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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.

  • 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

  • A group of Orthodox Jewish men at a protest, with Palestinian flags in the background, holding a placard reading 'Judaism condemns the State of "Israel" and its attrocities'.

    Key words: Zionism

    Richard Kuper examines what zionism is (and isn’t) and how it works as an explicitly settler colonial project

  • A collection of front pages of Big Flame, collaged together as part of the front cover of Big Flame Building Movements, New Politics

    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

  • A woman wearing a mask in a wheelchair speaking into a microphone, while other protestors holding signs and placards stand behind her

    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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