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Rhian E Jones

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Red bluestocking. Writer, journalist and broadcaster on history, politics and culture. Co-editor @RedPeppermag.bsky.social Welsh. 🥃⚒️ Contact via DM or [email protected]. Dispatches: https://substack.com/@rhianejones

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Rhian E Jones @rhianejones.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hiya to all new followers! I'll pipe down about my new book soon and then you can expect grumpy analysis of politics and pop culture old and new, plus the odd drunken indiscretion.

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 9d

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 6d

"In an enthusiastically curated showcase of soft left thinking, more than a dozen opinions are offered on ways forward for Labour"

A new collection from Mark Perryman asks some bold and urgent questions about dialogue on the left, writes Kevin Davey

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The Starmer Symptom - review - Red Pepper

As anger with Labour grows, a new collection from Mark Perryman asks bold and urgent questions about dialogue on the left, writes Kevin Davey

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 4d

Jerry Iles speaks to Geoff Kirkwood about how a Tyneside Social Club became a cultural beacon – driven by cutting edge DJs, bingo nights, experimental orchestras and ‘open-minded collectivism’. Now, it’s reclaiming culture for everyone

www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

High art, low ceilings: remaking Social Club culture - Red Pepper

Geoff Kirkwood (aka Man Power) explains how a Tyneside Social Club became a cultural beacon driven by ‘open-minded collectivism’

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 11d

A real treat to write about Jurassic Park as anticapitalist inspiration for the new @leftcultures.bsky.social (with brilliant illustration as ever)

A great project celebrating radical politics in unexpected places

Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 16d

Issue 4 of Left Cultures out now featuring a piece by Red Pepper co-editor @siobhan.bsky.social

In Issue there's over 50 stories discussing a dazzling array of past and present cultural moments to create a Lexicon of the Left, fully illustrated throughout.

leftcultures.com/collections/...

In Left Cultures 4 there's over 50 stories discussing a dazzling array of past and present cultural moments to create a Lexicon of the Left, fully illustrated throughout.B5 in size128 pagesConcession…

leftcultures.com

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 4d

TWT is back, with a new approach to galvanise the British left. Join us to shake off nostalgia, get organised and rise to meet growing threats, write Andrea Gilbert, Lydia Phillips and Isaac Rose

The World Transformed starts tomorrow in Manchester

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The World Transformed: giving history a push - Red Pepper

TWT is back, with a new approach to galvanise the British left. Join us to shake off nostalgia, get organised and rise to meet growing threats

www.redpepper.org.uk

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 3d

Following an extensive community consultation, the new look Red Pepper Media has been guided by our readers – and is set to reshape the left media landscape

Read about how RPM is forging ahead into the future here:

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Red Pepper Media: a community-led redesign - Red Pepper

Following an extensive community consultation, the new-look RPM has been guided by our readers and is set to reshape the left media landscape

www.redpepper.org.uk

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 2d

"Football, basketball, and Olympic representation are not just games; they are pillars of national identity and instruments to project the nation and its legitimacy abroad"

Nicola De Martini Ugolotti and Max Mauro on efforts to ban Israel from sports

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No neutral ground: sport is political in Israel’s war on Gaza - Red Pepper

Nicola De Martini Ugolotti and Max Mauro report on the movement to ban Israel from international sports as genocide unfolds in Gaza

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, South East and Wessex Water are all being allowed to put their bills up ANOTHER £28.

Why are we not Nationalising Water?

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 21d

"One-third of votes cast might be enough to enable Reform to win an absolute majority of seats and be able to pass any laws it likes"

A campaign for constitutional reform is an urgent priority for the UK, argues Mark Corner.

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We need a new electoral system to defeat the far right - Red Pepper

With the far right ready to exploit the UK's undemocratic politics, constitutional reform is an urgent priority, argues Mark Corner

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 17d

Phil Wigglesworth reflects on the launch of Left Cultures in 2023 – and why the international left must embrace non-hierarchical approaches to publishing

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Ripping yarns: Left Cultures and non-hierarchical publishing - Red Pepper

Phil Wigglesworth reflects on the launch of Left Cultures in 2023 – and why the left must embrace non-hierarchical approaches to publishing

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 16d

Issue 4 of Left Cultures out now featuring a piece by Red Pepper co-editor @siobhan.bsky.social

In Issue there's over 50 stories discussing a dazzling array of past and present cultural moments to create a Lexicon of the Left, fully illustrated throughout.

leftcultures.com/collections/...

