Red Pepper Media editors look back on the surprises and under the radar moments of 2025 – and share predictions and hopes for ...

After years of waiting for change, friends and family of people who 'died in police custody' are demanding justice, writes ...

On 20 April, the verdict that so many had hoped and wished for was delivered: Derek Chauvin was found guilty of killing George Floyd. Some commentators have declared this as a ‘milestone’, a step to ...

In December 1948, a group of prominent US Jews, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, wrote a letter to the New York Times expressing concern over the emergence of ‘The Freedom Party’ (Tnuat ...

I was 15 when I attended my first Radiohead concert in Dublin and was thrilled to see a Free Tibet banner hanging on the stage. In 2000, this was a cause celebre and my little activist heart – usually ...

This letter to Extinction Rebellion was collaboratively written with dozens of aligned groups. As the weeks of action called by Extinction Rebellion were coming to an end, our groups came together to ...

The Soviet Union, in the 74 years of its existence in one form or another, was a society that was all about building. The Soviets claimed in the 1970s to have ‘built’ socialism, and while they never ...

The epithet ‘tankie’ began as an insult from one group of communists to another. It was coined by those in the Communist Party of Great Britain who opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw ...

Firstly, the films have been made through a strong partnership between Paul Laverty [screenwriter], Rebecca O’Brien [producer] and myself. It’s very important to say that it’s really not about me as ...

In Carmen Maria Machado’s 2021 prize-winning memoir In The Dream House, the author writes that, ‘What is placed in or left out of the archive is a political act, dictated by the archivist and the ...

In the weeks leading up to Together for Palestine, we concert organisers kept on encountering the same exhilarating problem: the show was expanding faster than any of us had anticipated. Word spread, ...