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Our in-depth analysis of worldwide events, campaigns and movements prioritises writers on the ground, exploring the critical trends shaping left-wing politics around the world.

Our in-depth analysis of worldwide events, campaigns and movements prioritises writers on the ground, exploring the critical trends shaping left-wing politics around the world.

  • A person in jeans and a white shirt stands arms outstretched looking over a valley

    In pictures: West Bank lives

    With global attention on Gaza, an already grave situation in the Palestinian West Bank has intensified. A Solidus Collective photographer documents two years of change

  • On a bright yellow background, a montage of movie posters and filmmaker Radu Jude holding an award

    Jude awakening

    Juliet Jaques celebrates the work of Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, whose incisive social commentary prioritises laughter, substance and style

  • A man with grey hair in a suit stands at a podium with workers behind him

    Militarisation makes us all less secure

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

  • Three Palestinian children with their backs to the camera watching Israeli military vehicles attempting to intimidate them in the West Bank

    Breaking the sword in occupied Palestine

    In the first dispatch of our series Breaking the Sword, three clandestine organisers working in the West Bank report on settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing

  • Three blood-covered actors in a scene from the movie Sinners

    Sinners sinks its teeth into Irish settler colonialism

    Aisling Walsh celebrates Ryan Coogler’s thriller, which points a rare spotlight on Irish complicity in Indigenous genocide and racist violence

  • A crowd protesting against the government in Iran, most with their faces covered

    Is a left victory possible in Iran?

    Despite brutal crackdowns against protestors, Iran’s dictatorship is weaker than it has been in decades. Bahram Soroush examines how the left might chart a path to power

  • An art display showing messages from children in Glasgow to Palestine

    Shaking up the sector: an interview with Art Workers for Palestine Scotland

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

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