In Left Cultures 4 there's over 50 stories discussing a dazzling array of past and present cultural moments to create a Lexicon of the Left, fully illustrated throughout.B5 in size128 pagesConcession…

leftcultures.com

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 11d

From the archive:

Selina Nwulu looks back at revolutionary Black Panther Assata Shakur’s autobiography and the ways in which it remains relevant following her passing in September 2025

(1 October 2014)

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Assata, An Autobiography - review - Red Pepper

Selina Nwulu looks back at revolutionary Black Panther Assata Shakur's autobiography and the ways in which it remains relevant

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 10d

From the archive:

Ewa Jasiewicz considers the impact of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and its violent raid by Israel, in Palestine, Israel and internationally

(27 September 2010)

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After the Gaza Freedom Flotilla - Red Pepper

Ewa Jasiewicz considers the impact of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and its violent raid by Israel, in Palestine, Israel and internationally

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 9d

Infighting over centralised power, corruption and economic crisis has led to defeat for a once-inspiring Indigenous leader and social movement party. Linda Farthing and Benjamin Swift report.

The full article found in @NACLA

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No MAS: the Bolivian left faces up to defeat - Red Pepper

Infighting, overcentralisation, corruption and economic crisis has brought the Bolivian left down, write Linda Farthing and Benjamin Swift

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Netpol @netpol.org · 7d

If the state wants to avoid cumulative protests, maybe the answer is to stop its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative inaction on the climate crisis and its cumulative complicity in genocide.

It won't: and so, no matter how many new laws ministers create, protests are inevitable

Netpol @netpol.org · 7d

The Home Office sham "consultation" on cumulative protests closed on 29 September, so this immediate announcement shows Labour had already decided – yet again – to expand public order powers, well before the Manchester attack that is now used to justify it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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inblacknwhite @imagetree.bsky.social · 12d

People come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. The wealthy are no longer respectable; they are nothing more than jackals and vultures that wallow in the people's blood. -Frantz Fanon / The Wretched of the Earth

We know who they are.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 16d

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At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18d

Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades.

New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period

Farage’s Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK’s Mass Deportation Plan

Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis of official statistics a...

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 18d

They will just... break things. Things we treasure. Things we depend on. Things our lives will be much more difficult without. They will just break them, and laugh, and blame foreigners and wokists.

Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 18d

Someone said to me the other day "Well, even if they get in, Farage won't be able to enact his plans..." and I really think this line of response is not up to the current reality. We're so desperate for the trouble to be indefinitely delayed, but it's here and has been.

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 24d

From the archive:

Tom Palmer, aka Agent Kingfisher, was the ‘messiah’ of London’s squatting scene until his death last year. But who was responsible for his fate? MI5, late capitalism or simply a drug overdose? Matt Broomfield investigates.

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Who killed Agent Kingfisher? - Red Pepper

Who was responsible for the death of Tom Palmer, aka Agent Kingfisher? MI5, late capitalism or a drug overdose? Matt Broomfield investigates.

www.redpepper.org.uk

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 24d

"We have always believed in the importance of grassroots, community politics. Now, however, it is urgent."

Economic power in the community – cymunedoli – is the antidote to the far right’s growing appeal in Cymru, write BethWinter and Leanne Wood

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Cymunedoli: The glue that binds - Red Pepper

Economic power in the community – cymunedoli – is the antidote to the far right’s growing appeal in Cymru, write Beth Winter and Leanne Wood

www.redpepper.org.uk

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 23d

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Fed up with the mainstream media? Support radical, challenging, independent media instead! Subscribe to Red Pepper magazine today.

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 22d

Jerry Iles speaks to Geoff Kirkwood about how a Tyneside Social Club became a cultural beacon – driven by cutting edge DJs, bingo nights, experimental orchestras and ‘open-minded collectivism’. Now, it’s reclaiming culture for everyone

www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

High art, low ceilings: remaking Social Club culture - Red Pepper

Geoff Kirkwood (aka Man Power) explains how a Tyneside Social Club became a cultural beacon driven by ‘open-minded collectivism’

www.redpepper.org.uk

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 22d

From the archive:

The ties which bind the ‘special relationship’ between the UK and the US are a toxic mix of militarism and free trade. By Andrew Smith

(from 12 July 2018)

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The deadly dangers of the 'special relationship’ - Red Pepper

The ties which bind the 'special relationship' between the UK and the US are a toxic mix of militarism and free trade, writes Andrew Smith

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 19d

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies

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Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

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