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

Amidst the protean revolutionary tumult of 19th century Europe, left-wing political thinkers set their minds to a form of political action that would better achieve a unity between words and action.

First published during the Covid-19 pandemic, Dean Spade’s pocket-sized book on mutual aid, detailing its opportunities and pitfalls, is only likely to become more necessary. Indeed, a revised and ...

During a psychotic episode, Arundhati Roy’s mother, Mary Roy, or Mrs Roy, developed a fixation on knowing the caste and religion of every doctor, nurse and cleaner who attended to her. Fed up with ...

Sipping my first post-lockdown pint with comrade Colum Leith in a sunny Bristol beer garden, we discussed what we had read, watched and listened to over previous months. Most of it spoke to our ...

Magazine publishers have long been contending with the slow decline of print media. Digital technology has made content freely available online and on social media platforms, while newsstand sales ...

The Soviet Union, in the 74 years of its existence in one form or another, was a society that was all about building. The Soviets claimed in the 1970s to have ‘built’ socialism, and while they never ...

The first volume of Tariq Ali’s autobiography, Street Fighting Years (1987), focused on his youth. This latest volume follows on from 1979, taking the reader into his eighties, and includes a ...

Journalism has a diversity problem. That’s not a new revelation. According to a 2023 survey by the Canadian Association of Journalists, 76 per cent of the country’s newsrooms have no visible minority ...

In 2025 I have resolved to escape the clutches of my smartphone, which has turned out to be no small task – it encroaches on every aspect of my day-to-day life, from communication and banking to two ...

There have been a number of works examining the rise, decline and fall of the Soviet system but few from the angle of serious post-Soviet Marxism, at least when it comes to works translated into ...

In Carmen Maria Machado’s 2021 prize-winning memoir In The Dream House, the author writes that, ‘What is placed in or left out of the archive is a political act, dictated by the archivist and the ...