From new wave to gospel to thrash metal, Red Pepper editors pick out the songs and albums that shaped their political ...

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David Matthews shares his pick of the best books upcoming and hot off the press – perfect for holiday and sunny day reads ...

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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 ...

There have been a number of works examining the rise, decline and fall of the Soviet system but few from the angle of serious post-Soviet Marxism, at least when it comes to works translated into ...

I was 15 when I attended my first Radiohead concert in Dublin and was thrilled to see a Free Tibet banner hanging on the stage. In 2000, this was a cause celebre and my little activist heart – usually ...

For decades, Israel’s settler colonial and apartheid state has denied Palestinians the basic right to water. Water apartheid is a deliberate system of state-led policies that restrict a racialised ...

The ongoing Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people has provided an appalling reminder of the importance of critically studying the nature of imperialist practices in the 21st century. As a ...

Rave subculture has attracted considerable infamy over its relatively short lifetime. However, among all the lurid tabloid reporting of hedonistic free-for-alls, rave also developed a reputation for ...