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  • Book cover image of Uncommon Wealth shows a lion roaring

    Uncommon Wealth – review

    Kojo Koram’s book cuts through tabloid headlines to examine the material legacy of colonialism: extreme wealth for an elite few; poverty for the rest. By Leah Cowan

  • Caricature drawing of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in a puppet show holding sticks

    Why should socialists read Marx? 

    Marx remains a vital conversational partner, writes Tom Whyman

  • A mural painted onto a wall with six faces, showing people who were killed during the popular uprising in Tahrir Square

    You Have Not Yet Been Defeated – review

    This new collection reveals the continuing tensions and struggles in Egypt after the uprising of a decade ago, writes Anne Alexander

  • A man, Raymond Williams, ins standing up and speaking into a microphone surrounded by people seated all around him in a busy lecture hall

    The lasting legacy of Raymond Williams

    On the centenary of his birth, Rhian E. Jones celebrates Raymond Williams’ legacy as Red Pepper revives his influential ‘key words’ project

  • François-Xavier Fabre's painting 'Oedipus and the Sphinx', showing Oedipus conversing with the sphinx

    Learning from the Sphinx

    Terry Eagleton draws a modern lesson from ancient monsters

  • Group of Afghan soldiers with one US soldier explaining something to them

    Drawing a line in Afghanistan

    The legacy of colonialism is still very real along borders arbitrarily drawn by the British and brutally contested to this day, writes Suchitra Vijayan

  • A promotional image for the book Asylum for Sale. A raised fist holds barbed wire that features currency symbols and a flying bird

    Asylum for Sale – review

    The edited volume from Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine is a powerful indictment of the modern migration complex, writes Nico Vaccari

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