Society and people

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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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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  • A guard in a watchtower at Guantanamo Bay looking over the sea at dusk

    New normal, old struggles

    Twenty years on from 9/11, Ashish Ghadiali speaks with Sohail Daulatzai about the historical antecedents of the ‘war on terror’ and the ongoing struggle against racial capitalism

  • A man, Raymond Williams, ins standing up and speaking into a microphone surrounded by people seated all around him in a busy lecture hall

    The lasting legacy of Raymond Williams

    On the centenary of his birth, Rhian E. Jones celebrates Raymond Williams’ legacy as Red Pepper revives his influential ‘key words’ project

  • Two photos side by side. Dawn Foster sitting at a dinner smiling. A tribute writting on a white wall reads Dawn Foster Forever

    Dawn Foster: a voice from the sharp end

    A tribute to our friend Dawn Foster, who died earlier this year, from her friends Gary Younge, Helen Zaltzman, Sam Tarry, Sarah Woolley and everyone at Red Pepper

  • Boris Johnson and Priti Patel walking with police officers in London

    On citizenship deprivation: when neo-nationalism meets big tech

    The government’s new Nationality and Borders Bill is part of a wider reshaping of citizenship fuelled by biometrics, argues Nisha Kapoor

  • A scuba diver underwater faces the camera, whilst another appears in the background

    Diving into history

    Over 1.8 million people died on trans-Atlantic slave ships, including on hundreds that sank. Tara Roberts reports on the divers excavating the wrecks of a terrible trade

  • Image of human embryo 7-8 weeks from conception

    GM ‘designer babies’: breakthrough or nightmare?

    Only a global ban on human genetic engineering can prevent a new era of eugenics from emerging, writes David King

  • An autonomous surveillance tower on the US-Mexican border, with barbed wire fencing in the foreground

    ‘Smart’ borders and the surveillance of refugees

    Governments everywhere are reinforcing their borders through surveillance technology. These invasive and dehumanising systems work only to deny refugees sanctuary, argues Emre Eren Korkmaz