GET RED PEPPER'S NEW ISSUE AT HOUSMAN’S 📍📚 One of London's most loved radical indie bookshops based in Kings Cross is now stocked up with Red Pepper's latest issue: Striking Back.

NEW YORKERS ‼️🗽 If you want to get your hands on our latest print issue, we are now stocked at one of the city’s most ICONIC newsstands in three locations across lower Manhattan. Pick up a copy at Iconic Magazines alongside the rest of their rare & independent magazines and publications.

Great to have my (sun-bathed) copy of the new @redpeppermag.bsky.social – the first since the switch to annual editions! – including my article on Croydon in the 1926 General Strike 🛠✊️ Buy or subscribe here: www.redpepper.org.uk/order-the-20...

"We need to understand racism as a mobile set of techniques that enable social control, popular violence and the coercive state in our time... Racism is a political project undertaken as a mode of pursuing interests and shaping outcomes." - Gargi Bhattacharyya writing in @redpeppermag.bsky.social.

I love this collaboration between @redpeppermag.bsky.social & the Raymond Williams Foundation on their Key Words series. I wrote on People's Tribunals www.redpepper.org.uk/law-police-j...

Here's my piece for @redpeppermag.bsky.social on the return of the rotten borough. English councils have an accountability problem: candidates 'elected' without a vote being cast www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa... #localelections #ukpolitics #councillors

Some of these ideas did briefly get revisited in a @redpeppermag.bsky.social piece on Raymond Williams and Rudi Dutschke, which was republished here by Monthly Review: mronline.org/2022/04/13/l...

Director @catherinehapper.bsky.social and @cairsti.bsky.social write in April's edition of @redpeppermag.bsky.social on the BBC’s historic capitulation to state intervention drawing on GUMG research - through the Falklands war, the Iraq war’s ‘dodgy dossier’ to the war on Gaza in the present day.

Red Pepper is on the move‼️🌶️ Last weekend, we marched together with hundreds of thousands of people against the far right in London. This mobilisation felt timely as ever as we explore the legacy of the 1926 General Strike, contemporary anti-racist & global protest movements in our new print issue.

There’s a reason Opinion articles & “Person says…” headlines are more common: fact-checking is widely on the wane Independent media thrives on readers’ trust, which is built on investment in publishing accurate, reliable content. Tl;dr Support publications like @redpeppermag.bsky.social 📰

At @redpeppermag.bsky.social we work on a very tight budget, but *always* prioritise accuracy/ quality over quantity of articles With #Goodwin and #AI trending, here’s why fact-checking — of the most time labour-intensive tasks in journalism — is getting harder… and why we take it so seriously 🧵📰

Palestine Action supporters arrested as London’s Met Police reverse policy Arrests come days after force announced U-turn, saying that despite High Court ruling, ‘terror’ ban remains in place. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

Human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, as part of Saturday’s nationwide “No Kings” protests
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Half a million strong. Together. The biggest march against the far-right in British history.

No Kings proves that millions are ready to march against Trump. The task now is to convince them to march not just against the king but the king’s mad war. https://bit.ly/47pgcDz

A great read, loved the piece on Raymond Williams & community education especially. But so much more too

We're back✊📚✨ I'm so proud of this new annual edition of @redpeppermag.bsky.social and the new (and old!) team behind it. Available now or order your copy here: www.redpepper.org.uk/order-the-20...

🌶️ @redpeppermag.bsky.social has returned! The latest issue, Spring 2026 - 'Striking Back', unpacks the legacy of the 1926 General Strike and other working-class mobilisations past. 👀 Explore the complete Red Pepper archive on Exact Editions.

Join Red Pepper in marching together against the far right 🌶️ We will be at the protest this Saturday with a banner at Start Zone G - welcoming any readers, friends, and indie media allies who want to walk with us 🪧 📆 Saturday 28th March 📍London

The 2026 @redpeppermag.bsky.social annual print edition has landed! So proud to be part of this work, publishing engaging left/ radical analysis in a thoroughly independent + beautifully illustrated magazine. We CAN have good things. Subscribe or buy a copy & join the conversation/ community!

Red Pepper Strikes Back! Our new print issue is out March 16th - click the link to see our stockists to pick up a copy on launch day! www.redpepper.org.uk/about/shops-...

Just received my copy! Looks great - really nicely produced, with in-depth writing on many important and interesting topics.

Red Pepper Strikes Back! Our new print issue is out March 16th - click the link to see our stockists to pick up a copy on launch day! www.redpepper.org.uk/about/shops-...

