October 2006 Archive 

(Un)funny money If you’ve got money to invest, how do you invest it ethically (apart from putting it into Red Pepper)? Fiona Osler offers a beginners’ guide to socially responsible investment

Solidarity forever Tommy Sheridan says he wants to build a different kind of organisation, not continue to fight internal battles in the SSP

A tale of two meetings At the beginning of September two rallies took place in Glasgow – one for the renewal of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) and one for Tommy Sheridan’s breakaway grouping, Solidarity. Jim Jepps was present at both

No more heroes The Scottish Socialist Party, one of the most successful political initiatives of the British left in decades, has been torn apart by its former convenor Tommy Sheridan’s libel action over sex allegations in the News of the World. Here, Roz Paterson tells the story from the perspective of those who have remained with the SSP.

A killing a day keeps democracy away Left activists in the Philippines are being killed at an alarming rate. Oscar Reyes spoke to Millet Morante, a leading figure in Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya (KPD, Movement for National Democracy) and Laban Ng Masa (Struggle of the Masses), a coalition of progressive organisations and political parties

A different kind of leader Left-wing MP John McDonnell says that he wants to ‘reclaim the Labour Party’ and is standing as leader under the campaign slogan ‘Another world is possible’. Why does he think it’s worth the effort and what’s the ‘new politics’ he’s talking about? Interview by Hilary Wainwright

Imagine there’s no leaders. It’s easy if you try... But is it? The problem of leadership runs right through this issue of Red Pepper. Three leaders representing parties of different shades of the left – Tony Blair, Tommy Sheridan and President Lula – have each arguably all but destroyed the parties they were elected to represent. Such leadership crises are part and parcel of the left tradition. So what is it about the left and its leaders? What kind of leadership do we want – or need?

Doubly tough Muslim women in India face a hard battle for equality and justice. Ari Paul reports on some of those seeking change

Globalisers with guns The heady, optimistic days of the 1990s, when the end of the cold war seemed to usher in a new era of peaceful transformation across the globe seem a long way off now. Sergio Yahni looks at the rise of ‘armed globalisation’, before and since 9/11, and the special role of Israel in the so-called ‘clash of civilisations’

iPods and ideologues There is something old and something genuinely new about David Cameron’s Conservatism. If the left is to help shape the post-Blair political climate, it will have to engage with its ideas, and not simply dismiss them, writes Oscar Reyes

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