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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 14h
2 DAYS TO GO! ‘Green Pepper’ is a one-off special edition produced in collaboration between RPM and Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social - examining our shared interest in ecosocialism today. Here's what's inside ⬇️🫑
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🫑🌶️ LAUNCHING 2ND OCTOBER…🫑🌶️ Red Pepper Media x Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social present 'Green Pepper: Building Popular Power' - a special one-off collaborative edition magazine examining ecosocialism today - now available for pre-sale.
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James O’Nions @jamesonions.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Over the summer I've been working on a special magazine which is dropping at Green Party conference next week. Green Pepper is a collaboration between @greensorganise.bsky.social and @redpeppermag.bsky.social - more at greensorganise.uk/green-pepper/, including how to get hold of it.
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Operation Ajax was the first successful CIA covert operation to topple a legitimate government, setting a template for brutal operations expanding US influence across the globe. Writer Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi traces how covert intervention has shaped #Iran ⬇️ 🇮🇷 www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
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Iran '53: The coup that changed the Middle East - Red Pepper
In 1953, Britain and the US helped overthrow Iran’s elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossaddegh, after he moved to nationalise oil
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Ajax did not simply remove Mosaddegh. It helped normalise the idea that regime change could be engineered quietly, then presented as order restored. We are still living with its consequences." Writer Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi narrates the story of Iran'53: The coup that changed the Middle East ⬇️ 🇮🇷
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Complaints are often dismissed as neoliberal, or more reactionary invocations of the 'woke mob' 😡😤 Paula Lacey interviews Sara Ahmed on institutional violence, how she navigates these framings, and the power of complaint collectives ⬇️ www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Can’t complain? An interview with Sara Ahmed - Red Pepper
Paula Lacey talks to feminist scholar Sara Ahmed about institutional violence, complaint activism and the power of saying ‘no’
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“When you make a complaint that threatens an institution’s self identity as progressive, or threatens key valuable individuals, the institution will come down on you. You need more people to withstand that force.” Paula Lacey interviews Sara Ahmed on complaint activism & the power of saying ‘no’ ⬇️
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Red Pepper Media’s Summer Reads ☀️🥵♨️🌴 Our co-editor David Matthews shares his pick of the best #books upcoming and hot off the press - perfect for sunny day reads and even sunday scaries. 🌶️ Read his selects on the Red Pepper website now, and subscribe today to support independent #socialist media!
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
📚BOOK #GIVEAWAY - ENTER BY FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 📚 'The Vanishing Girl of Kabul' is #journalist Zahra Joya's powerful story of betrayal, survival and resistance. Co-written by Amie Ferris-Rotman, it blends the intimacy of memoir with urgency of investigative reporting. HOW TO GET YOUR SIGNED COPY ⬇️ 🧵
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In 2024, more than 10,000 people died as they migrated towards #Europe, while the #EnglishChannel saw its deadliest year on record. In his March 2026 article, Suárez reminds readers why this is a key moment of class struggle 🌶️ ⬇️ www.redpepper.org.uk/society/migr...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A potential rival for #Farage 's nascent party has emerged - Rupert Lowe's alternative party for the rightwing voting bloc: #RestoreBritain. Rhys Clarke warns readers of the real dangers of dragging British politics ever rightwards. Read his full analysis now 🌶️ www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...
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Reform, Restore and the fragmenting right
There are farcical elements to the Farage/Lowe schism but also a real danger of dragging British politics ever rightwards
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Restore Britain's ability to outflank #Farage from the right could have long-term consequences for the future of British politics. Rhys Clarke writes today on #Clacton byelections, #Restore Britain and the fragmentation of the British right 🌶️ ⬇️ www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Matthew Wolfe's newly released book ‘Fires in the Night’ takes us graphically into a realm of eclectic #vegan #countercultures - including the trajectory of the subversive Earth Liberation Front and a history of eco-sabotage. Read Gareth Thompson's review now 🌶️ www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Fires in the Night - review - Red Pepper
In his review of Fires in the Night by Matthew Wolfe, Gareth Thompson reviews a nail-biting history of environmentalist direct action
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In October 1996, eco-activists attacked forestry service ranger stations in Oregon. They left a spray-painted slogan - 'Earth Liberation Front.' For Red Pepper, Gareth Thompson reviews this nail-biting history of environmentalist direct action. Read now 🌶️ www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Fires in the Night - review - Red Pepper
In his review of Fires in the Night by Matthew Wolfe, Gareth Thompson reviews a nail-biting history of environmentalist direct action
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 10/08/2026
With Pokopia, the shadows of deforestation, climate change, pollution and the devastating impact of extractive capitalism, are made visible in our virtual refuges. Perhaps a cosy game needs to be confrontational to begin to truly represent socialist politics. We cannot truly escape, so we must work to save the world before us.
