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Political parties and ideologies

Red Pepper promotes inclusive and accessible debate, not dogma, covering a range of political parties and ideologies – from political history primers to analysing left parties and keeping tabs on the evolving far-right.

Red Pepper promotes inclusive and accessible debate, not dogma, covering a range of political parties and ideologies – from political history primers to analysing left parties and keeping tabs on the evolving far-right.

  • A crowd in George Square, Glasgow, waving Scottish flags

    Elections 2026: Soul searching for Scottish political identity

    The convenient myth of civic nationalism has allowed Holyrood to ignore the rising threat of Reform for too long, argues Coll McCail

  • A black and white photograph of cultural theorist Stuart Hall

    Key words: Conjuncture

    Chris Goldie unpacks the concept of conjuncture, and how theorists from Louis Althusser to Stuart Hall use it to analyse social formations

  • Illustration of a ballot box with votes turning into butterflies

    Elections 2026: The left’s future is local

    Candidates and campaigners debate alternative local offers to Labour and Reform, through future alliances and those already underway

  • People casting their votes at a polling station in Hackney, London

    Elections 2026: Think global, vote local

    Ahead of 7 May polling day, candidates and canvassers tell RPM what the left can achieve in local and devolved government

  • A painting of a desolate landscape

    Elections 2026: The return of the rotten borough?

    Andy Brain reports on English councils’ accountability problem: candidates in ‘uncontested seats’ being elected into power – without a vote being cast

  • A black and white photograph of Groote Schuur, the country estate of Cecil Rhodes in South Africa

    Cape Fever – review

    Nadia Davids’ gothic tale evokes the suffocation of domestic service as a psychological duel unfolds between madam and maid, writes Fifi Bat-hef

  • A stock photograph of a baby being held by their parents

    We Grow the World Together – review

    We Grow the World Together’s collected essays are a vital resource on caregiving and abolition for those hoping to build a better world for future generations, writes Gracie Mae Bradley

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