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...
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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...
Review – Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s
Sheila Rowbotham helped start the women’s liberation movement in Britain and is now known internationally for her writings on the history of feminism and social justice campaigns. In her latest memoir, she invites us to witness the birth of women’s liberation, as it...
An update from till two
Social distancing at Tesco supermarket in Haslemere at the start of the pandemic (Credit: Simon Burchell) At the beginning of the pandemic, I think we all felt the same sense of fear and panic about Covid as anyone else. We expected the next person we interacted with...
Molly-Mae Hague and the Toxic Culture of Manifestation
Earlier this year, an excerpt from the Diary of a CEO podcast went viral. The clip was from an interview with Molly-Mae Hague – Love Island alum, social influencer and Creative Director at fashion brand PrettyLittleThing – in which she made comments about poverty,...
Laboratories of the extreme
Mapping of Indonesian forest fires by Forensic Architecture in collaboration with FIBGAR, 2017. Credit: Forensic Architecture, 2018 Eyal Weizman is a professor of spatial and visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he started the Centre for Research...