Media
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The ‘progressive’ musicians putting profit over Palestine
As artists pressure music festivals to cut ties with Israel, prog-rockers like Radiohead and Nick Cave keep rejecting calls to boycott. Their stance is morally bankrupt, argues Aisling Walsh
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A broader songsheet: An interview with Gary Younge
Twenty years on from his piece for Red Pepper’s tenth anniversary, Gary Younge reflects on the shifting landscape of alternative media. Interview by Paula Lacey
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Games Transformed: play, jams and gamers against militarism
Games are not neutral, says Sara Khan. Its time for gamers to raise the alarm – and creatively resist the military-entertainment complex
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Game on! It’s time to decolonise play
Mary Flanagan examines the sordid history of how colonialism has shaped the games we play – and how we can build play spaces free of it
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How to stop getting played
Games and play are everywhere under neoliberal capitalism. But they can also show us the way to a better future, argues Keir Milburn
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Red Pepper: how it all began
The founders of Red Pepper – Tony Cook, Dee Searle, Clifford Singer and Hilary Wainwright – reflect on the birth of the magazine in 1994
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Four quarters of radical Birmingham
The ‘Gramscian project’ of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, established in 1964 by Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart at the University of Birmingham, left an indelible mark on the city. Josh Allen surveys its enduring radical edge