Many video games, like Disco Elysium, use their in-game environments for the purpose of social and political critique (Credit: ZA/UM) Red Pepper has launched a vital Crowdfunder to lay the foundations for our future. Donate today. Back at the height of the pandemic in...
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Going live from the picket line
Photo provided by the author Red Pepper has launched a vital Crowdfunder to lay the foundations for our future. Donate today. I was born in Barbados. My mum sent me to England in 1973 for a better life with my father and stepmother. I was one of a few West Indian...
Wanted: a new health deal
Illustrations by Laurence Ware Red Pepper has launched a vital Crowdfunder to lay the foundations for our future. Donate today. In Spring 2020, critical scientists created Independent Sage to offer impartial advice and stimulate public debate over government policy on...
The future of boycotts after Ukraine
Credit: Raya Sharbain Red Pepper has launched a vital Crowdfunder to lay the foundations for our future. Donate today. The Western response to Russia’s invasion and savage assault on Ukraine represents a profound shift of political discourse when it comes to ideas...
Common Knowledge: Big tech and the digital commons
Credit: Jackie Aim Red Pepper has launched a vital Crowdfunder to lay the foundations for our future. Donate today. The origins of the free and open-source software (FOSS) movement in the 1980s are typical of a social movement. It was triggered by the frustration...
Universities, financialisation and the fightback at Goldsmiths
A banner outside the main gates of Goldsmiths, University London (Goldsmiths UCU Facebook) Red Pepper has launched a vital Crowdfunder to lay the foundations for our future. Donate today! In late summer 2021, the Goldsmiths, University of London, senior management...
The hopeful refusenik: An interview with Joe Glenton
Soldiers of 5 Rifles on patrol near Lashkargah, Afghanistan (Credit: Daniel Wiepen) Red Pepper has launched a vital Crowdfunder to lay the foundations for our future. Donate today. In March 2010, the British Army soldier Joe Glenton was sentenced to nine months in...
Long marches, long revolutions
Photo provided by the author Red Pepper has launched a vital Crowdfunder to lay the foundations for our future. Donate today. Few phrases have so sparked the imagination of the left – and the right for that matter – as ‘the long march through the institutions’ (‘der...
We need YOU to fund our digital revolution!
Click to Donate Today’s left is increasingly organising online – and Red Pepper’s digital presence has substantial room to grow. With your support, we can help build the new tools and resources needed to strengthen these movements and reach new audiences – both on and...
Why should socialists read Marx?
Cover detail, new edition of Marx & Engels, The German Ideology by Tom Whyman (Repeater Books) Red Pepper has launched a vital Crowdfunder to lay the foundations for our future. Donate today. Why should socialists read Marx? Perhaps this sounds like a strange...
Russian feminist anti-war resistance
‘The sixth commandment: Don’t kill’. Photo: Aftozak LIVE Russian law imprisons those who name Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as a war, but many Russians refuse to be intimidated and silenced. One such outspoken group is Feminist Anti-War Resistance (Феминистское...
Hungary’s illiberal education
Viktor Orbán speaking at the 2012 European People’s Party Congress in Bucharest (Credit: European People’s Party) Red Pepper has launched a vital Crowdfunder to lay the foundations for our future. Donate today. Students in England understand very well the impact of...