Political parties and ideologies
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.
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Taking on the ‘fruitcakes’: how can we stop UKIP?
Richard Seymour considers where UKIP’s vote is coming from and how the left needs to respond, whilst James O’Nions provide perspectives on UKIP’s rise at the European and local levels
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The local: for and against
Greg Sharzer argues that movements have to confront the capitalist crisis, not carve spaces away from it. Below, Hilary Wainwright writes that we must avoid the false dichotomy between organising locally and on a broader stage
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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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‘In Gezi Park there is free food, medical care, a kids’ area and a library’
Ece Bulut gives us the latest from Istanbul’s Gezi Park, and looks at how the movement is organising – and changing people
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Thatcher didn’t save the economy, she wrecked it
Alex Nunns argues that the right’s celebrations of Margaret Thatcher’s economic record are an attempt to rewrite history
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Thatcher: You’ve got to fight! For the left! To party!
Commentators frame Thatcher ‘death parties’ as tasteless bandwagon-jumping events. Have some imagination, writes Siobhán McGuirk: this is an iconoclastic moment
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Broken Spring?
Sami Ramadani argues that counter‑revolution has gained the upper hand in Syria and across the Arab world
