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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.

  • Labour's then-leader Michael Foot addresses a rally in 1983.

    1983: the biggest myth in Labour Party history

    Labour’s 1983 election campaign has long been used to say it is impossible for a leader like Jeremy Corbyn to win any election from the left. Alex Nunns digs out the truth

  • A rally held in 2015 as part of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party leadership campaign inside the Albert Hall in Nottingham, taken from with the seated crowd

    The changing face of Labour

    Josh Holmes speaks to some of the new intake of Labour MPs about a fresh left focus for the party

  • International development has failed. krauze-development

    Essay: The death of international development

    ‘Development’ has failed to deliver. The reason, Jason Hickel argues, is that development organisations have failed to address the structural drivers of poverty

  • disco

    The myth of the 1970s

    In the 1970s, they say, the dead lay unburied, greedy unions held the country to ransom and a divided country was impossible to govern, John Medhurst asks: was it really so bad?

  • An illustration showing a man in a suit running away from two different hats – one a top hat the other a Russian Communist Party hat – trying to trap him

    Maidan over: The balance of power in Ukraine

    While Ukraine’s oligarchic elite aspires to become a ruling class, it is also the object of an ongoing competition between Russia and the west to draw it into their respective transnational capitalist classes, writes Marko Bojcun

  • The Cybersyn Opsroom

    Cybersyn and Allende’s socialist internet

    Leigh Phillips tells the story of Cybersyn, Chile’s experiment in non-centralised economic planning which was cut short by the 1973 coup

  • A pro-abortion demonstration in Washington DC, 13th November 1989 (Credit: Duke University Archives)

    After Beyond the Fragments

    At a discussion in Manchester this summer, Alice Robson shared her experience of activism as a woman and how Beyond the Fragments is crucial reading for the new generation of feminists on the revolutionary left.

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