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  • A large rally of marchers holding Russian and Ukrainian flags and messages of peace

    We must unite for peace and human rights across the old divides

    Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dmitri Makarov and Mary Kaldor call for solidarity and dialogue between anti-war movements and across Cold War divides

  • A map on which the countries marked in red have enforced compulsory voting. By SPQRobin (licensed under Creative Commons)

    Compulsory voting: the debate

    Judith Brett outlines Australia’s experience with – and makes the case for – compulsory voting, whilst Daniel Chavez shows how, for the left in Uruguay, compulsory voting is an essential foundation on which more direct forms of democracy have been built

  • The Angel of the North photographed from below against a blue sky

    The Dilemmas of Northern Independence

    Building a new country is not a straightforward task, argues Gerry Hart

  • Labour leader Kier Starmer stands clapping at Party Conference against a red background

    Simon Hedges’ credibility question

    As Labour doesn’t scare the establishment, they’ll probably get in by default at some point. That’s the beauty of Britain’s advanced democracy, writes Simon Hedges

  • A photo of the Houses of Parliament taken from across the River Thames

    Clive Lewis on the UK’s crumbling democracy

    After two years of Boris Johnson’s government, Clive Lewis and Marzena Zukowska discuss growing authoritarianism and sources of hope for the future

  • This essay was first published in the Autumn 2021 issue of Red Pepper

    England after the break-up of Britain

    Ex-Labour MP Thelma Walker explains why she’s thrown in her lot with the Northern Independence Party

  • Singapore

    One-party rule in Singapore?

    The People’s Action Party has won every election since 1959 – but it hasn’t always been a fair fight, writes Kirsten Han