Photo: Markus Spiske To the reader of this article: stop. You should be working. You’ve already worked forty hours this week for £6.83/hour? Tough. Work more, and when you’ve finally earned enough to buy your rations and pay your bills, you better get enrolled in...
Prisoners’ Round (after Gustave Doré) (1890) by Vincent Van Gogh ‘Why didn’t they just leave the place?’- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed In Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Disposessed, children in the fictional world of Anarres are learning about the history of their...
A banner from the Gota Go Gama London protests in Parliament Square. Photo provided by the author Ms V. has lived and worked in the UK for forty-five years. She had never been to a protest before. She steered clear of anything political, even when the country she left...
Author photo by Marion Macalpine I came to London from Aotearoa (New Zealand) after witnessing the racism, sexism and class system imposed by settler colonialism, at a time of global uprisings against imperialism and patriarchy. In London, I attended 1967’s...
Illustration by Laurence Ware This article first appeared in Issue #235, ‘Educate, agitate, organise’, published March 2022. Subscribe today to read more articles and support fearless, independent media. If it wasn’t clear already, the Omicron variant has drummed the...
Norther Ireland’s parliament buildings. Photo: Robert Paul Young The symbolic importance of Northern Ireland’s recent assembly elections result, even if downplayed in Britain, was lost on few other observers, as Sinn Féin became the first ever Irish nationalist party...
Darlington was one of the so-called ‘Red Wall’ seats taken by the Conservatives in the 2019 General Election. Photo by Gerry Hart Every few years, a political term emerges which raises the ear of every pundit across Britain. One of the most recent of these terms has...
Electoral masterminds Ed Davey and Tim Farron at the Liberal Democrats’ 2009 spring conference It’s 1983 and my school is having a mock general election. For readers thinking, ‘I bet Simon went to a posh private school’ – yes, I did. For security reasons. My father...
Photo credit: Ewan Munro On Thursday 5 May, voters will go to the polls across London. But one central London borough will host a contest like no other. Labour mayor John Biggs faces a challenge from an old foe: Lutfur Rahman, Tower Hamlets’s first directly elected...
The works of intellectuals like Angela Davis (pictured centre) must be shown to have tangible meaning in young peoples’ lives through accessible political education (Credit: George Louis) Red Pepper has launched a vital Crowdfunder to lay the foundations for our...
Photo credit: Berit Watkin The government wading into free speech issues on campuses has become commonplace recently. The 2019 Conservative manifesto committed to strengthening free speech at universities, and in February 2021 the Department for Education published...
Home Office immigration enforcement van in London. Photo: Philafrenzy Red Pepper has launched a vital Crowdfunder to lay the foundations for our future. Donate today. Nearly a year after it was first introduced, the Nationality and Borders Bill’s journey through...