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.


One hundred years ago, workers downed tools in Britain’s first and only general strike. Red Pepper explores origins, memories and legacies of 1926

Understanding the massacre of migrants making their way to the global north is a key moment of class struggle, argues Iker Suárez, and for halting Europe’s march towards fascism

Local TV promised to platform grassroots politics and marginal voices, but weak regulation saw the sector thin out. Andy Brain surveys the survivors and asks: can communities reclaim the airways?

Maria Alyokhina explains the power of music and political will at a time of war, rising authoritarianism and right-wing radicalisation

Aisling Walsh celebrates Ryan Coogler’s thriller, which points a rare spotlight on Irish complicity in Indigenous genocide and racist violence

Despite brutal crackdowns against protestors, Iran’s dictatorship is weaker than it has been in decades. Bahram Soroush examines how the left might chart a path to power

During World War II, the Communist Party led efforts to secure shelter for ordinary Londoners amid the horrors of the Blitz. Fergus Lamb examines the impact and legacy of its success




