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  • Graphics from video games in a montage with people laughing playing a game

    How to stop getting played

    Games and play are everywhere under neoliberal capitalism. But they can also show us the way to a better future, argues Keir Milburn

  • A stylised red flag waving on black background

    Red Pepper: how it all began

    The founders of Red Pepper – Tony Cook, Dee Searle, Clifford Singer and Hilary Wainwright – reflect on the birth of the magazine in 1994

  • On a pale yellow background there is a collage of images from Birmingham. One is a blue plaque for the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and others are buildings with radical grafitti on them.

    Four quarters of radical Birmingham

    The ‘Gramscian project’ of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, established in 1964 by Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart at the University of Birmingham, left an indelible mark on the city. Josh Allen surveys its enduring radical edge

  • Writing - featuring laptop, phone, notebook, pen and coffee mug on table

    Social media and disability: the good side

    Kerry Martin Millan explores how online spaces can provide community and nurture confidence among creatives with disabilities

  • On a teal background there is a photo of someone holding a sign. The sign says 'TUC - stand down perpetrators!'.

    Radical reels: an interview with Reel News

    An anonymous activist from the video collective Reel News describes how it has supported various campaigns since the pathbreaking rise of indie media

  • Former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (left) and former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls (right) recording the pilot episode of their podcast Political Currency

    First as tragedy, second as podcasts

    Politicians keep launching podcasts. The medium’s veneer of authenticity only works to reinforce establishment discourse, argues Daniel Eales

  • John Pilger

    Obituary: John Pilger, 1939-2023

    Taking an unashamedly left-wing perspective, Pilger’s emphasis was always on using painstaking research and analysis to tell the stories we need to hear, writes Dee Searle

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