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  • An array of images on a red background: a Puck magazine cartoon, an archive newspaper, a punk style zine and the cover of Private Eye

    Life in print: a history of socialist publishing

    Former Red Pepper editor K Biswas reflects on the ebb and flow of media fortunes and how a drive to print continues to galvanise the left

  • A black and white close up stock photo of a stack of newspapers

    Blurred Lines: A view from the comment section

    From clickbait to culture wars, Rhian E. Jones laments the debasement of reader engagement in media comment sections – and its impact on journalism itself

  • A cartoon green frog with a red Groucho Marx disguise on a black and green grid background

    Behind the ‘Great Firewall of China’

    Jiannan Shi reports on China’s internet censorship – and the creative ways people are finding to sidestep it

  • A circle of blue illustrated heads shouting at each other on a black and green grid background

    Breaking up with my X

    Tom Whyman traces a personal journey with Elon Musk’s social media platform: from a coming-of-age love story to Twittering off

  • A row of marching yellow humanlike figures with pigtails with headsets on a black and green grid background

    Twitch and the online left

    Political livestreaming shows news consumption has become a form of community participation in which political ideology is reinforced, argues Samuel Rafanell-Williams

  • Geeks united: The power of board game clubs

    A teacher at a Midlands secondary school, reports on the positive impacts of a board games club

  • A selection of historical board games on a pink background

    Radical board games: a history

    Agitators, educators and organisers have long created board games to promote radical values. Red Pepper spotlights some playful examples – including one transformed by capitalism

Pepperista logo 'Pepper' in red text and 'ista' in black font using Red pepper standard font

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