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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 18d

"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 · 13d

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 · 13d

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.

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Issue 04

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…

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 6d

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 · 5d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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
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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

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inblacknwhite @imagetree.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 13d

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 14d

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 · 15d

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 · 21d

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.

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 20d

"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

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 19d

Fed up with the mainstream media? Support radical, challenging, independent media instead!

After 31 years, Red Pepper has evolved into a new form. Read all about RPM here.

Until stocks run out, all new subscribers will still receive our most recent print issue!

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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 · 19d

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

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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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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 18d

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 · 15d

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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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 15d

The BoE has somewhat accepted that profiteering played a role on persistent inflation. Sarah Breeden, a BoE Deputy Governor, recently said that to get inflation down, workers must accept lower pay deals and firms must reduce profit margins.
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UK workers must accept lower pay deals to help beat inflation, says Bank ratesetter

Deputy governor also says company must rein in profits as there is ‘some way to go’ to meet 2% inflation target

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 18d

To truly understand what's going on with the young and often not-so-young men that are drawn to Charlie Kirk and similar "manosphere" influencers, it's important to know that they are absolutely obsessed with OnlyFans.

You'd think, to hear them talk, OnlyFans is the center of the universe.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 19d

#OtD 20 Sep 1961 22 unions at Ford in the UK initiated strike action against attacks on workers' tea breaks. Management had offered a pay increase and 40-hour week if workers gave it up stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9332...

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 19d

The hollowness of contemporary appeals to British sovereignty, and the therefore shallow nature of right-wing incarnations of nationalism, is a dominant and consequential political trend.

Won’t the British right stand up for sovereignty?

A hatred of interference in national affairs disappears when American conservatives are doing it

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 20d

750,000 people signed up for Your Party and honestly, you could pick a dozen of them at random to form an organising committee and they'd do a better job than 90% of the people currently running the show.

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 19d

what kind of structure is needed to make a new left party work. The Independent Labour Party debated this issue at its founding conference in Bradford in January 1893👇 wp.me/p15p2Q-f4C

Never easy: launching a new left party. The Independent Labour Party 1893

Launching a new left party: The Independent Labour Party 1893 Top of Form Bottom of Form Questions for parties of the left: federation or national centre. The Independent Labour Party 14th Jan…

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 20d

Tag yourself. I’m ‘Vintage’.

Bruce Gorrie @bsgorrie.bsky.social · 20d

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 20d

Wrote about the spectre haunting British politics: The Nonce. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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