Political parties and ideologies
A founding aim of Red Pepper was to offer a platform for inter-left discussion, focusing on inclusive and accessible debate, not dogma, and covering a range of political parties and ideologies.
Today, we’re continuing this tradition, providing primers on political history and contemporary ‘keywords’, analysing the left’s relationship with the Labour Party, and keeping an eye on the evolving far-right.
A founding aim of Red Pepper was to offer a platform for inter-left discussion, focusing on inclusive and accessible debate, not dogma, and covering a range of political parties and ideologies.
Today, we’re continuing this tradition, providing primers on political history and contemporary ‘keywords’, analysing the left’s relationship with the Labour Party, and keeping an eye on the evolving far-right.
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Key words: Zionism
Richard Kuper examines what zionism is (and isn’t) and how it works as an explicitly settler colonial project
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Big Flame: Building Movements, New Politics – review
Max Farrar and Kevin McDonnell’s book demonstrates how much Big Flame has to teach the modern left, writes Kevin Davey
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Towards a progressive future for welfare
David Matthews examines how the welfare state is used against the working class – and how we can imagine a more liberatory welfare system
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Until we are all free: Leftwing media and left internationalism
Writers, editors and artists from the global south must be part of left media futures, writes Sanaa Alimia
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Building the post-Soviet world
From the corrupt to the inspired, Owen Hatherley charts the architecture that followed the fall of the Soviet Union
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No short cuts: Does the British left really need a new party?
We need to build an independent politics from below, argues Hilary Wainwright – and look to longer-term organising, not quick answers
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Necessary and (im)possible: New Socialist and the task of left media
The Corbyn era inspired a new wave of socialist publications, including New Socialist. Here, its editors Tom Gann and Josie Sparrow reflect on the challenges, ambitions and necessities facing left media today
