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"For solidarity movements in the global north resisting militarisation, racist policing and imperialism, the struggle against the ‘critical mineral’ boom is inseparable" @londonmining and @WeSmellGas identify a critical target for anti-imperialism redpepper.org.uk/environment-cl…

Richard Kuper examines what zionism is (and isn’t) and how it works as an explicitly settler colonial project redpepper.org.uk/key-words/key-…

"The disability community is the largest and most diverse of all marginalised communities, yet there’s rarely any media by us" Empowerment comes from fighting marginalisation and discrimination on multiple fronts, says @JenDeerinwater of @CRSHColonialism redpepper.org.uk/the-spark/tell…

Max Farrar and Kevin McDonnell’s book demonstrates how much Big Flame has to teach the modern left, writes Kevin Davey redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/…

"Western gender frameworks remain deeply embedded in a simplistic, dualistic logic" Pride is exported globally and trapped in limited Western ideals. For liberation, we must look to Indigenous and Asian cultures, argues Sunil Pant redpepper.org.uk/society/lgbtqp…

"The long-running support from the UK and other countries for the settlements has no doubt contributed to the calculated impunity with which Israel now feels able to act in Gaza" The UK remains an active partner in Israel’s genocide, writes @TimBierley redpepper.org.uk/global-politic…

Sanctions on Israel would be effective. They would have the support of a large majority in the UK. And the government is legally obliged to use all measures at its disposal to end Israel’s heinous crimes. My colleague @TimBierley in @RedPeppermag redpepper.org.uk/global-politic…

From the archive: Sabre rattling against Iran is nothing new, but that doesn’t mean the threat of war isn’t real. @PhyllisBennis analyses the situation in the wider Middle East redpepper.org.uk/global-politic…

Richard Kuper describes how @972mag provides a journalistically brilliant lone Palestinian-Israeli voice in a sea of hostile media redpepper.org.uk/global-politic…

"The implementation of state reforms at the turn of the twentieth century was an acknowledgement of the need to cushion the effects of exploitation" David Matthews examines how the welfare state is used against the working class redpepper.org.uk/society/disabi…

From the archive: "The oil worker as a solitary man standing up to power has been replaced by figures aligned with the resisting women now symbols of revolution" The latest spate of industrial action is rallying support for Iranian women, writes A.N. redpepper.org.uk/global-politic…

Jake Thompson (@exacteditions) details how physical media is once again integral to modern media operations – with a new purpose in the digital age redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/…

"In Defence of Barbarism is not an academic text; its shortcomings do not take away from the striking appeal of its argument" Long used as a pejorative, Louisa Yousfi transforms the term ‘barbarian’ against colonialism, @sophiemarie_ng writes redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/…

"The region’s resource wealth has been harnessed for the benefit of a distant or external elite" @RoshaanKhattak and Thomas Jeffrey Milley examine the causes of the violence between Baloch insurgents and the Pakistani government redpepper.org.uk/global-politic…

Writers, editors and artists from the global south must be part of left media futures, writes @SanaaAlimia redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/…

"Moscow’s grand projects under Putin’s increasingly nationalist and violent regime were based on a reimagining of the architecture of the early communist vanguard" Owen Hatherley charts the architecture that followed the fall of the Soviet Union redpepper.org.uk/society/housin…

"[Nakba] is now frequently used to describe the continuing denial of the rights of the Palestinian people" @bernardregan documents the brutal history of Britain’s role in driving the Palestinians from their land redpepper.org.uk/global-politic…

"Public ownership is the only way we can save our crumbling utilities" Thames Water, more than any other privatised company, has provoked a very high level of public anger. Eleanor Godwin and David Whyte discuss why and explore what we can do about it redpepper.org.uk/economics-unio…

"Any realistic discussion about forming a new political party in the UK today must start from an acknowledgment of the graveyard of dead parties." We need to build an independent politics from below, argues @hilarypepper redpepper.org.uk/political-part…