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

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


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

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

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

As cryptocurrencies take the world of finance by storm, Thomas Redshaw examines their rise and what the left should make of them

The government’s new Nationality and Borders Bill is part of a wider reshaping of citizenship fuelled by biometrics, argues Nisha Kapoor

Only a global ban on human genetic engineering can prevent a new era of eugenics from emerging, writes David King

Governments everywhere are reinforcing their borders through surveillance technology. These invasive and dehumanising systems work only to deny refugees sanctuary, argues Emre Eren Korkmaz
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