Trump and Rubio are set on regime change in Cuba by year's end. Today, Helen Yaffe asks: what could the revolutionary people of Cuba achieve if they were left in peace - and finally given the chance to prosper, not just survive? Read the full story 🌶️ 🇨🇺 www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

"Cuba's only threat to the United States is as a good example." As US government warmongering reaches a fever pitch unseen since the 1962 Missile Crisis, Helen Yaffe writes on Cuba's response to ongoing psychological warfare. Read in full now 🌶️ 🔗 www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

I wrote about @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social's essential new book, and the importance of strategic pluralism, dealing with defeat, and talking to our elders, for @redpeppermag.bsky.social: www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

24th June sees the launch of the latest Glasgow Media Group (@gu-mg.bsky.social) investigation, edited by @catherinehapper.bsky.social, @pauljreilly.bsky.social and Alison Eldridge. Organised with @redpeppermag.bsky.social, and with @lauraewebster.bsky.social as special guest. Sign up now!

Come and hear about the #GUMG's latest research on media and the cost of living crisis with @redpeppermag.bsky.social and editor of the National @lauraewebster.bsky.social . 24th June at Glasgow University Union (GUU).

🔊 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🔊 Join us on June 24th for the launch of Glasgow University Media Group's new book: Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis, where we'll be joined by guest Laura Webster, Editor of The National. Tickets are free - reserve your spot now! 🔗🎫: buytickets.at/redpepper/22...

📓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Glasgow University Media Group & Red Pepper Media present: Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📓 Join us for a special book launch as we discuss media power, resistance and the future of journalism with special guest, Laura Webster (Editor of The National). 24 JUNE, 6-7.30PM TIX LINK IN BIO

"I'm worried for them. They don't know how to be defeated." Rebecca Jane Morgan's account of the fight for legal recognition for trans people in the UK offers important lessons for today's activists, writes Kit Heyam. Read in full now 🌶️ #transrights #lgbtq www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

“It takes a lot of time to understand defeat,” writes historian, heritage facilitator and educator Kit Heyam. He reviews a new @plutopress.bsky.social book on the history of trans activism in Britain, a timely resource for contemporary activists. www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

The generational divide in British politics is often explained away as typical: young people lean left and grow conservative with age. Looking at the rise of #indie rock star Chloe Slater, John Newsham dives into the politics of young #Britain. www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

Chloe Slater's songs are addictive. But what sets her apart from other young songwriters is hinted, first, in her songs' titles. In our latest issue, John Newsham dives into political messaging, generational tensions & deepening class conflict. 🔗 www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

What would happen if we moved beyond stigmatising addiction as an individual failure? Suspicion toward sobriety on the left often draws on its association with neo-liberal respectability. But these associations do not exhaust what sobriety can mean. 🔗 www.redpepper.org.uk/society/heal...

"Addiction doesn't sit outside politics," explains British-Jamaican writer William Rayfet Hunter. In our latest online story, Hunter opens up a vital conversation on the radical politics and potential of sobriety. Read in full now 🌶️ #sobriety #addiction #sober www.redpepper.org.uk/society/heal...

If you're worried about #AI, then subscribe to magazines so that they can pay more human writers. This month, Grace Byron speaks to Red Pepper on cultural criticism, transphobia and Trump. Read the full interview now 🌶️ www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

In a new interview, Red Pepper co-editor Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin speaks to writer Grace Byron about trans representation, artificial intelligence, and the role of criticism in an age of moral panic. Read in full 🌶️ #culture #trump #transphobia 🔗 www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

The call for a general strike used to be heard often on the left. What would be required to build one today? In our latest print issue, Matthew Lee suggests organising the 'unorganised' and taking on the state. Read now 🌶️ #strike #boycott 🔗 www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...

"The 'self-employed' nature of many gig workers makes joining a strike as simple as logging off an app." 100 years on from the 1926 General Strike, @versobooks.bskysocial author Matthew Lee asks what it would take to build one today. Read now 🌶️ #strike www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...

In the second half of 2025, #activists managed to stop or delay 20 #datacentre projects across the U.S. In today's piece, the Barcelona Action Circle on Labour share their reflections on growing multinational resistance to #AI. 🔗 www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

"Data centres have become the newest frontier for exploiting the natural world."🤖 In our latest story, the Barcelona Action Circle on Labour go behind the 'intelligent' chatbot, to highlight multinational resistance efforts to AI. Read now 🌶️ #datacentres #ai www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

Full house at Chesterfield May Day Gala! 🌶️ May 4, 2026 marked 100 years since workers led the only General Strike this country has seen... to date. Thank you to all who joined us to discuss the beating heart of our new annual print edition last week! Get your own copy today - hit the l!nk IN bi0🔗

Last week, we joined the Chesterfield May Day Gala to celebrate the General Strike centenary - the beating heart of our annual print edition - connecting with long-time subscribers & new readers. These community events are essential for the future to look left. Thank you to all who joined us!

