Oxfam says billionaires are not only wealthier than ever they also have more influence over politics and own most major news and social media companies www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

From the archive: The history of denial is as long as the history of intervention – and that goes back to the first decades of the republic Mike Marqusee looks at the long history of US politicians’ denial of their country’s imperial reach www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

Fed up with the mainstream media? Support radical, challenging, independent media instead! Pay what you can subscription gives you an annual edition, access to our extensive archive plus exclusive newsletters and content. www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/

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/...

"Only one officer has ever been successfully prosecuted for murder or manslaughter post-1986" After years of waiting for change, loved ones of people who ‘died in police custody’ are coming together to demand justice from the police writes James Whitfield www.redpepper.org.uk/law-police-j...

What to expect in 2026? As the new year clicks into gear, Red Pepper editors look back on the surprises and under the radar moments of 2025 – and share predictions and hopes for 2026 www.redpepper.org.uk/society/educ...

It's depressing how much UK political messaging relies, not on promising better services, but by planting the suspicion that someone, somewhere, is getting something you didn't. We're told to expect next to nothing from the state, to the extent that supporting vulnerable children is framed as theft.

Lastly, this administration blantantly lying and calling Good a "domestic terrorist" demonstrates that how one protests really doesn't matter. If this president wants to invoke the insurrection act and escalate violence against citizens, then he'll do it no matter how "nonviolently" one protests

I am horrified by the murder of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent. This is what fascism looks like in real time, where a far-right government emboldens a violent death squad to terrorise communities with impunity.

The only acceptable Keynesianism to the Labour right is military / weaponised Keynesianism. Impossible to harness state capacity for jobs & infrastructure in eg the NHS, council housing, social care or education. But loadsa cash to funnel to arms manufacturers to build munitions that'll gather dust

What did your family do in the General Strike? For our first annual print edition, Red Pepper will be covering the centenary of 1926 and we want to include some personal experience alongside the history. Email [email protected] with your story.

CALLING PHOTOGRAPHERS! At the heart of movements who have a political visual story to tell – underrepresented stories to the front! A chance for your photo essay to run in our upcoming print edition. Please send a 100 word pitch + 2 sample links to [email protected]

A US government desperate to topple Maduro is deploying military force alongside ‘war on drugs’ rhetoric. We must unite against the latest moves in a longstanding offensive, argues Francisco Dominguez www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

It’s at least refreshing that they don’t bother to bullshit us about freedom and justice any more. Yes, we are getting rid of the Palestinians so we can build hotels on their land. Yes, we are collapsing this government so our companies can loot their resources. This is what it always was, mask off.

Here come the savage wars of peace again

Think it's really striking that whilst for most of the post-war period the material policy differences between the Conservatives and Labour were not that big, both parties still spoke in identifiably different ways, had their own idiom, imagined the public differently. Not now.

Amazon’s Black Friday-January Sales consumerism juggernaut is uniting campaigners. Robbie Gillett charts the corporation’s varied crimes from tax avoidance to exploitation www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...

We would love to hear from anyone whose family or local community took part in the strike and have memories, thoughts or stories to offer – or even photos or news clippings from the time. Email [email protected] with your story.

What did your family do in the General Strike? For our first annual print edition, Red Pepper will be covering the centenary of 1926 and we want to include some personal experience alongside the history. Please send contributions of 50-100 words to [email protected] by the end of January.

Merry Christmas to all picket lines. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RfM...

Merry Christmas all and here's to a brighter new year. Also "Veiled in flesh the God-head see" is a hell of a line, eh.

Explore Charles Booth’s maps and notebooks online ✍️🏻 This is a brilliant resource for those interested in social history 🔎 booth.lse.ac.uk/map #London #History

Spoil a socialist! Liberate a liberal! Convert a conservative! The gift of Red Pepper keeps giving all year long… All from just £30 for the 2025 holidays! www.redpepper.org.uk/gift-subscri...

