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The Last Issue?

Red Pepper #247 SPRING 2025

Our final quarterly print edition surveys innovations and transformations in left media past, present and future – providing inspiration for readers to guide where Red Pepper goes next.

The bumper 80-page issue also explores new left political movements rising across the UK and looks behind international news headlines with reports from Syria, Rojava, Nigeria and Georgia.

With books, regular features, previews and more, The Last Issue? goes out with a bang.

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The Last Issue?

  • Transition time for Red Pepper

    After 31 years, Red Pepper is ceasing print production. Editors Hilary Wainwright and Siobhán McGuirk explain why – and invite readers to shape what comes next

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  • Hold the press: the rise, fall and rise again of left media

    In the ever-shifting landscape and viability of print media, left-wing publications can take many forms and directions. Paula Lacey spotlights a selection of trajectories taken in…

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  • What’s left online? Content vs clickbait

    Media producers on the left must work both in and against the online content economy, argues Gerry Hart

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Essay

  • The capitalist crisis of liberal democracy

    Jenny Pearce considers how the left should respond to the failings of liberal democracy in the face of the new…

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Party Time?

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  • Can the UK left get a new party started?

    Defeated and marginalised but resilient and unbowed. What does the left do next? Connor Cameron makes the case for a new UK party of the…

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  • The only way left is always anti-racist

    Any new socialist organisation must put proletarian anti-racism at its heart and embrace utopian pragmatism, write Joshua Virasami and Jonas Marvin

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  • Meet the independent MPs and councillors shaking up local politics

    Local activists, disillusioned with the status quo, are forming political organisations independent of the Labour Party. Naomi Widressidrissi spoke to groups building connections locally and…

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International

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  • Syria’s turbulent transition

    Mazen Gharibah reports on the aftermath of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and how grassroots, civilian-led peacebuilding efforts are crucial to Syria’s future

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  • Crude injustice in the Niger Delta

    Transnational oil companies’ ‘divestment’ from Nigeria leaves behind a trail of destruction. Obiora Ikoku reports on the communities demanding reparation

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  • Georgia: the people vs the billionaire

    Alex Scrivener explains why thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets in protest against the ruling Georgian Dream party – and why they need…

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