Palestine
Red Pepper #243 Spring 2024
The latest Red Pepper is an unambiguous, anti-imperialist and internationalist response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, featuring Toufic Haddad, Helga Tawil-Souri, Maura Finkelstein and more.
Elsewhere, David Edgerton and John McDonnell MP survey challenges ahead under a likely Labour government, plus Portugal’s 1974 ‘carnation revolution’, book reviews, regulars and an exclusive, previously unpublished text written by Stuart Hall.
In this issue
Palestine
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For Palestine, bring the Hague home!
The genocide in Gaza demands we fight for Palestine, by targeting circuits of power elsewhere. Toufic Haddad writes from Jerusalem
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Palestine in poetry and prose
Palestinian literature has long provided space for resistance, healing, and growth, write Margarita Isabel Asensio Pastor and Eman Mhanna
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Islamophobia and spectacles of Muslim death
Bad-faith policing of anti-semitism has led to rampant Islamophobia. In the global north, we have become conditioned to watching Muslims die, argues Maura Finkelstein
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Essay
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Portugal’s forgotten revolution
The ‘carnation revolution’ saw soldiers, workers and communities join forces to overthrow fascism and challenge capitalist power. Peter Robinson traces…
In this issue
Labour
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Keir Starmer’s bad history
With his insights as a historian of the modern UK, David Edgerton looks at Labour’s new affinity with the Tories
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The economic crisis facing Labour
Labour’s spending plans are inadequate to rebuild public services. We need to new movements for more radical change, argue John McDonnell MP and Andrew Fisher
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Culture
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Listening with Stuart Hall
The academic and activist died ten years ago. Dialogue and engagement were among his many lasting gifts, write Yasmin Gunaratnam and Mike Dibb
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Stuart Hall reviews ‘Shadows’
In this previously unpublished text, written in 1961, Stuart Hall surveys rhythmic interplays of race, culture, love and power in the film Shadows
