Thirty years after its heyday, Esther Freeman traces the history of Reclaim the Streets, the movement’s energy – and its ...

The people in Gaza have come to understand political language – not out of education, but because of the immense pain. Each ...

It’s high time for the UK left to support comprehensive drug policy reform, driven by anti-racism and class consciousness, argues Carrie Lou Hamilton ...

Criminalisation, poverty and the hostile environment are roots of violence against sex workers. It’s time to end them all.

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 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 ...

It is said that history is written by the winners, but increasingly it is being interpreted by those who see themselves as modernity’s cultural losers. Collectively, these individuals are referred to ...

Argentina’s groundbreaking gender identity laws were won through longstanding activist traditions, diverse tactics and solidarity. The experience has lessons for us all, write Alessandra Viggiano and ...

Comedians never worked out how to deal with Jeremy Corbyn or the type of politics it represented. So, what was Corbyn's impact on comedy?

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 ...

Red Pepper republishes an open letter signed by artists, academics, writers and activists demanding justice for the teenager killed by French police ...

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 ...