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Cosy games continue to rise in popularity, growing by 27% in Western markets since 2022 and accounting for 18% of mobile gaming revenues in Japan. But can they be more than mere escapism? Dr Stephanie Farnsworth investigates. Read the full story now 🌶️ www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
'Cosy games' like #AnimalCrossing's New Horizons & Pokemon's #Pokopia have grown in popularity in recent years - but can they be more than mere escapism? Lecturer in #Media, Dr Stephanie Farnsworth, investigates. Read the full story now via l!nK B3LoW! 🌶️ www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Pokopia, cosy games and the problem of escapism - Red Pepper
'Cosy games' have grown in popularity in recent years but can they be more than mere escapism? Dr Stephanie Farnsworth investigates
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Iranian Tanide Collective is a platform for disseminating and reflecting on the voices of independent feminists living in #Iran and around the world. In this interview with Red Pepper #Media, the collective share thoughts on a third path for true liberation and democracy.
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Can Iranians really only choose between repressive state or colonialist invasion? Alain Alameddine, coordinator at the Palestinian One Democratic State Initiative, speaks to Iranian independent #feminist collective Tanide to find out. Read the full story now 🌶️ www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
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Iran: a third way between oppression and aggression - Red Pepper
Is Iranian society limited to a choice between a repressive state or colonialist invasion? Interview with Iranian feminist collective Tanide
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Reflecting on #GenZ 's return to scrapbooking, Grace Blenkinsop shares: "it is this type of return to tactile engagement that leads me to believe that grassroots #archiving will persevere." Read her full review of Stella Dadzie's new book on our website now 🌶️ www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Often described as one of the 'grandmothers' of UK #BlackFeminism , Stella Dadzie's newest collection of essays, poems, diary entries & speeches highlights the importance of Black feminist #archival practices, writes Grace Blenkinsop. Read the full story now 🌶️ www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Stella Dadzie: A Whole Heap of Mix Up - review - Red Pepper
Stella Dadzie's collected writings the importance of black feminist archival practices, writes Grace Blenkinsop
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Illegal abductions in #Venezuela signal a revival of old style US intervention. But juntas won't always be needed, or even obvious. Now live on our website, read Cameron Baillie's profile of the 'new right' leaders threatening to deluge the 2020s 'pink wave' for our latest print issue.
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
For our latest print issue 'Striking Back', activist researcher Cameron Baillie profiled Latin America's 'new right' leaders. He introduces us to #Ecuador 's Daniel Noboa, #Bolivia 's Rodrigo Paz and #Chile 's Jose Antonio Kast - as well as the communities resisting them.
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Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Interesting to discover that my short @redpeppermag.bsky.social "Keywords" piece on Rudi Dutschke and Raymond Williams has been cited in an academic paper on R.W. Fassbinder..! www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/15...
The citation and abstract of the paper."This same logic pervades the more hopeful Eight Hours, which depicts the steady radicalization of workers through their confrontation with day-to-day problems—rent prices, impossible quotas, domestic violence, etc. The approach is inspired by Dutschke’s conception of revolution as a “long march through the institutions”—a phrase whose radical origins in the sociologist’s engagement with Mao Zedong and Che Guevara have often been obscured (Frost 2022).3 Eight Hours’ radical politics aligns Dutschke’s phrase with Antonio Gramsci’s “war of position”, which, as Daniel Frost points out, is vulnerable to charges of gradualism (Frost 2022). The sunny tone of Eight Hours may lead viewers to suspect the show is striking a similar compromise even as the series highlights the phrase’s militant potential.

