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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 – prioritising the grassroots voices democratising creative 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 – prioritising the grassroots voices democratising creative channels of communication.

  • A montage of illustrated DOPE newspaper front pages on a red background

    Selling DOPE

    Rory Robertson-Shaw describes how DOPE magazine spreads radical left ideas while earning money for its homeless and financially precarious vendors

  • Three blood-covered actors in a scene from the movie Sinners

    Sinners sinks its teeth into Irish settler colonialism

    Aisling Walsh celebrates Ryan Coogler’s thriller, which points a rare spotlight on Irish complicity in Indigenous genocide and racist violence

  • An art display showing messages from children in Glasgow to Palestine

    Shaking up the sector: an interview with Art Workers for Palestine Scotland

    A coalition of culture industry workers are refusing to let the Scottish Arts sector stay silent on Palestine, an organiser tells Red Pepper

  • A 19th century illustration of a quack, edited to show him holding a smartphone, whilst the logos of Instagram and ChatGPT are placed above him

    Algorithms vs the welfare state

    Concerns about misleading AI and influencer ‘content’ on health, welfare and civil rights miss a wider issue, argues Sophia McHardy. They fill a human-made gap that risks becoming an austerity-shaped chasm

  • A composite image of different film stills on an old TV with a red 'snowy' background

    The Red Radio Times: what to watch this Christmas

    As we wrap up for the winter break, Cameron Baillie and Red Pepper editors pick out the best films for readers to enjoy over the holiday

  • Two people in high-vis yellow vests are pasting up a billboard, which shows a Monopoly board subverted to critique Amazon

    Amazon and the cost of Christmas

    Amazon’s Black Friday-January Sales consumerism juggernaut is uniting campaigners. Robbie Gillett charts the corporation’s varied crimes – and explains the necessary response

  • A photograph of musicians on stage from the crowd, with artwork showing a Palestine flag being hoisted into the air

    Brian Eno on tenacious solidarity and a lullaby for Gaza

    Artist and songwriter Brian Eno reports on Together for Palestine and the campaign propelling an Arabic Lullaby into the charts – and raising vital funds for Gaza

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