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Warfare’s waste is welfare’s loss
Labour claims that boosting military spending will produce employment growth. Far from it, argues Richard Norton Taylor, it funnels money to private contractors that should fund public services
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Key words: Dual Power
Wayne Price unpacks a concept that lies at the heart of much of Marxist and anarchist thinking on how to overthrow capitalism
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Mother Mary Comes to Me – review
In her first memoir, Arundhati Roy grapples with the complex forces, both global and close to home, which formed her – including her remarkable and often-abusive mother, writes Nandita Lal
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No neutral ground: sport is political in Israel’s war on Gaza
Nicola De Martini Ugolotti and Max Mauro report on the movement to ban Israel from international sports – and to interrupt projections of normalcy as genocide unfolds in Gaza
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The Firm and its long-lasting grip
Laura Clancy examines the history of the Crown, its role in empire and its continuing functional and ideological purpose today
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The blood never dries
While our government wants us to step back and forget what we know about the violence of Britain’s imperial state, Richard Gott says it’s time for a much deeper reckoning
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Sudan’s lost revolution
The hopes of the grassroots, citizens’ revolution have given way to the brutality and violence of rentier elites in Sudan, writes Raga Makawi
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About Red Pepper
Red Pepper magazine is a website of left politics and culture. The quarterly print edition was published 1994-2025.
We draw on socialist, feminist, green and anti-racist politics.
We seek to be a space for debate on the left, a resource for movements for social justice, and a home for open-minded anti-capitalists.