Culture and media
Taking our cue from Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport.
We cover a breadth of themes, from representations of class, race and gender in the arts, to progressive and reactionary uses of nostalgia, to the grassroots voices democratising the channels of communication.
Taking our cue from Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport.
We cover a breadth of themes, from representations of class, race and gender in the arts, to progressive and reactionary uses of nostalgia, to the grassroots voices democratising the channels of communication.
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The long road to gender recognition reform
From bans on trans athletes to violence in the streets and attacks in the legislature, Jamie Jewkes traces the normalisation of transphobia in Britain
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A poet, a composer and an unlikely Greek protest song
Eugenia Russell looks at the unlikely protest song that united Mikis Theodorakis with one of his most illustrious collaborators, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Giorgos Seferis
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Fighting workplace surveillance
Jamie Woodcock examines the growing range of tools bosses use to spy on their workers – and how they can be resisted
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Why football matters in Algeria
The Algerian national football team’s recent victory in the Arab Cup raises old and new debates on the question of national identity, writes Mahfoud Amara
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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
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Dawn Foster: a voice from the sharp end
A tribute to our friend Dawn Foster, who died earlier this year, from her friends Gary Younge, Helen Zaltzman, Sam Tarry, Sarah Woolley and everyone at Red Pepper
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Cryptocurrencies: a view from the left
As cryptocurrencies take the world of finance by storm, Thomas Redshaw examines their rise and what the left should make of them
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