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  • Tariq Ali speaking at Subversive Festival in Zagreb, 2013 CREDIT: ROBERT CRC VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

    You Can’t Please All – review

    Originally published: Red Pepper on April 15, 2025 by Sheila Rowbotham (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted May 10, 2025)

    Tariq Ali’s second memoir demonstrates his depth as a radical writer and thinker, writes Sheila Rowbotham.

  • CREDIT: LAURENCE WARE

    Machine unlearning: AI, neoliberalism and universities in crisis

    Originally published: Red Pepper on August 25, 2024 by Katy Hayward (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Oct 09, 2024)

    Could Artificial Intelligence render the university obsolete? Katy Hayward explores what is lost when human thought is made subordinate to the machine.

  • A mad world

    A mad world: Capitalism and the rise of mental illness

    Originally published: Red Pepper on August 2017 by Rod Tweedy (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted May 18, 2024)

    What if it’s not us who are sick, asks Rod Tweedy, but a system at odds with who we are as social beings?

  • ‘carnation revolution’

    Portugal’s forgotten revolution

    Originally published: Red Pepper on February 29, 2024 (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Apr 26, 2024)

    The ‘carnation revolution’ saw soldiers, workers and communities join forces to overthrow fascism and challenge capitalist power. Peter Robinson traces events from April 1974.

  • US President Joe Biden visiting Israel’s Department of Defence, who oversee the iron dome, in 2022 CREDIT: OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

    The Iron Dome is global–and so is the resistance

    Originally published: Red Pepper on March 2, 2024 by Naomi Klein (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Apr 17, 2024)

    In her powerful speech at ‘Still We Rise’, Naomi Klein argues that global political classes are united behind a shared supremacist vision in their defence of Israel’s crimes.

  • The Bibby Stockholm docked in Portland, Dorset in August 2023 CREDIT: ANDREW BONE

    Against climate fascism

    Originally published: Red Pepper on March 24, 2024 by Alex Roberts (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Mar 26, 2024)

    Alex Roberts examines the multiple ways that the far right has responded to the climate crisis.

  • Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright

    Working class films and social change: An interview with Ken Loach

    Originally published: Red Pepper on December 8, 2023 by Hilary Wainwright (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Mar 09, 2024)

    Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright about his latest film, The Old Oak, and his long career dignifying the lives and struggles of ordinary people.

  • A Black Lives Matter protest in New York City in July 2020 CREDIT: Anthony Quintano

    “What Is Anti-Racism?” – review

    Originally published: Red Pepper on November 25, 2023 by Sigrid Corey (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Feb 06, 2024)

    Arun Kudnani traces its roots to the campaigns of 1930s’ cultural thinkers such as anthropologist Ruth Benedict and gay rights activist Magnus Hirschfield, who were theorising the rise of Nazism in Germany and urged the U.S. political elite to educate the working class, believing that without this, economic hardship would make racism more likely.

  • Gaza Marine CREDIT: MASSANDER

    Environmental devastation and the war on Palestine

    Originally published: Red Pepper on December 1, 2023 by Samira Homerang Saunders (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Dec 05, 2023)

    Samira Homerang Saunders documents the ecocide wrought by Israel, continuing a long, deadly legacy of modern warfare.

  • Leader of the Civic Coalition (KO) Donald Tusk CREDIT: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

    PiS off! But Tusk’s coalition is a Faustian pact for the Polish left

    Originally published: Red Pepper on November 16, 2023 by Ewa Pospieszyńska (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Nov 18, 2023)

    Lewica politicians must use their leverage for women, workers and minorities, says Ewa Pospieszyńska, or risk even greater threats from the right.

  • A pro-abortion demonstration in Washington DC, 13th November 1989 (Credit: Duke University Archives)

    Review – Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political

    Originally published: Red Pepper on August 11, 2023 by Marin Scarlett (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2023)

    ‘Left Feminisms’ offers an inspiring and accessible overview of feminism from a diverse array of left-wing thinkers, writes Marin Scarlett.

  • Illustration credit: David Istvan

    Debtors of the world, unite!

    Originally published: Red Pepper on June 25, 2023 by Liam Kennedy (more by Red Pepper)  |

    Jayati Ghosh speaks about the growing debt crisis in the global south, the IMF’s never-ending affinity for austerity and the need to confront the power of financial capital.

  • How Money Silences Criticism of Israel (Photo: blacklistednews.com)

    Inside the Israeli panopticon

    Originally published: Red Pepper on March 31, 2023 by Yara Hawari (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Apr 06, 2023)

    Israeli surveillance is used to crush Palestinian resistance and their model is being exported across the globe.

  • Parliament

    Whose speech is the Free Speech Bill protecting?

    Originally published: Red Pepper on April 29, 2022 by Jack Ballingham (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted May 11, 2022)

    The government’s clampdown on free speech is part of a wider campaign to erode all civil liberties. Students must resist, writes Jack Ballingham

  • The works of intellectuals like Angela Davis (pictured centre) must be shown to have tangible meaning in young peoples’ lives through accessible political education

    Political education for all

    Originally published: Red Pepper on May 1, 2022 by Shamime Ibrahim (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted May 03, 2022)

    Political education is absent from our current system. The left should be providing alternative means of obtaining it, writes Shamime Ibrahim.

  • Many video games, like Disco Elysium, use their in-game environments for the purpose of social and political critique (Credit: ZA/UM)

    Pixels and mortar: the politics of video game worldbuilding

    Originally published: Red Pepper on April 20, 2022 by Gerry Hart (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Apr 27, 2022)

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

  • Photo provided by the author

    Long marches, long revolutions

    Originally published: Red Pepper on April 8, 2022 by Daniel Frost (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Apr 13, 2022)

    As Red Pepper launches its new ‘Keywords’ series inspired by the work of Raymond Williams, Daniel Frost explores the associations of Williams’ own keyword, the ‘long revolution’

  • President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele, who accompanied his declaration that cryptocurrency would be recognised as legal tender in June by changing his Twitter profile pic to this version of himself with glowing laser eyes.

    Cryptocurrencies: a view from the left

    Originally published: Red Pepper on December 27, 2021 by Thomas Redshaw (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Dec 28, 2021)

    As cryptocurrencies take the world of finance by storm, Thomas Redshaw examines their rise and what the left should make of them.

  • Designer babies (Photo: Lunar Caustic)

    GM ‘designer babies’: breakthrough or nightmare?

    Originally published: Red Pepper on December 6, 2021 by Dave King (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Dec 09, 2021)

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

  • Māori protesters on Waitangi Day, 6th February 2006.

    The driver of dispossession

    Originally published: Red Pepper on October 8, 2021 by Tina Ngata (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Oct 21, 2021)

    Tina Ngata explains the social and legal legacies of a 15th-century Christian principle that paved the way for imperial violence in, and far beyond, New Zealand.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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