As we wrap up for the winter break, Cameron Baillie and Red Pepper editors pick out the best films for readers to enjoy over ...

Amazon is the world’s biggest advertiser, spending $21 billion globally in 2024. In Britain, this amounts to £30 million on Out of Home marketing and £68 million in TV advertising, flooding our ...

In December 1948, a group of prominent US Jews, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, wrote a letter to the New York Times expressing concern over the emergence of ‘The Freedom Party’ (Tnuat ...

I was 15 when I attended my first Radiohead concert in Dublin and was thrilled to see a Free Tibet banner hanging on the stage. In 2000, this was a cause celebre and my little activist heart – usually ...

In the wake of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 116 children and 28 adults when a colliery spoil tip collapsed onto the Welsh village in 1966, a group of men got together to sing as a way of ...

In Singapore, elections are a curious beast to describe to outsiders. On the surface, everything looks above board. There aren’t any accusations of cheating or corruption, and politicians (especially ...

Twenty years ago, when Tony Blair tried to restore something of the old militarism of empire, invading Afghanistan and Iraq with little understanding of what had once happened there, he did so with ...

Firstly, the films have been made through a strong partnership between Paul Laverty [screenwriter], Rebecca O’Brien [producer] and myself. It’s very important to say that it’s really not about me as ...

This letter to Extinction Rebellion was collaboratively written with dozens of aligned groups. As the weeks of action called by Extinction Rebellion were coming to an end, our groups came together to ...

The past decade has seen a surge in the global far right, with increased blurriness between the extreme right and the mainstream. At the same time, there has been renewed discussion about ‘no ...

The epithet ‘tankie’ began as an insult from one group of communists to another. It was coined by those in the Communist Party of Great Britain who opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw ...

The police exist to keep us safe – or so we are told by mainstream media and popular culture. TV shows exaggerate the amount of serious crime and the nature of what most police officers do all day.