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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.

  • An illustration depicting anarchist assassin Leon Czolgosz (left) shooting US President William McKinley (right) whilst shocked onlookers try to intervene

    Key words: Propaganda of the deed

    In the late 19th and early 20th century, multiple kings, prime ministers and members of the ruling class fell victim to assassins who hoped to foment revolution through ‘propaganda of the deed’. Blood Work host Gregk Foley traces how this concept continues to shape political violence today

  • A group photo of members of Your Party's Tower Halmets group with anti-fascist banners

    Your Party, our roots

    Away from the Your Party inaugural conference, its seeds are growing into roots across the UK. John Stephens reports on the branch members forging their own paths to action

  • President of Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traoré (right) shaking hands with Russian president Vladimir Putin (right)

    Sahel: broken promises and empty anti-imperialism

    The junta regimes of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger present themselves as revolutionary and anti-imperialist. Their hollow rhetoric masks authoritarianism and new forms of foreign influence, argues Joshua Shangobiyi

  • A black and white photograph showing the Petrograd Soviet in session, with crowds of delegates in a busy, semi-circular chamber taken from above

    Key words: Dual Power

    Wayne Price unpacks a concept that lies at the heart of much of Marxist and anarchist thinking on how to overthrow capitalism

  • The TWT logo in black and white print with arrows and read dots

    The World Transformed: giving history a push

    TWT is back, with a new approach to galvanise the British left. Join us to shake off nostalgia, get organised and rise to meet growing threats, write Andrea Gilbert, Lydia Phillips and Isaac Rose

  • British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stood at a lectern in front of Number 10 Downing Street

    The Starmer Symptom – review

    As anger and disillusionment with Labour increase, a new collection from Mark Perryman asks some bold and urgent questions about dialogue on the left, writes Kevin Davey

  • Former Bolivian President Evo Morales stood at a microphone, wearing a white shirt and black jacket. A woman in traditional Bolivian dress stands to his right

    No MAS: the Bolivian left faces up to defeat

    Infighting over centralised power, corruption and economic crisis has led to defeat for a once-inspiring Indigenous leader and social movement party. Linda Farthing and Benjamin Swift report

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