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No Shock Doctrine for Haiti 11 February 7.30pm-9.30pm, Brockway Room, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1 Speakers: Peter Hallward, author of Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment Selma James, writer and solidarity activist, Global Women’s Strike Nick Dearden, director of Jubilee Debt Campaign
Red Pepper AGM, discussion and booksale
1pm, 20 Feb 2010 Red Pepper, 1b Waterlow Road, London N19 5NJ 2.30 pm panel discussion on on The role of the independent media in bringing values and principles into the election, with Dee Searle (Red Pepper’s founding editor) and Jonathan Hardy (Secretary, Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom) and Jeremy Corbyn MP (tbc) Booksale from 3.30pm. Please RSVP as light refreshments will be available Arts, Books, Culture An anthropology of civil war
Cartoon history
Casement’s quest
Comprehensive health check
Nuclear exposure
The critical struggle of our time
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Being Tamsin
Booktopia
Which eight books would you take to the ends of the world with you? Heartfelt pleas for mistreated people and literary denunciations feature on radical lawyer Louise Christian’s reading list Red Pepper’s new co-editor James O’Nions picks his favourite books Aki Nawaz on god delusions, the Qur’an and fighting the National Front Map obsessive Roger Lloyd Pack reckons he could ‘probably walk away with the Mastermind prize with Tintin as my subject’ See more Booktopia’s from Jo Brand and Mark Thomas to Billy Hayes and Paul Mason
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Latest IssueDon’t miss the new Red PepperNot leading but drowning Editorial: Not flocks or herds In our February/March issue, Red Pepper co-editor Michael Calderbank warns that in our current system financial pressures will trump democratic concerns - whichever party is in power. Hilary Wainwright examines the Northern Rock experience and explains efforts to develop new community-responsive models of investment. Molly Scott Cato argues for public ownership of the financial sector to make it more ecologically sustainable and Costas Lapavitsas shows how to make banking more transparent and accountable. In our cover story, Stuart White argues that models of republican democracy - incorporating a socialist and green commitment to economic equality - could reinvigorate the left. Joe Higgins says that trade unions can no longer be relied upon to represent the people, while Jeremy Dear and Natalie Fenton argue that journalists - the original voice of the people - feel increasingly constrained to represent the elites. Plus, international coverage of Palestine, Chile, Western Sahara and Italy. In our culture section Mike Marqusee celebrates flamenco, Ewa Jasiewicz looks at Austrian director Michael Haneke’s film The White Ribbon, an unflinching gaze into the roots of violence, we take an illustrated illustrated look at the new book Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality. Plus much more, see our full contents list here From Seattle to Copenhagen: 10 years of resistance Editorial: A climate for change In our latest issue, John Hilary examines the global justice movement’s decade since Seattle and Marianne Maeckelbergh looks at the movement’s democratic decision-making. Tim Jones argues the global North owes the South a climate debt. In Transitional demands, Sarah Irving shows how permaculture-style transition towns are reducing carbon emissions and Chris Baugh explores the UK unions’ response to the urgency of climate change. Alex Nunns assesses the damage a Conservative government might do to public services. Mike Marqusee and Heather Wakefield on public spending cuts and how to fightback. We interview radical lawyer Michael Mansfield and meet Wu Ming, the Italian novelist collective. Our international coverage includes Chemical Criminals, twenty five years after Bhopal. Bilal El-Amine on Hizbullah and political Islam in Lebanon and twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we ask if there’s any hope for the left in Eastern Europe? And Pablo Navarrete and Steve Ellner look at popular democracy taking root in Venezuela’s barrios Plus Rajkamal Kahlon uses autopsy reports from US military bases and prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan as a starting point for her art that we reproduce here. Steve Platt asks is Brecht still relevant? And Michael Calderbank reviews Angels of Anarchy, a major exhibition of women surrealists Editorial: Reclaiming our food systems In our October/November issue we examine the current global food crisis and call for radical change and food sovereignty. Red Pepper’s new co-editor James O’Nions says that the issue of who ‘controls our food system is a matter of basic democracy’. Sue Branford investigates the global land grab sparked by the food crisis that is seeing rich countries buying up land in the poorer world to ‘secure’ their food supplies. Branford warns that this is a ‘Time bomb for the world’s ability to cope with climate change’. Kath Dalmeny, policy director for Sustain, argues that while we need new food policies to get a healthy, ethical and sustainable food system, government action is ‘inadequate and contradictory’. And Matt Sellwood profiles a Hackney organisation that is trying to change the way we get and eat our food. In the build up to December’s Copenhagen Climate Summit, Michael Meacher MP says the government’s low carbon transition plan is built on an accounting trick that will make developing countries shoulder the burden. Plus Oscar Reyes examines the plethora