Red Pepper (UK)

Red Pepper is a UK-based independent magazine known for its "radical red and green" perspective. While it was originally published monthly for many years, it transitioned to a bi-monthly format in 2007.

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No short cuts: Does the British left really need a new party?

1 month ago | redpepper.org.uk | Hilary Wainwright

The left in the UK has a fatal attraction to shortcuts. In 1906 the left-wing Independent Labour Party (ILP) joined the Labour Representation Committee, the trade union dominated committee that founded the Labour Party, because it believed that the Labour Party, with its trade union affiliations, provided socialists with the organised working class as captive audience – and thereby a shortcut to socialism.
The war on neurodiversity

1 month ago | redpepper.org.uk | Gerry Hart

Even for the most cynical among us, it is hard to deny that neurodiversity (i.e. the idea that there is no singular human neurology and conditions such as autism, ADHD or dyslexia are a part of the human condition as opposed to illnesses) has made remarkable progress over the past few decades in terms of public recognition.
Why mentorship matters in journalism

2 months ago | redpepper.org.uk | Jeevan Sangha

Journalism has a diversity problem. That’s not a new revelation. According to a 2023 survey by the Canadian Association of Journalists, 76 per cent of the country’s newsrooms have no visible minority or Indigenous person in a senior leadership role. Men take up more than half of these roles, while racialised journalists are far more likely to hold part-time and intern positions than full-time and supervisory roles.
Transition time for Red Pepper

Feb 28, 2025 | redpepper.org.uk | Hilary Wainwright

In 1994, it was possible – though challenging – to launch a monthly print magazine. Market-led politics were already eroding the welfare state but it still offered sufficient security for people to have time to volunteer as editors and writers. We could keep printing costs low by using a supplier associated with a sympathetic foundation.
What's left online? Content vs clickbait

Feb 28, 2025 | redpepper.org.uk | Gerry Hart

One of the perceived benefits of online media production is democratisation, whereby previous mechanisms of gatekeeping and exclusion can be circumvented with an internet connection. While a vibrant ecosystem of left-wing bloggers, podcasters and video essayists exists across YouTube, Twitch and TikTok (see issue 246), the mooted rise of an online left able to challenge the alt right has not met expectations.
Blurred Lines: A view from the comment section

Feb 25, 2025 | redpepper.org.uk | Rhian E. Jones

Like many things enabled in the idealistic early days of Web 2.0, the opportunity for public responses to mainstream journalism via the comments section wasn’t a bad idea to begin with. But under the particular business model of left-leaning newspapers like the one where I worked in the 2010s, comment sections became a battleground in the emerging ‘culture war’. Let’s start with the headlines.
Kanaky Rising: A timeline of struggle

Feb 13, 2025 | redpepper.org.uk | Gerry Hart

Captain James Cook lands on Kanaky, naming the island ‘New Caledonia’ after the Latin name for Scotland. Admiral Auguste Febvrier-Despointes declares French sovereignty over Kanaky in the name of Emperor Louis Napoleon III. Nickel is discovered by Jules Garnier. As of 2024, Kanaky holds between of the world’s known nickel reserves, making up 90 per cent of the territory’s exports. Following the suppression of the Paris Commune, many communards are exiled to Kanaky.
Quotas, protests and political monsters in Bangladesh

Dec 3, 2024 | redpepper.org.uk | Nafis Hasan

The brief history of Bangladesh is punctuated with mobilisations that have upended political hegemonies. The common denominator among all these historical events – the language movement (1952), the liberation war (1971), the ouster of dictators (1969, 1989-1990) – remains a vanguard of students. Student power has been the driving force at critical junctures of Bangladesh’s history, and undoubtedly, a major political force in the intervals.
Breaking up with my X

Dec 2, 2024 | redpepper.org.uk | Tom Whyman

I joined Twitter in December 2010, at the height of the student fees protests. After a friend had some moderately incendiary tweets shared by a Guardian liveblog (or something like that), I wanted in on the action. As an undergraduate, my friends and I used to compete to get the stupidest letters printed in the student newspaper, and the Twitter game just seemed like an extension of that: winning would mean shouting something loud enough to catch the attention of the press.
The Truth About Empire - review

Nov 6, 2024 | redpepper.org.uk | Peter Mitchell

When the retired Oxford theologian Nigel Biggar published Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning in 2021, it marked an apogee of a long-drawn culture war over the British imperial record. Biggar had spent the past few years fashioning himself into a figurehead for a certain strain of imperial apologetics which by 2021 had coalesced into a well-organised culture-war ecology of think tanks, media and politicians with well-funded links to the global reactionary right.