Pan-Africanism
Red Pepper #241 Autumn 2023
Our latest issue spotlights writers, illustrators, and poets – including Kevin Ochieng Okoth and Muzan Alneel – exploring the history, complexities, and future of Pan-Africanism.
We celebrate The World Transformed 2023 with introductions to Marxism, electoral strategy; ‘just transitions’ to net zero and histories of borders and imperialism.
Elsewhere, we take socialist feminist look at marriage and ask: Should we abolish the TUC? Plus book reviews, previews, columns and more!
![The front cover of Red Pepper issue, Outline of Africa, upside-down, with illustrations of famous Pan-African thinkers and activists, against a black, red and green backdrop. Text reads: Pan-Africanism](https://www.redpepper.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/RP-Cover-241-691x900.jpeg)
In this issue
Pan-Africanism
![Illustrations of revolutionary moments in Pan-African history](https://www.redpepper.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Total-Liberation-Freehand-Studios.jpeg)
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Africa’s strong bonds to Palestine
Remembering Africa’s historic ties with and support for Palestine is vital as relations with Israel are normalised across the continent, write Salim Vally and Roshan Dadoo
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Freedom songs for total liberation
Ubax Abdi and Chief Nyamweya reflect on pan-Africanism past and future while Lena Grace Anyuolo poems express a pan-African socialist woman’s perspective
In this issue
Debate
![An illustration in which workers are holding up the letters T, U and C to spell TUC.](https://www.redpepper.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TUCfirst.jpg)
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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
In this issue
The World Transformed
![Images set against a yellow background show a pint of beer, a robot, workers on laptops and an oil rig engulfed in flames](https://www.redpepper.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Marx-101-TWT.jpg)
In this issue
Culture
![](https://www.redpepper.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Marriage-spread.jpeg)
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Married strife: going beyond marriage equality
The same-sex marriage campaign has been successful, but LGBTQ equality is still a distant dream. It’s time to reassess our priorities, argues Siobhan McGuirk