Culture

Following Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore politics across media, film, stage, screen, music, sport and play – prioritising creative grassroots voices

World without borders Illustration: Cressida Knapp

Following Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore politics across media, film, stage, screen, music, sport and play – prioritising creative grassroots voices

World without borders Illustration: Cressida Knapp

  • A stock photo of an old Television resting on sandy ground

    Local TV, local visions

    Despite the difficulties facing it, local TV holds tremendous potential. Andy Brain highlights several programmes that show what local television could be

  • A montage of images showing behind the scenes action at local TV stations' studios, featuring cameras, people and sets

    The people’s airwaves: saving local TV

    Local TV promised a grassroots platform, but weak regulation and broken business models wrecked the sector. Andy Brain surveys the survivors reclaiming local video

  • A photograph of Carl Jung holding a pipe

    Radical Jung – review

    Rob Faure Walker’s book highlights how Jungian ideas can help us navigate capitalism, ecological crisis and the search for collective repair, writes Craig Snelgrove

  • A black and white archive photo of women at a rally

    Five ‘quiet’ women who shaped Britain’s politics

    Women who have driven social change are often sidelined in movement histories. Esther Freeman highlights five capital rebels you should know

  • Pop songs for political inspiration

    Red Pepper editors pick out the songs and albums that shaped their political imaginations

  • Forgiveness is part of socialism

    Exploring past examples of ‘revolutionary forgiveness’, D K Renton considers the socialist value of striving to repair harm

  • A sepia photograph shows men and women with bikes in front of a building with an ILP banner

    August pause and autumn updates

    As the RPM team embraces socialist traditions with a summer break, we flag choice recent and archive reads and preview an exciting autumn to come

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