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  • | Misbehaving | MR Online

    Review – Misbehaving

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on March 29, 2021 by Alice Robson (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Apr 19, 2021)

    A new edited volume emphasises that the personal is political and highlights the power of spectacular direct action, says Alice Robson

  • | Bank Job directors Hilary Powell and Daniel Edelstyn | MR Online

    Review – ‘Bank Job’

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on March 20, 2021 by Jake Woodier (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Mar 24, 2021)

    Jake Woodier reviews a new documentary film that brings heist aesthetics to a story of debt activism

  • | Painting by John Everett Millais | MR Online

    Regicide or Revolution? What petitioners wanted, September 1648 – February 1649 by Nora Carlin

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on November 29, 2020 by John Rees (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Dec 15, 2020)

    Norah Carlin’s analysis of the Levellers’ petitions reaffirms the radical nature of the English revolution, argues John Rees.

  • | Bitcoin mining | MR Online

    Should the left care about blockchain technology?

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on November 30, 2020 by Thomas Redshaw (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Dec 07, 2020)

    Despite its utopian promises of digital democracy, Thomas Redshaw argues socialists should be wary of embracing blockchain technology.

  • | Members at the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society 1947 Photo Credit Mont Pelerin Society Records Hoover Institution Archives | MR Online

    The marketisation of truth

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on November 23, 2020 by Marcus Gilroy-Ware (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Nov 25, 2020)

    As Trump continues to contest the validity of the U.S. election, it’s time we look deeper at the causes of our post-truth malaise, argues Marcus Gilroy-Ware

  • | antifascist protest | MR Online

    No Platform by Evan Smith

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on November 19, 2020 by Houman Barekat (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Nov 23, 2020)

    Smith’s book demonstrates that the far-right has always played the victim card when it comes to free-speech, writes Houman Barekat.

  • | An operation of fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil near Chicago USA Richard Hurd Flickr CC BY 20 | MR Online

    Greenwash

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on October 21, 2020 by Alethea Warrington (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 29, 2020)

    Alethea Warrington describes how the fossil fuels industry hopes to change its image but not its practice.

  • | Its time the UK had real democracy | MR Online

    It’s time the UK had real democracy

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on September 5, 2019 by Hilary Wainwright (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Sep 11, 2019)

    Under the UK’s constitutional monarchy, we are subjects not citizens. Rewriting the constitution should be an urgent priority for a Labour government, argues Hilary Wainwright.

  • | Axel Void Peterloo | MR Online

    Whose history? Why the People’s History Museum is vital

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on July 5, 2019 by Danielle Child (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Jul 08, 2019)

    In recent months, high-profile figures have claimed museums should be ‘neutral’ spaces. Thank goodness, then, for the People’s History Museum, writes Danielle Child

  • | Showing the UK is far from a climate leader | MR Online

    The UN climate talks are coming to Britain. The climate justice movement will be ready

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on June 24, 2019 by Nathan Thanki & Asad Rehman (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2019)

    This week it was announced that the 2020 United Nations climate change conference–the so-called ‘Conference of the Parties’ (COP)–is set to take place in the UK.

  • | | MR Online

    Scientists against the machine

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on May 17, 2019 by Jane Shallice (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted May 20, 2019)

    Jane Shallice examines the history of radical research at the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science.

  • | Farright poster in support of Bolsonaro It references Olavo de Carvalho a proponent of the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory | MR Online

    Did fake news win the Brazilian election?

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on October 30, 2018 by Sue Branford (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Nov 03, 2018)

    Bolsonaro’s rise to power came with a welter of misinformation, rumour and lies. What role did ‘fake news’ play in the far right leader’s victory?

  • | Steve Biko Photo via Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on October 18, 2018 by Mike Peters (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 27, 2018)

    Mike Peters explores the legacy of Steve Biko, a radical who spent his life fighting for Black liberation and for the overthrow of the Apartheid government in South Africa.

  • | Socialism starts at home Illustration Andy Potts | MR Online

    Costas Lapavitsas: socialism starts at home

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on October 24, 2018 by Michael Calderbank (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 26, 2018)

    “We have relations of domination, new ways in which imperialism manifests itself. That’s the reality of Europe, not the fairy stories of an alliance of nations, overcoming national borders, becoming one big, happy family.”

  • | An armed police officer at Calais migrant camp Photo by Squat le Monde Photo Credit Flickr | MR Online

    The new undesirables

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on October 20, 2018 by Sivamohan Valluvan and Eleanor Penny (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 24, 2018)

    Sivamohan Valluvan and Eleanor Penny unpack neoliberal attitudes to migration and ‘low-value’ humans.

  • | Socialism The Best Economic System Gaias Homes | MR Online

    Confronting imperialism means winning back the power to imagine alternatives

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on October 15, 2018 by Daniel Whittall (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 17, 2018)

    Vijay Prashad talks to Daniel Whittall about socialism, anti-imperialism and the new global research network Tricontinental.

  • | | MR Online

    The power of collective joy

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on October 1, 2018 by Sam Swann (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 09, 2018)

    In a world of isolation and a left which tends towards despondency, collective joy is our weapon against neoliberalism. Sam Swann reflects on The World Transformed 2018

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Struggle between the Future and the Past: Where Is Cuba Going?
    Editor | Cuban Flag Museum of the Revolution Havana Cuba 2012 | MR Online

    I have 2 favourite sayings. One draws upon the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot will be that “all the realm shall be in common.” To this, comrade Dick responds, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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