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Red Pepper’s coverage of global politics provides in-depth analysis of worldwide events, campaigns and movements.

We prioritise writers on the ground, exploring political developments from Latin America to Palestine, from the US alt-right to radical voices rising in Asia, and investigating the critical trends shaping left-wing politics and the world.

Red Pepper’s coverage of global politics provides in-depth analysis of worldwide events, campaigns and movements.

We prioritise writers on the ground, exploring political developments from Latin America to Palestine, from the US alt-right to radical voices rising in Asia, and investigating the critical trends shaping left-wing politics and the world.

  • Photo of a long train covered and surrounded by hundreds of people wearing bring colours and waving Sudan flags

    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

  • Three photos: A bald masculine person wearing court robes stands behind a bank of computers; a scene of levelled buildings and debris after a bombing; a crowd of smiling people wearing keffiyehs and Palestine flags holds a large pink heart sign reading Thank you, South Africa

    Palestine must be free, with the law on it side

    An interview with Ahmed Abofoul of human rights organisation Al- Haq on the need for international rights and legal mechanisms to stop the genocide in Gaza

  • Two white feminine people in masks, their shoulders draped in Ukraine flags, hold cardboard signs. One reads: Stop Russian aggression, the other shows a drawing of bombs falling on a mother and child

    Ukraine must win

    Assessing the Russo-Ukraine war from a progressive perspective means recognising the fascist, imperialist nature of the Russian invader, writes Yuliya Yurchenko

  • A photo of two men in suit and tie – Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad – together lighting white candles from a red candle that sits in the middle of a round platform

    Left analyses of imperialism must stand against ‘campism’

    Syria and Israel may be in different geopolitical camps but their practices of population extermination are the same. The international left must recognise the commonalities, argues Elia J Ayoub

  • A montage image features an illustration of a ballot box with ballots coming out the side, with butterflies in the colours of the Indian flag. These are flnaked by images of protest, including seated men with turbans and raised fists and many women holding placards in yellow saris.

    Grassroots India rising

    Zoya Hasan explains how civil and political society collaboration shaped India’s 2024 election – and the hope it provides for democracy

  • A montage image features an illustration of a ballot box with ballots coming out the side, with butterflies around. In the centre is a photo of Nayib Bukele at a table with with military leaders

    The tech bro president ruling by force

    Hilary Goodfriend explains how El Salvador’s populist leader has retained power – and the implications of Nayib Bukele’s rise for neighbouring countries

  • Camping for Palestine: An interview with Sahar Awadallah

    Sahar Awadallah describes her experiences of activism in Palestine and the UK – and what led her to set up a women’s protest camp in Sheffield in January 2024

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