As Sabrina Huck argues, Dutschke’s “long march is not a reformist strategy precisely because its end goal is the abolition of the existing structures and the institutions that reproduce them. It is a process of working politically from within, but by pushing boundaries through agitation not negotiation…” (Huck 2020). Eight Hours works through a similar method by bringing radical politics to the institution of television, the citadel of bourgeois values."
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
TWO TICKETS REMAINING for our Glasgow event tomorrow ‼️🚨 Spaces are free but sign up is required to secure your spot ⬇️ www.tickettailor.com/events/redpe...
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Register – GUMG & RPM present: Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis – Reading Room, Glasgow University Union (GUU), University Avenue
GUMG & RPM present: Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis – Reading Room, Glasgow University Union (GUU), University Avenue, Wed 24 Jun 2026 -
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
As the cost of living crisis rages on, so does war on #Iran. Jake Woodier of @taxjusticenet.bsky.social reports on the UK economic policies allowing the super-rich to make record profits from this moment. #ukpolitics #economics Read the full story 🌶️ ⬇️ www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Ahead of tomorrow's expected signing of the US-Iran deal, @taxjusticenet.bsky.social 's Jake Woodier writes on how the super-rich profit from the war. #iran #iranwar Read the full story now 🔗 ⬇️ www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
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Corporate profiteering and the war on Iran - Red Pepper
Amid fallout from the war on Iran, our economic policy allows the super-rich to profit while the public struggle with living costs
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Radical alternatives to capitalism are already being practiced across the world, as we speak. For Red Pepper this week, Grace Wright-Arora scopes out an emerging scholarly area of study: Real existing degrowth. Read the full story 🔗 ⬇️ www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Is it possible to live well with less, within planetary boundaries? Some of the answers may already exist. Researcher Grace Wright-Arora scopes out Real Existing #Degrowth - studying radical alternatives to capitalism unfolding right now. Read now 🌶️ ⬇️ www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...
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Real existing degrowth - Red Pepper
Radical alternatives to capitalism are being practiced now across the world as everyday realities, not future possibilities
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Since 7 October 2023, settler pogroms and Israeli land grabs have increased in frequency and ferocity. International Solidarity Movement volunteers report on settlers' new weapon of choice: 'shepherding outposts.' Read the full dispatch now 🔗 ⬇️ www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit... #palestine
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
In their latest dispatch from the West Bank, International Solidarity Movement volunteers Farah, Calico & Noah report on evolving Israeli tactics for stealing Palestinian land. One of the newest developments? Shepherding outposts. Read the full story now 🌶️ 🔗 www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Are manfluencers like #HSTikkyTokky really the winners of the attention economy? Sociologist Alison Phipps reveals the real grift of the manosphere: mass data extraction at scale on behalf of cloud kings like Zuckerberg & Musk. Read the full story now 🌶️ www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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The political economy of the manosphere - Red Pepper
The online industry feeding off the anger of young men hides a deeper structure of digital capitalism and techno-feudalism
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"Manfluencers might be lords of the cyberculture thief, but a much more powerful class owns the digital land." Alison Phipps writes on the online industry feeding off the anger of young men, and the political economy of the #manosphere. Read the full story now🌶️ www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dissatisfaction with Welsh Labour is not flowing in a single political direction. Instead, its being split between competing populist, nationalist & progressive responses to devolved governance. Read Robin Mann's take on the latest shifts in #WelshPolitics ⬇️ 🌶️ www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Recent #Senedd elections confirmed a major shift in Welsh politics, with both #Reform UK and #PlaidCymru achieving their strongest results in history. @bangoruniversity.bky.social 's Robin Mann writes on the transformation of the Welsh political landscape. ⬇️ 🔗 www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...
