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  • Illustration shows Labour leader Keir Starmer walking on a 'tight rope' that is the needle of a syringe

    The urgent case for a people’s NHS

    In the face of severe underfunding and creeping privatisation, Tony O’Sullivan looks at how a new government can counter the twin attacks on the NHS

  • An illustration of Kier Starmer watering a plant that resembles the tree from the Conservative Party logo. A pot with a rose is knocked over and some people hold an RMT banner.

    Keir Starmer’s bad history

    With his insights as a historian of the modern UK, David Edgerton looks at Labour’s new affinity with the Tories

  • An illustration featuring NHS, online booking, full waiting rooms, long lines

    Health workers on strike: taking action, forcing change

    Striking health workers share their reflections on a year of industrial action – and the path forward for the NHS

  • Fighting Fascism

    Red Pepper #242 WINTER 2023 This issue explores resistance to the noxious poison of fascism, past, present and rising – from Stockton to Spain, Greece to Israel – while David Renton and Sita Balani survey a British far right animated by xenophobic nationalism, climate and Covid denial, and violent queerphobia.  In our essay, Lars T. Lih…

  • An illustration in which workers are holding up the letters T, U and C to spell TUC.

    Should we abolish the TUC?

    Callum Cant and Geoff Earl debate whether the TUC is fit for purpose in an era of renewed industrial militancy

  • A child lies in a hospital bed, alert and smiling up at a man, Aneurin Bevan, and two women dressed in nurses uniforms typical of the 1940s, on the first day of the National Health Service

    Anchors for hope: The uses of nostalgia

    Nostalgia can inspire action towards a more just society, says Siobhan McGuirk, if we remember without romanticising socialist victories past

  • Protestors marching with banners reading 'cut war not welfare' and other references to the cost-of-living crisis. In the foreground, a black man and an older white woman in a mask link arms

    Introducing the first New Organising Conference

    Jane Holgate outlines the vision and rationale of an exciting new conference on workplace organising

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