Global politics
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.
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The battle of Hambacher Forest
Activists have occupied Hambacher Forest for six years to prevent environmental destruction through coal mining. Now, state, police and corporate forces are combining to oust them for good, writes Andrea Brock
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Dare to dream of a world without borders
If politics is the art of the possible, then radicalism must be the capacity to imagine new possibilities, says Gary Younge
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Three years into the war in Yemen, the UK has blood on its hands
The government continues to provide Saudi Arabia with the weapons it uses to kill thousands of Yemeni people, writes Andrew Smith
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The UK has been supporting Israeli war crimes for years
Priti Patel’s shady deals are business as usual. Enough is enough, writes Eleanor Penny
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One-state in Palestine: equality, democracy and justice
Omar Barghouti asks: has Donald Trump’s break with the two-state solution unwittingly revived the possibility of a single, democratic state in historic Palestine?
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Why did Americans vote for Trump?
The question commentators won’t ask is simple: what kind of society votes Donald Trump President? Siobhán McGuirk surveys the fragmented USA
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The complicity of the white liberal left in the rise of Donald Trump
There are deep reasons for racism in American politics, but the white liberal left has done little to prevent it, writes Mariama Eversley