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Red Pepper promotes inclusive and accessible debate, not dogma, covering a range of political parties and ideologies – from political history primers to analysing left parties and keeping tabs on the evolving far-right.

Red Pepper promotes inclusive and accessible debate, not dogma, covering a range of political parties and ideologies – from political history primers to analysing left parties and keeping tabs on the evolving far-right.

  • A row of tractors, some sporting Union Jack flags, photographed from the pavement in Whitehall

    Reclaiming inheritance tax as a social good

    The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues Dominic Davies

  • 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 group photo of celebrating Reform UK councillors and activists in Durham, with party leader Nigel Farage in the centre

    Rising to Reform’s stranglehold in County Durham

    Reform is a byproduct of Thatcherism, Labour Party failures and left activists’ limited imaginations, argues Ben Sellers. Only a long-term strategy for deep community organising can reverse the right-wing course that appears to lie ahead

  • Investigative journalism: A light in the darkness

    The most important function of investigative journalism is to hold power to account, writes Katie Mark

  • Green Party members in a show of hands

    How to build a new left-party alliance

    A left-led Green party and the new ‘Your Party’ are both vital to defeating the right – but we need cross-party collaboration and grassroots organising to forge real change, argues Labour-turned-Green councillor Liam Shrivastava

  • Democratic Primary nominee Zohran Mamdani speaking at a Resist fascism rally, with a crowd of people holding signs behind him

    Lessons from Zohran Mamdani’s campaign

    Mamdani’s impressive Democratic primary victory is a source of hope for transformative politics in NYC and the wider US, writes Dillon Delaune – one of 50,000 supporters who canvassed for his campaign

  • 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

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