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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.

  • Four children are posing and looking at the camera against a backdrop of simple dwellings

    Afghans in Pakistan: Stop the deportations!

    Globally, governments are demonising and deporting Afghans – just two years after the Taliban returned to power. We need action now, say The Afghan Reparations Collective

  • Walter Rodney, aBblack man with Afro hair, glasses, dressed in a 1970s style suit is speaking against a red, black and green background

    Walter Rodney was right

    The Guyanese Marxist and pan-Africanist Walter Rodney is being read with eagerness by young organisers in Africa today, writes Phethani Madzivhandila

  • The outline of Africa, coloured in red, sits amid the pan-africanist colours of red, black and green

    The revolutionary dream of Pan-Africanism

    We must learn the history of Pan-Africanism and re-engage with the revolutionary anti-colonial activists who first pursued its dream, argues Kevin Ochieng Okoth

  • Against a red, black and green background, there are portraits of two military men

    Sudan: from revolution to war

    Red Pepper speaks to Muzan Alneel about the current war in Sudan, how it links to the revolutionary uprisings of 2018-19 and what the future holds

  • Illustrations of revolutionary moments in Pan-African history

    Freedom songs for total liberation 

    Ubax Abdi and Chief Nyamweya reflect on pan-Africanism past and future while Lena Grace Anyuolo poems express a pan-African socialist woman’s perspective

  • A group of young Somali students wearing white shirts hold Palestinian flags and stand with freedom fists raised

    Africa’s strong bonds to Palestine

    Remembering Africa’s historic ties with and support for Palestine is vital as relations with Israel are normalised across the continent, write Salim Vally and Roshan Dadoo

  • Head and shoulder photographs of the two authors

    Definitely maybe? The rise of the ‘definite’ left

    In an essay in Byline Times, openDemocracy co-founder Anthony Barnett celebrated the emergence of what he calls the ‘definite left’. It triggered a range of responses, including this exchange with the writer, historian and Kremlin critic Kirill Kobrin