Political ideologies

Inclusive, accessible debate covering everything from political history primers to left party analysis to keeping tabs on the evolving far-right

Inclusive, accessible debate covering everything from political history primers to left party analysis to keeping tabs on the evolving far-right

  • Thatcher death celebrations in Trafalgar Square. By Darren Johnson CC-by-2.0

    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

  • A man holding up a photograph of Margaret Thatcher and Jimmy Saville together with the words 'fiends reunited' below

    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

  • A group of armed men, standing around a truck, celebrating and throwing up victory signs

    Broken Spring?

    Sami Ramadani argues that counter‑revolution has gained the upper hand in Syria and across the Arab world

  • A close up photo of a memorial for the victims of the Utøya massacre, showing a flowers and a small sign reading 'Utøya' with hearts on either side

    Roses are our weapons

    In the wake of the far-right massacres in Oslo and Utøya, Asbjørn Wahl describes how Norwegians responded in solidarity with the victims

  • Protestors on top of an army truck holding signs and surrounded by a crowd

    After the spring

    Sami Ramadani considers the response to the Arab Spring from the region’s dictators and other reactionary forces, as well as the role of imperialism

  • A black and white photograph of Rosa Luxemburg

    Rosa Luxemburg’s capital ideas

    Ingo Scmidt discusses the relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital

  • A black and white photograph of Rosa Luxemburg delivering a speech to a crowd

    Reading Rosa: An interview with Peter Hudis

    Peter Hudis, editor of the newly published Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, speaks to Red Pepper

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