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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

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Pan-Africanism

Illustrations of revolutionary moments in Pan-African history

  • 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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  • The revolutionary dream of Pan-Africanism

    We must learn the history of Pan-Africanism and re-engage with the revolutionary anti-colonial activists who first pursued its dream, argues Kevin Ochieng Okoth

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  • Sudan: from revolution to war

    Red Pepper speaks to Muzan Alneel about the current war in Sudan, how it links to the revolutionary uprisings of 2018-19 and what the future holds

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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

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Debate

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

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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

  • Top Marx: revisiting key Marxist concepts in today’s world

    Jamila Squire breaks down four Marxist concepts that can help in developing a common materialist understanding of today’s crises

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  • Embedding racism: a brief history of border violence

    Siobhan McGuirk charts the development of UK borders and citizenship policies since the early 1900s

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  • The electoral (wrong) turn? beyond the binaries of Labour

    We can learn from the USA and Greece, says Lesley Dodd, to map out routes beyond working only inside or outside the Labour Party

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Culture

  • Love and marriage in the Red Pepper archives

    Dig into the Red Pepper archive to explore how socialist feminist perspectives have evolved since 1994

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  • Separate together: a socialist feminist marriage

    Hilary Wainwright describes how, paradoxically, she and her partner got married to be independent of male-dominated families

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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

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