"Bolsonaro's tenure created an urgent need for theatre makers to address burgeoning social issues," explains playwright Filipe Pereira in a new interview. Read his reflections on the challenges of left theatre-making in Brazil's evolving political landscape ⬇️ 🇧🇷 www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

The Red Scare was, and remains, very present in Brazil. Luke Lewin Davies and Jenny Futuro interview São Paulo-based playwright Filipe Pereira on theatre and political transformations in the country. Read now ⬇️ 🎭️ www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

Despite Scotland's lack of power over immigration policy, migrant justice remains central to the 2026 election. Cailean Gallagher reports on immigration, employment and the limits of Holyrood. Read now ⬇️ www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

"To leave migration matters for Westminster elections is a way of muting the people most affected by them." Scottish Left Review's Cailean Gallagher writes on immigration, employment & the limits of Holyrood in our latest Scottish Elections coverage. Read now ⬇️ www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

"Britain today is a hugely different place compared to the 1920s, yet current political and international crises have familiar parallels." @newcastleuni.bsky.social 's Joe Redmayne writes on Trades councils and the 1926 #GeneralStrike. Read now ⬇️ www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the 1926 #GeneralStrike. Originally printed in our newly released issue: Striking Back, @joeredmayne.bsky.social 's article 'Their hour of glory' looks at the role of trades councils in this historic moment. Read now ⬇️ www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...

Militarisation makes us all less secure. As wars escalate and military spending booms, Karen Bell takes aim at the deterrence myth and rethinks the concept of 'security.' www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

"When the conjuncture shifts, everything shifts." From Stuart Hall to Louis Althusser, several theorists have used the concept of conjuncture to analyse social formations. Now, Chris Goldie unpacks the term for our Key Words series. www.redpepper.org.uk/key-words/ke...

"While the UK spends more on defence than almost any other country, thousands of children live in Dickensian levels of poverty." Karen Bell surveys alternatives to militarisation and explains the real meaning of security for workers. www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

When everything shifts at once... how do you make sense of it? As part of our Key Words series, supported by The Raymond Williams Foundation, Chris Goldie unpacks the concept of conjuncture. www.redpepper.org.uk/key-words/ke...

The convenient myth of civic nationalism has allowed Holyrood to ignore the rising threat of Reform for too long. Glasgow-based writer & editor Coll McCail reports ahead of the 2026 May elections. www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

"At May's election, sizeable elements of the Scottish population threaten to defy the conventional telling of their own national story." As part of our #2026elections coverage, Skotia's Coll McCail writes on the soul search for Scottish political identity. www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

"All scheduled local elections are set to go ahead in May 2026. The deeper question is whether all voters will get a real choice when they do." Andy Brain reports on how candidates in 'uncontested seats' are being elected into power without a vote being cast. www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

English councils have an accountability problem. In the lead-up to the May 7th local #ukelections, Red Pepper co-editor Andy Brain reports on the district he grew up in - also known as the country's most infamous 'rotten borough.'

BREAKING Mixed verdicts in the retrial of the first six Filton 24 defendants 🧵

Why are Prisons allowed to charge for telephone calls between inmates and their families? An additional punishment in my estimation that does not appear to be constitutional.

On Thursday, Reform UK are set to win upwards of a dozen seats across Scotland. I've written for @redpeppermag.bsky.social about what that means for a country which swore it would never join the 'race to the right'.

I wrote about the General Strike in Croydon for @redpeppermag.bsky.social: www.redpepper.org.uk/archive/stri.... For my talk, I also drew upon the excellent new history by Edd Mustill, which describes South London as a "hotbed of sabotage and vandalism"! oneworld-publications.com/work/britain...

Wrote this last year for @redpeppermag.bsky.social but it really does bear emphatically repeating that we are now several years into a concerted, top-down backlash against the meagre gains of the neurodiversity movement and it needs to be vigorously countered. www.redpepper.org.uk/society/disa...

How can the left successfully challenge Reform in local and devolved elections? Part two of our interview series with local elections candidates and canvassers ahead of the May polls is out now ⤵️ www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

In our latest #localelections coverage, candidates and campaigners debate local alternatives to Labour and Reform. Dig deeper into democracy and read the full conversation now with Jane Marshall (Broxtowe Alliance), Tim Hunt (Green Party) & others ⤵️ www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

Big thanks to @redpeppermag.bsky.social for highlighting my new book Postcapitalist Cities in the latest issue! It’s in some very esteemed company. Remember, if you want to buy it, go to the MUP website and use code AUTHOR50 for 50% off

"Who are terrorists? What does it mean to call somebody one?" Red Pepper interviews Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina on the power of music and political will at a time of war, rising authoritarianism and right-wing radicalisation 🎙️✊️ #pussyriot #russia #ukraine www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

Some may wonder where Trump gets his political inspiration from. In an interview with Russian activist Maria Alyokhina, she gives us a hint: "Western regimes are happy to copy Putin's approach. If you look at Trump, he calls all of his opponents terrorists." www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

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In less than a month, local elections take place across the UK 🗳️ In this interview with Green, Labour & Independent candidates on their recent canvassing experiences, Red Pepper asks what it means for us to think global and vote local at the ballot box. www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

How can the left make use of local & devolved government? 🧩 As part of our local elections coverage, we ask Beth Winter(Independent), Tim Hunt(Green Party), Jane Marshall(Broxtowe Alliance), Dave Kellaway(HISC) & an anonymous contributor for their thoughts 👀 www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

"I want to see power back in the communities we are elected to serve, with people having control over their lives, and over the wealth created." ✊️ Ahead of polling day on May 7th, Red Pepper asks what the left can achieve in local & devolved government ⤵️ www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

"I am someone who always wants to fight back."🎙️ Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina co-founded investigative media outlet Mediazona to cover human rights abuses in Russia. She speaks to Red Pepper on the power of political will at a time of rising authoritarianism. www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...