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Elections 2026: The political shifts reshaping Wales - Red Pepper
Robin Mann reports on how support for both Plaid Cymru and Reform is transforming the Welsh political landscape
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Trump and Rubio are set on regime change in Cuba by year's end. Today, Helen Yaffe asks: what could the revolutionary people of Cuba achieve if they were left in peace - and finally given the chance to prosper, not just survive? Read the full story 🌶️ 🇨🇺 www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"Cuba's only threat to the United States is as a good example." As US government warmongering reaches a fever pitch unseen since the 1962 Missile Crisis, Helen Yaffe writes on Cuba's response to ongoing psychological warfare. Read in full now 🌶️ 🔗 www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
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Cuba stands firm - Red Pepper
Cuba continues to show the world an alternative mode of development even in the face of US regime change, argues Helen Yaffe
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Kit Heyam (they/he) @krheyam.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I wrote about @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social's essential new book, and the importance of strategic pluralism, dealing with defeat, and talking to our elders, for @redpeppermag.bsky.social: www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Deviants and trailblazers - review - Red Pepper
Rebecca Jane Morgan’s account of trans peoples' fight for recognition is a valuable resource for activists, writes historian Kit Heyam
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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
24th June sees the launch of the latest Glasgow Media Group (@gu-mg.bsky.social) investigation, edited by @catherinehapper.bsky.social, @pauljreilly.bsky.social and Alison Eldridge. Organised with @redpeppermag.bsky.social, and with @lauraewebster.bsky.social as special guest. Sign up now!
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Glasgow University Media Group (GUMG) @gu-mg.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Come and hear about the #GUMG's latest research on media and the cost of living crisis with @redpeppermag.bsky.social and editor of the National @lauraewebster.bsky.social . 24th June at Glasgow University Union (GUU).
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🔊 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🔊 Join us on June 24th for the launch of Glasgow University Media Group's new book: Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis, where we'll be joined by guest Laura Webster, Editor of The National. Tickets are free - reserve your spot now! 🔗🎫: buytickets.at/redpepper/22...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
📓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Glasgow University Media Group & Red Pepper Media present: Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📓 Join us for a special book launch as we discuss media power, resistance and the future of journalism with special guest, Laura Webster (Editor of The National). 24 JUNE, 6-7.30PM TIX LINK IN BIO
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"I'm worried for them. They don't know how to be defeated." Rebecca Jane Morgan's account of the fight for legal recognition for trans people in the UK offers important lessons for today's activists, writes Kit Heyam. Read in full now 🌶️ #transrights #lgbtq www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“It takes a lot of time to understand defeat,” writes historian, heritage facilitator and educator Kit Heyam. He reviews a new @plutopress.bsky.social book on the history of trans activism in Britain, a timely resource for contemporary activists. www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Deviants and trailblazers - review - Red Pepper
Rebecca Jane Morgan’s account of trans peoples' fight for recognition is a valuable resource for activists, writes historian Kit Heyam
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The generational divide in British politics is often explained away as typical: young people lean left and grow conservative with age. Looking at the rise of #indie rock star Chloe Slater, John Newsham dives into the politics of young #Britain. www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Chloe Slater's songs are addictive. But what sets her apart from other young songwriters is hinted, first, in her songs' titles. In our latest issue, John Newsham dives into political messaging, generational tensions & deepening class conflict. 🔗 www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Chloe Slater and the politics of young Britain - Red Pepper
Political messaging, generational tensions and deepening class conflict are fuelling Chloe Slater’s popularity, argues John Newsham
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
What would happen if we moved beyond stigmatising addiction as an individual failure? Suspicion toward sobriety on the left often draws on its association with neo-liberal respectability. But these associations do not exhaust what sobriety can mean. 🔗 www.redpepper.org.uk/society/heal...
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On the radical politics of sobriety - Red Pepper
Recognising addiction's structural underpinnings opens up routes towards a liberatory framing of sobriety, writes William Rayfet Hunter
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"Addiction doesn't sit outside politics," explains British-Jamaican writer William Rayfet Hunter. In our latest online story, Hunter opens up a vital conversation on the radical politics and potential of sobriety. Read in full now 🌶️ #sobriety #addiction #sober www.redpepper.org.uk/society/heal...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
If you're worried about #AI, then subscribe to magazines so that they can pay more human writers. This month, Grace Byron speaks to Red Pepper on cultural criticism, transphobia and Trump. Read the full interview now 🌶️ www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Grace Byron on cultural criticism, transphobia and Trump - Red Pepper
Maria Alyokhina speaks to Red Pepper Media on the power of music and political will at a time of war and rising authoritarianism
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
In a new interview, Red Pepper co-editor Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin speaks to writer Grace Byron about trans representation, artificial intelligence, and the role of criticism in an age of moral panic. Read in full 🌶️ #culture #trump #transphobia 🔗 www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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