From new wave to gospel to thrash metal, Red Pepper editors pick out the songs and albums that shaped their political ...

Forgiveness is a tactic that can turn a temporary victory into a lasting one ...

For decades, Israel’s settler colonial and apartheid state has denied Palestinians the basic right to water. Water apartheid is a deliberate system of state-led policies that restrict a racialised ...

Often culturally stereotyped for their success in reggae, rap and hip hop, Black musicians have also built a strong and influential tradition within alternative music. In We Were Here, Stephanie ...

Of all the cultural artefacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, few struck a cord with quite so many people as Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Well timed as it launched in March 2020, its low-stakes ...

As someone who has never visited their motherland and can only visualise it through photographs or imaginings, I am always drawn to second and third-generation immigrants’ experiences of travelling ...

‘Without any reason, they shoot our fire truck. Three or four bullets. One of them was in my shoulder.’ Palestinian firefighter, Rabe’e Antar, pulls up the sleeve of his navy shirt to reveal a deep ...

The past few years have seen increasing discussion of the ‘manosphere’ in the media, in government circles, and among the general public. Conceived by the men’s rights movement of the 1970s, nurtured ...

May 2026’s Senedd election confirmed a major shift in Welsh politics. Reform UK, which secured just 1–2 per cent of the vote at the previous election, emerged as a significant electoral force in Wales ...

In April 2025, in the aftermath of the UK Supreme Court’s devastating trans-exclusionary ruling on the protected characteristic of sex in the Equality Act 2010, I met with a group of friends and ...

As shown in histories of the British labour movement, trades councils played a prominent role in the early foundation of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1868, which owed much to the efforts of the ...