Clifford Singer

Jun 1, 2024 | redpepper.org.uk | Tony Cook |Dee Searle |Clifford Singer |Hilary Wainwright

In the early 1990s, after decades of unbroken Tory rule and a defensive Labour leadership increasingly echoing Thatcherite attitudes, a feeling of disenfranchisement was strong among the radical, green and feminist left. Following the 1992 closure of its predecessor, Socialist (a short-lived fortnightly paper borne out of the Chesterfield Socialist Conferences), the Red Pepper founders set out to establish a new alternative publication as an antidote to a frustrated and fractured left.