of protests and actions planned for summit. And we also analyse the political debates going on inside Climate Camp. More than 35 years on Hilary Wainwright and Andy Bowman ask what relevance does the Lucas Aerospace workers’ alternative economic plan have for red-green thinking today. Mike Marqusee argues that the ‘war on cancer’ is a misplaced metaphor for what is as much a political as a medical issue. Andrea D’Cruz travels to Abu Dis to find out more about the arrest and detention of Palestinian children. Author Alastair Crooke believes that the left needs a more complex understanding of political Islam. But Saeed Rahnema and Azar Majedi strongly reject his interpretation of events in Iran. Plus, we investigate government support for the arms industry and ask is ‘community justice’ a more progressive approach to crime? Start your subscription with our current issue for just £20 and get our last three back issues, absolutely free |
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Heirs of Pinochet
The left must overcome its fragmentation if it is to halt future advances by the Chilean right Rats flee a sinking rat
Informers in the classroom
New rules on the admission of overseas students have provoked anger among university and college staff and students. Frances Webber reports
Understanding Haiti
James O’Nions says the tragedy of Haiti doesn’t just lie with the recent earthquake Profiting from Haiti’s crisis
The community revolution
Pablo Navarrete introduces the importance of community councils in Venezuela’s barrios, while Steve Ellner assesses their prospects for deepening the ‘Bolivarian revolution’
What’s left in Eastern Europe
Leigh Phillips spoke to Stefan Zgliczynski and Jane Hardy about the left’s prospects
How the Unions and the left can save our public services
Time is running out for our public services - trade unions, service users, community organisations and the left must act now
All together now
With public sector spending cuts the new orthodoxy, the trade union movement needs to mobilise a stronger counter-attack, argues Heather Wakefield of public sector union Unison
Busting the straitjacket
Rolling back the new ‘common sense’ of spending cuts may seem like a difficult job, but it’s not impossible, says Mike Marqusee
Conservatives 2.0
With the Tories still setting the political agenda in the run up to the election, Alex Nunns examines what a Cameron government might actually have in store for us
Unions see green light on climate
Chris Baugh explains how UK trade unions are beginning to respond to the urgency of climate change with an agenda of ‘just transition’
Best left unsaid
David Beetham, Stuart Weir and Stuart Wilks-Heeg write down our unwritten and undemocratic constitution Breaking rank
Local to global
Reinventing democracy
Transitional demands
A friend in court
Liz Davies reviews Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer by Michael Mansfield QC An ability to persuade
Equality of life
While it is commonplace for the left to argue that greater equality is desirable, it is less common to see a huge evidence base used to make the case. Matt Sellwood spoke to Richard Wilkinson, who has done just that in his book The Spirit Level
Cop this
The UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December is a major event in the battle to strike a deal on cutting carbon emissions. Oscar Reyes picks his way through the plethora of campaigns and networks that are making demands and calling protests and actions
Anti-capitalism: alive and well
Ten years ago, the global justice movement burst from the streets of Seattle onto the world’s television screens. John Hilary examines the victories and challenges of the last decade
PR for the rich
The ‘Taxpayers’ Alliance’ has become a ubiquitous commentator on tax and government spending. Clifford Singer finds out who they really are
Home-grown in Lebanon
Bilal El-Amine considers the experience of Hizbullah in Lebanon
Chemical criminals
On 3 December 1984, the world’s worst industrial disaster took place at Bhopal in India. Twenty-five years on, Rajwinder Sahota visits the city to find out what happened to the victims
Opening the gates
Andrea D’Cruz talks to a group organising collective action among people on the margins of the welfare system
Enforced destitution
Frances Webber investigates the Home Office’s policy of imposing poverty on those seeking asylum in Britain
Food Fight: seeds of change in the global food system
The great global land grab
Feeding the city
Hungry for change
Confronting the City
Know your enemy: Biotech bonanza
Tim Hunt fails to find any redeeming features in agro-giant Monsanto
Politics of cancer
Mike Marqusee argues that the ‘war on cancer’ is a misplaced metaphor for what is as much a political as a medical issue
Radicals return to the UN
Nick Dearden assesses the chances for real change in the global economy as a result of a UN summit on the economic crisis held in June 2009
A radical alternative to prison?
The community justice centre in Liverpool has been called a more enlightened approach to dealing with crime. Jon Robins investigates
Scars of childhood
The arrest and detention of Palestinian children by the Israeli army inflicts long-term trauma on Palestinian society. Andrea D’Cruz travelled to Abu Dis to find out more Red Shi’ism, Iran and the Islamist revolution
Saeed Rahnema responds saying that Alistair Crooke’s understanding of the Iranian revolution and recent events is deeply flawed and Azar Majedi argues Alastair Crooke’s glorification of the Islamist movement is based on distortions and falsification |
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