Geoff Kirkwood (aka Man Power) explains how a Tyneside Social Club became a cultural beacon driven by ‘open-minded ...

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

Red Pepper Media has been covering intersecting and international struggles for social, environmental and economic justice for more than 30 years. We’re independent of any party, radical and ...

Forty years ago, on 26 October 1963, Bob Dylan premiered ‘The Times They are A-Changin”, his generational anthem, to a sold-out house at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The song is founded on a conviction ...

Reform is a byproduct of Thatcherism, Labour Party failures and left activists’ limited imaginations, argues Ben Sellers. Only a long-term strategy for deep community organising can reverse the ...

Hitler’s 1936 Olympics were, in many ways, the first truly modern Games and set the tone for subsequent iterations: infrastructure as national pride, the inception of the torch relay and the first to ...

The digital transformation of our world has impacted all areas of life, and migration is no exception. Social media platforms and map or translation apps on smartphones provide migrants and refugees ...

In December 1948, a group of prominent US Jews, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, wrote a letter to the New York Times expressing concern over the emergence of ‘The Freedom Party’ (Tnuat ...

There have been a number of works examining the rise, decline and fall of the Soviet system but few from the angle of serious post-Soviet Marxism, at least when it comes to works translated into ...

In the wake of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 116 children and 28 adults when a colliery spoil tip collapsed onto the Welsh village in 1966, a group of men got together to sing as a way of ...

When my dear friend Asad Rehman asked me to help close this gathering, his specific instructions were to speak about the political situation today and to do it in a way ‘filled with hope’. A bit of a ...

The toll was immense: nearly half of the Portuguese government budget went to the military, at the cost of education and the public services. A country of nine million inhabitants was supporting an ...