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Explore the social movements offering community, action and solidarity beyond electoral politics – feminist, queer, anti-racist, working-class, pro-migrant and more

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  • Photo collage combining various photos of children in institutional settings and a portrait of Hans Asperger in the centre of the collage

    Who counts as autistic?

    ‘Autism Awareness Month’ fails to give autistic people any influence over discussions of their neurology, argues Gerry Hart

  • The growing threat of French fascism: Where next for the left?

    Le Pen’s vote is now more geographically spread than ever before. An insular left needs to look beyond itself to respond, reports Selma Oumari

  • A screenshot from the video game Disco Elysium, showcasing some of the game's dilapidated architecture

    Pixels and mortar: The politics of video game worldbuilding

    With the worlds of architecture and video games becoming increasingly intertwined, Gerry Hart examines how video games communicate through their design

  • A banner on the gates of a university building read: Academic Boycott in Progress

    Universities, financialisation and the fightback at Goldsmiths

    Vincent Møystad argues that as higher education institutions are pitted against each other, students, staff and activists must come together to resist a costly race to the bottom

  • Hungarian Prime Minister speaking behind a lectern with the logo of the European People's Party (EPP) on it

    Hungary’s illiberal education

    Victor Orbán’s far-right government in Hungary sees higher education as critical to the consolidation of the ruling Fidesz party’s grip on society. Dorit Geva reports

  • A Marks and Spencer supermarket checkout with a COVID-19 social distancing sign in the foreground

    An update from till two

    In ‘The view from till two’, published on the Red Pepper website in November 2020, retail worker Tillie described her experiences of the pandemic. Here, she reflects on two years dominated by Covid – and considers what lies ahead

  • The Transgender Pride Flag – white, blue and pink stripes – flies at on a pole over a grand looking building

    The long road to gender recognition reform

    From bans on trans athletes to violence in the streets and attacks in the legislature, Jamie Jewkes traces the normalisation of transphobia in Britain