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 ...

Every time ‘ceasefire efforts’ or ‘truce negotiations’ are announced, the same scene returns to the minds of Gaza’s residents: breaking news alerts; tense scrolling through social media, and ...

The Soviet Union, in the 74 years of its existence in one form or another, was a society that was all about building. The Soviets claimed in the 1970s to have ‘built’ socialism, and while they never ...

Coined by Jacques Derrida in 1993 to oppose Western liberalism’s declaration of the ‘end of history’ after the collapse of the Soviet Union, hauntology later became a quasi-genre of music and ...

In 1994, inspired by 500 years of anti-colonial struggle, the rebel peasant Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) declared war ‘on neoliberalism, for humanity’ via an armed uprising. The ...

The first volume of Tariq Ali’s autobiography, Street Fighting Years (1987), focused on his youth. This latest volume follows on from 1979, taking the reader into his eighties, and includes a ...

When will Amazon workers around the world enjoy collective bargaining agreements with good pay, union job rights, and safety protections? The challenges facing this lofty goal remain daunting. One ...

In 2025 I have resolved to escape the clutches of my smartphone, which has turned out to be no small task – it encroaches on every aspect of my day-to-day life, from communication and banking to two ...

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 Britain, we face the twin dangers of Labour authoritarianism and the ascendant energies of the Faragist far right. Each is animated by a national and racial hostility, roused by revanchism and ...