Rory Robertson-Shaw describes how DOPE magazine spreads radical left ideas while earning money for its homeless and financially precarious vendors www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

"Either we dismantle the systems of domination that are killing and dispossessing Palestinians, or we accept them through silence" In the first Breaking the Sword, clandestine organisers working in the West Bank talk settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

‘Striking back’ marks the return of Red Pepper with a new-look, extended annual print edition – included as part of all subscriptions! If you’re not a subscriber, order by 5 MARCH to guarantee pre-launch delivery, direct to your door. www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/

I loved #Sinners and loved writing this piece for @redpeppermag.bsky.social ! www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

From the archive: A look back to Iranian President Ahmadinejad failing to deliver on his 2005 election promise to ‘put the oil money on the people’s tables’. Western aggression is a godsend for his regime, write Andreas Malm and Shora Esmailian www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

"Coogler disrupts the cosy narratives of ‘victimhood and sufferance’ associated with the Irish diaspora" Ryan Coogler’s thriller highlights how Irish people were often complicit in colonial violence against black and indigenous peoples www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

We're back lads, and with an absolute banger of an issue.

Red Pepper returns to print. 'Striking back' explores 100 years since the 1926 General Strike, migration justice, repression in Latin America and wars for oil in Nigeria and Iran. Culture critics take on film, TV, music and books. Order by 5 March to guarantee pre-launch delivery to your door!

A wonderful historical account if you want to know about the significance of US imperialism in Cuba today & also it's Latin American context 'Without Cuba, then, no Venezuela and without Venezuela, no Bolivia, no Ecuador, and no rebirth of Sandinista Nicaragua'

"With a worsening economic situation and lack of political and civil liberties the fundamental issues behind the uprising remain" Despite crackdowns, Iran’s dictatorship is the weakest in decades. Bahram Soroush examines how the left might chart a path to power www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

From the archive: Behind the bloody headlines of Mexico’s war on drugs, creeping militarism and corruption is silencing public dissent. Government policy failures are leading to social breakdown, writes @siobhan.bsky.social with Maria Felix www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

From the archive: ""A jellyfish with no shape, substance or sting – but for that reserved for attacking the left. Cucked by the right of the party, his enduring legacy is that of bankrupting Labour" Ben Smoke questions what is driving the Labour leader www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

Red Pepper returns to print. 'Striking back' explores 100 years since the 1926 General Strike, migration justice, repression in Latin America and wars for oil in Nigeria and Iran. Culture critics take on film, TV, music and books. Order by 28 February to guarantee pre-launch delivery to your door!

From the archive: Following the 15 year anniversary of the ban on collective organising, Rahul Mahajan looks at the fightback against the Scott Walker’s Budget Repair Bill in Wisconsin www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...

"It’s [the cultural boycott] about manifesting a united cultural front against genocide and imperialism" A coalition of artists, gallery employees, and other culture industry workers are refusing to let the Scottish Arts sector stay silent on Palestine, an organiser tells Red Pepper

From the archive: Following the US escalation of its blockade against Cuba, a look back from Diana Raby in 2008 about those who deny the legitimacy of the Cuban system will never understand why, after 50 years, the revolution is still an ongoing reality www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

"In our era of compounding crises and state abandonment, there are a lot of lessons we can take from the Blitz" The Communist Party led efforts to secure shelter for Londoners amidst the Blitz. Fergus Lamb examines the impact and legacy of its success www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

The much-missed Jeremy Hardy died seven years ago. In addition to his Radio 4 work, he had a column for @redpeppermag.bsky.social - here are some highlights:

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Concerns about misleading AI and influencer ‘content’ on health, welfare and civil rights miss a wider issue, argues Sophia McHardy. They fill a human-made gap that risks becoming an austerity-shaped chasm www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

From the archive: "‘You can’t make a commodity out of a basic human right. We have a government that tries to maximise profit from what they see as a human resource to drain" Sheldon Ridley spoke to students demonstrating over the student debt crisis. www.redpepper.org.uk/society/educ...

Police monitoring organisations are exposing Scotland’s repression of Palestine solidarity movements and challenging a ‘supportive’ national self-image, says Betsy Barkas www.redpepper.org.uk/law-police-j...

Tomorrow! Join RPM editors at Declassified UK’s first summit ‘Challenging the War Machine’ in London on Saturday 31st January 2026. For anyone interested in understanding the structures and systems that underpin the drive to war, and how we challenge it. secure.declassifieduk.org/page/180663/...

Join RPM editors at Declassified UK’s first summit ‘Challenging the War Machine’ at EarTH in London on Saturday 31st January 2026. For anyone interested in understanding the structures and systems that underpin the drive to war, and how we challenge it. secure.declassifieduk.org/page/180663/...

From the archive: In the face of mounting murders by ICE a look at this excerpt from The End of Politicking . The police spend little of their time making arrests, and most crimes are not solved, writes Alex Vitale – their real purpose is social control www.redpepper.org.uk/law-police-j...

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