Red Pepper seminar, Friday 17 February: ‘Taking on the technocrats’

Councils and the cuts in Wales – event report Darren Williams, secretary of Welsh Labour Grassroots, reports from a day school in Cardiff on councils and the cuts

Solidarity with Max Watson and Jawad Botmeh Two members of London Metropolitan University Unison, including the branch chair, have been suspended. Union activists launched a campaign to defend them

Tunisia’s poet and politician: who was Chokri Belaid? The assassination of opposition figure Chokri Belaid has sparked a new surge in the Tunisian movement. Mohamed-Salah Omri explains who he was and why he mattered

Video: Peter Tatchell speaks on economic democracy We expect political democracy, argues Peter Tatchell, so why not economic democracy too?

Council housing shouldn’t just be for the poor Martin Wicks, Secretary of Swindon Tenants Campaign Group, tells us why we must defend 'secure tenancies' for council tenants and resist means-tested council housing

Interested in joining our editorial collective? We're looking for a new voluntary co-editor to join Hilary, Michael, Emma and James in leading the Red Pepper project

Laurie Penny speaks on women and protest In a public talk last night Laurie Penny argued that anger over sexism is mounting, the left is struggling to respond and there's more to feminist history than the Suffragettes. Jenny Nelson reports.

A Rubicon too far Natalie Fenton on why Cameron is scared of implementing Leveson's recommendations.

Conference: Latin America 2012 Get the latest on recent social and economic developments in the continent on Saturday 1 December, at the Latin America 2012 Conference

Protest in solidarity with Palestine Join the protest against Israel's attacks on Gaza and the occupation

February 15, 2003: The day the world said no to war Phyllis Bennis argues that while the day of mass protest did not stop the war, it did change history

Egypt: The revolution is alive Just before the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, Emma Hughes spoke to Ola Shahba, an activist who has spent 15 years organising in Egypt

Workfare: a policy on the brink Warren Clark explains how the success of the campaign against workfare has put the policy’s future in doubt

Tenant troubles The past year has seen the beginnings of a vibrant private tenants’ movement emerging. Christine Haigh reports

Co-operating with cuts in Lambeth Isabelle Koksal reports on how Lambeth’s ‘co-operative council’ is riding roughshod over co-operative principles in its drive for sell-offs and cuts in local services