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  • Cymunedoli: The glue that binds

    Economic power in the community – cymunedoli – is the antidote to the far right’s growing appeal in Cymru, write Beth Winter and Leanne Wood

  • A photograph of an abandoned car with the words 'rust in piece' painted on its side. Two mannequin torsos are resting on the car's bonnet

    1995: The year we nearly changed the world

    Inspired by the collapse of the Berlin wall and end of South African apartheid, a generation of radicals danced onto British roads and into social justice history. Thirty years on, Esther Freeman traces the movement’s energy – and its legacy

  • Key words: The Pluriverse

    Pluriversal politics offer an eclectic, egalitarian and emancipatory alternative to capitalist modernity, writes Levi Gahman

  • Three people standing next to a table decked in a cover reading Cooperation Hull and standing next to a sign reading 'what could we change'

    Experimenting with economic democracy

    Climate activists new to Hull are working to build a co-operative economy in some of the most disenfranchised neighbourhoods in the country. Gully Bujak of Cooperation Hull explains the challenge

  • A photo montage showing houses in disrepair on the right, a crew in high vis vests holding cleaning supplies and a fixed house on the right

    New life on the Marsh

    In Grimsby’s East Marsh ward, a community effort is battling with scant resources to revitalise an area crushed by economic forces outside its control, writes Paula Graves

  • One no, many yeses: tracing the anti-globalisation movement

    The anti-globalisation movement was born at much the same time as Red Pepper. James O’Nions reflects on its rise

  • Wealth for all: Saving democracy with community wealth building

    Ahead of the US election, Sarah McKinley and Dana Brown argue that to save democracy, we first must democratise the economy – with community wealth building the way forward

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