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New limbs for the left by Hilary Wainwright (June 2008)

New Labour is dead. The New Tories are in the ascendancy. The left needs to look beyond its existing, inbred networks, writes Hilary Wainwright

Flight fight by David Matthews (January 2008)

With plans for a third runway at Heathrow currently under consultation and airports cross the UK looking to expand, David Matthews surveys the new coalitions linking local residents’ opposition to environmental concerns about climate change

Tax resistance by Joe Jenkins (December 2007)

Joe Jenkins reports on the the Peace Tax Seven, a group of conscientious objectors seeking a judicial review of the war tax policies in Britain

The commons, the state and transformative politics by Hilary Wainwright (December 2007)

Hilary Wainwright examines how new technology and new forms of organisation are coming together to transform the left and labour movements, political representation and democracy

Hearts, Minds and Radical Democracy by Dave Castle (June 1998)

Dave Castle continues Red Pepper’s interviews with theorists whose work contributes to a renewal of the left. This month he talks to Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe whose work on social movements and class offers a controversial theorisation of insights familiar to grassroots activists.