A young bell hooks. Photo credit: The Ethics Centre The sudden death of bell hooks on 15 December 2021 created ripples that will be felt for a long time. As a young black working-class woman, bell hooks’s words were initiation into a political trajectory that...
Karachi, Pakistan from above. Credit (CC BY-SA 3.0) In Refugee Cities, Sanaa Alimia reconstructs the microhistories of Afghans in Pakistan with a focus on two cities: Karachi and Peshawar. The book empathetically provides an inside-out understanding of how shifting...
Delegates to the 1886 convention of the Knights of Labor Nativist Moments The year is 1880. The United States is just out of a long slump caused by a financial crisis, the Panic of ’73. Much of the rest of the world is still in it. Unemployment is high. Migration is...
Mount Mikeno & Mount Karisimbi located within Virunga National Park (Credit: Johannes Zielcke) Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya: What are the key dangers currently facing the Virunga National Park and the local communities? Pascal Mirindi: The Democratic Republic of...
Selected Political Writing cover art In 2013, Doreen Massey, Stuart Hall and Michael Rustin published the ‘Kilburn Manifesto’ in their journal, Soundings. It was a rallying call for a socially democratic alternative to neoliberalism. Hall died in the following year;...
Michal Burawoy’s Public Sociology cover art It is unusual to read a book written by someone who was your close neighbour when growing up. Michael Burawoy was our ‘next door but one’ neighbour in a lower middle-class street in south Manchester. Later, doing maths at...
Photo provided by Sutton Community Farm The UK farming sector is in the middle of an existential crisis. As a consequence of leaving the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, the Conservative government has had to draft a new agricultural support scheme to either match or...
Not sure what to get that special lefty in your life this festive season? Want to support independent media? Look no further! The Red Pepper Christmas gift bundle includes… our latest issue, ‘Deluge and Drought’ an annual subscription for 2023 (four more issues!) the...
Emergency Workplace Organising Committee graphic (Credit: EWOC) At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, tens of millions of US workers were confronted with more dangerous conditions at work. They were called essential but in many cases were treated as expendable....
For Irish unity march, London 1979. Photo credit: Gillfoto David Holden didn’t intend to kill Aidan McAnespie, but he did fantasise about doing it. While fondling a general-purpose machine gun, aiming it at McAnespie and pulling the trigger, Holden fantasised about...
Photo: EE Image Database (licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0) This article first appeared in Issue #237, ‘Power in Unions’, published September 2022. Subscribe today to read more articles and support independent media. The energy price hikes we’re all facing aren’t...
The South Indian thali we had for lunch that day was exceptional. It had been one of the first sunny, bright blue sky days of the year and as we drove through Evington and Highfields even the ‘dark factories’ glistened. Along East Park Road, Vaisakhi decorations wove...