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  • | Parliament | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 ZAUM | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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.

  • | Flooding in Tilff Belgium July 2021 Photo Regine Fabri licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 40 | MR Online

    The Global North isn’t ready for climate breakdown

    Originally published: Red Pepper on September 23, 2021 by Aranyo Aarjan (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Oct 01, 2021)

    European responses to extreme weather demonstrate post-industrial nations have much to learn from people in the Global South, writes Aranyo Aarjan.

  • | A United Fruit Company promotional for a plantation in Jamaica Credit Boston Webster | MR Online

    A short, sordid history of brands and warfare

    Originally published: Red Pepper on September 12, 2021 by Tommy Hodgson (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Sep 15, 2021)

    Burger King’s foray into recent conflict in Azerbaijan is part of a historical trend of corporations weighing in–and benefitting from–conflict, writes Tommy Hodgson

  • | Farmers protesting Indias new agricultural laws in 2020 | MR Online

    India’s data harvest

    Originally published: Red Pepper on August 25, 2021 by Dr. Bikrum Gill (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Sep 07, 2021)

    New platforms and data analytics are helping big agribusiness take over Indian agriculture. Ordinary farmers are losing out, writes Bikrum Gill.

  • | Imperial Federation map showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886 by Walter Crane | MR Online

    The blood never dries

    Originally published: Red Pepper on August 19, 2021 by Richard Gott (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2021)

    While our government wants us to step back and forget what we know about the violence of Britain’s imperial state, Richard Gott says it’s time for a much deeper reckoning.

  • | Picton Library Liverpool Image Terry Kearney | MR Online

    The working-class voices publishing against the grain

    Originally published: Red Pepper on June 28, 2021 by Luke Charnley (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Jul 07, 2021)

    Luke Charnley reports on the new publishing houses getting working-class writers onto the printed page.

  • | Paint Your Town Red How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too | MR Online

    Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too

    Originally published: Red Pepper on June 18, 2021 by Hilary Wainwright (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Jun 18, 2021)

    In this timely book, Matthew Brown and Rhian E. Jones explore new forms of democratic collectivism across the UK, writes Hilary Wainwright.

  • | Demonstrators eating communal food at the Plaza Baquedano in 2019 Credit José Venegas CC BY SA 40 | MR Online

    The communal cooking pot

    Originally published: Red Pepper on May 24, 2021 by Jumanah Younis (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted May 26, 2021)

    In Chile, community food networks and mutual aid tell us that the revolution starts close to home writes Jumanah Younis

  • | Emma Dowling takes on in her new book The Care Crisis what caused it and how can we end it | MR Online

    Review – The Care Manifesto, The Care Crisis

    Originally published: Red Pepper on April 27, 2021 by Emily Kenway (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Apr 29, 2021)

    Reviewing two recent books on care in the 21st century, Emily Kenway suggests the only solution to the current crisis lies in a full-scale reorganization of our political economy.

  • | Lynne Segal | MR Online

    Being Jewish in North Islington Labour Party

    Originally published: Red Pepper on November 3, 2020 by Lynne Segal (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Nov 06, 2020)

    Calling for Jeremy Corbyn’s reinstatement, Lynne Segal looks back on her experience of 40 years as a party member in his constituency.

  • | The Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Bovingdon Primary Academy in Hemel Hempstead during Covid 19 Picture by Andrew Parsons No 10 Downing Street | MR Online

    Authoritarianism is creeping into classrooms

    Originally published: Red Pepper on October 3, 2020 by Remi Joseph Salisbury (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Oct 10, 2020)

    New curriculum guidance will limit critical thinking and cement a neoliberal capitalist consensus. It should be setting off alarm bells, says Remi Joseph-Salisbury

  • | Chief Howilhkat Freda Huson and her sister Chief Geltiy Brenda Michell stand in ceremony while she waits for police to enforce Coastal GasLinks injunction at Unistoten Healing Centre near Houston BC on Saturday February 8 2020 Amber Bracken | MR Online

    All eyes on Wet’suwet’en

    Originally published: Red Pepper on September 10, 2020 by Suzanne Dhaliwal (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Sep 18, 2020)

    Suzanne Dhaliwal, in collaboration with Indigenous Climate Action, explains how the struggle to end Canada’s colonial violence is continuing in the face of fossil fuel extractivism.

  • | Illustration by Tom Lynton | MR Online

    Democracy in Focus: Follow the dark money…

    Originally published: Red Pepper on January 10, 2020 by Adam Ramsay (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Feb 19, 2020)

    Greater Britain, as we might call it, has over the past 70 years transformed itself from the largest-ever land empire to a sprawling financial one: a network of tax havens and money laundries stashing cash for the world’s oligarchs, mafiosi, gangsters and hedge funds.

  • | Photo Extinction Rebellion | MR Online

    It’s time to add global justice to XR’s demands

    Originally published: Red Pepper on October 10, 2019 by Aranyo Aarjan (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Oct 12, 2019)

    Extinction Rebellion must recognise the impacts of colonialism and capitalism, and demand a just transition for all, argues Aranyo Aarjan

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