Political parties and ideologies
A founding aim of Red Pepper was to offer a platform for inter-left discussion, focusing on inclusive and accessible debate, not dogma, and covering a range of political parties and ideologies.
Today, we’re continuing this tradition, providing primers on political history and contemporary ‘keywords’, analysing the left’s relationship with the Labour Party, and keeping an eye on the evolving far-right.
A founding aim of Red Pepper was to offer a platform for inter-left discussion, focusing on inclusive and accessible debate, not dogma, and covering a range of political parties and ideologies.
Today, we’re continuing this tradition, providing primers on political history and contemporary ‘keywords’, analysing the left’s relationship with the Labour Party, and keeping an eye on the evolving far-right.
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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
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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
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Learning from the Sphinx
Terry Eagleton draws a modern lesson from ancient monsters
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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
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Morality tales
From cowardly men to wayward wives, pre-modern superstitions transmitted social norms as well as scares, writes Eleanor Janega
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Playing on the dark side: An interview with Dawn Ray’d
Gerry Hart speaks to Simon Barr of Dawn Ray’d about black metal, its relationship with the far right and its radical potential
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The driver of dispossession
Tina Ngata explains the social and legal legacies of a 15th-century Christian principle that paved the way for imperial violence in, and far beyond, New Zealand
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