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

If you taxed every Billionaire in the UK so they only had £1bn you would get £1.1tn, an entire year’s worth of tax revenue. It would affect only 173 People. Tax the Rich, they’ve stolen all the money and dodged tax for decades. It‘s time for payback.

"Together, we hope Lullaby will also help keep Gaza very much in our hearts and minds" Artist and songwriter Brian Eno reports on Together for Palestine and the campaign propelling an Arabic Lullaby into the charts www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

It’s so utterly gross how many incredibly senior UK politicians go into lobbying. It’s simply corrupt.

From the archive: A look back at the Stansted 15. An abolitionist politics seeks to end the violence of the state in systems like prison and immigration detention, and build towards a world without them, write Ru Kaur and Ali Tamlit (30 December 2018) www.redpepper.org.uk/law-police-j...

Whatever happens at the Your Party inaugural conference, its seeds are growing into roots across the UK. John Stephens reports on the branch members forging their own paths to action www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

From the archive: Keval Bharadia argues for a super-tax on financial markets to curb extreme inequality in the wake of Covid-19 (29 May 2020) www.redpepper.org.uk/society/heal...

From the Archive: Amid global economic crisis, business is booming in the gaming industry. It’s time to step up the fight for worker’s rights, Emma Kinema tells Marzena Zukowska (6 October 2020) www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

Looking for a gift with some political bite? A Red Pepper gift subscription delivers all year: exclusives, a spring bumper issue, full archive access, and membership in a vibrant radical community. Special Xmas 2025 discount from £30 → www.redpepper.org.uk/gift-subscri...

From the archive: The people could reach a democratic and non-violent solution if they were freed from US meddling, argues Boaventura de Sousa Santos. (8 August 2017) www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

In the late 19th and early 20th century, kings, prime ministers and the ruling class fell victim to assassins who hoped to foment revolution through ‘propaganda of the deed’. Blood Work host Gregk Foley traces how it shapes political violence today www.redpepper.org.uk/key-words/ke...

From the archive: It's the tenth anniversary of the conclusion of COP21, which saw the formulation of the Paris Climate Agreement. Here, a look at our coverage from that time by Oscar Reyes (14 December 2015) www.redpepper.org.uk/environment-...

My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

The 90s seem like a fever dream at times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqU7...

Calling all the UK public library workers! 📚 Seeking participants for UCL MA Library and Information Studies research project #LibraryScience #Libraries #LibraryLife #LIS #LibraryTwitter #LibTech #UCL #EDI #Librarians #LibraryStaff #CulturalHeritage #PublicLibraries #Research

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

The oligarchy's goal is to turn everything into assets they can profit from. Even our thoughts.

The political and media class are basically desperate for any evidence that it's the phones that have caused all of the problems, from why people hate the mainstream parties to mental health issues. All while they've clearly been radicalised in part by social media.

📣 New Podcast! "1 December 1919: Trinidad and Tobago general strike" on @Spreaker #black #history #trinidad

always worth reminding that Blue Labour aren't just conservatives, they are actually insane people.

“Women’s bodies are the new battleground as Nigel Farage aligns with the US hard-right. His link to the group that toppled Roe v. Wade puts UK reproductive freedom at serious risk” www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

We have written a special report looking at the people behind Reform in Wales. This was a bizarre piece to write. willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...

What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections? New CFP from Paper Trails here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026 🗃️

Interesting ("interesting") too of course, to see media constructions swing this easily and uncritically away from characterisations of "the left behind" - a shifting of political blame for the effects of austerity - and back to the type of rhetoric used to justify austerity in the first place.

Again: 'immigration' is not a real political topic. 'Immigration' is a container, for all of the problems of late stage neoliberalism - underfunded public services, degraded housing, low pay, social disintegration etc - all packaged together, and blamed on the very least powerful people in society.

Examining the role Britain plays in the war in Sudan | Peter Sagar northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...

The junta regimes of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger present themselves as revolutionary and anti-imperialist. Their hollow rhetoric masks authoritarianism and new forms of foreign influence, argues Joshua Shangobiyi www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...