Mamdani’s impressive victory in last month’s primaries contains sources of hope for transformative politics in the US, writes ...

Thirty years after its heyday, Esther Freeman traces the history of Reclaim the Streets, the movement’s energy – and its ...

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After 31 years, Red Pepper is ceasing print production. You can read why here. Between March and May 2025, we asked YOU – our readers and supporters – to shape what comes next. Now, we’re analysing ...

Technology has replaced humans in certain functions (eg manufacturing), enhanced their capabilities in others (eg microsurgery) and enabled them to do things that are entirely new (eg to fly). What ...

‘Maximum governance and control with minimum administration’ has become a mantra of how technology is used by state and private actors in a number of Africa’s cities. In Nairobi, Kenya’s capital and ...

The epithet ‘tankie’ began as an insult from one group of communists to another. It was coined by those in the Communist Party of Great Britain who opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw ...

In December 1948, a group of prominent US Jews, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, wrote a letter to the New York Times expressing concern over the emergence of ‘The Freedom Party’ (Tnuat ...

From her speech at Still We Rise Festival, Naomi Klein examines what unites world leaders in their defence of Israel's brutal assault on Gaza ...

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 ...

I was 15 when I attended my first Radiohead concert in Dublin and was thrilled to see a Free Tibet banner hanging on the stage. In 2000, this was a cause celebre and my little activist heart – usually ...

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 ...