 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: Zionism https://www.redpepper.org.uk/key-words/key-words-zionism/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=45848 Richard Kuper examines what zionism is (and isn't) and how it works as an explicitly settler colonial project

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