Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/ Thu, 07 May 2026 12:41:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-RP-Sq-Logo-32x32.jpg Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/ 32 32 Behind the ‘intelligent’ chatbot https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/technology/behind-the-intelligent-chatbot/ Tue, 12 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=48189 Angela Chukunzira, Tyler Finken and Finn Jetses highlight multinational resistance to AI’s social and ecological impact

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]]> Theatre and political transformations in Brazil https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/stage-screen/theatre-and-political-transformations-in-brazil/ Fri, 08 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=48255 Luke Lewin Davies and Jenny Futuro speak to São Paulo-based playwright Filipe Pereira on the challenges of left theatre-making in Brazil’s evolving political landscape

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]]> Elections 2026: Immigration, employment and the limits of Holyrood https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/democracy/elections-2026-immigration-employment-and-the-limits-of-holyrood/ Wed, 06 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=48204 Despite Scotland's lack of power over immigration policy, migrant justice remains central to the 2026 election, writes Cailean Gallagher

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]]> Their hour of glory: Trades councils and the 1926 general strike https://www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-unions-work/work-trade-unions/their-hour-of-glory-trades-councils-and-the-1926-general-strike/ Tue, 05 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=48222 Joe Redmayne reflects on the role of trades councils during the 1926 general strike

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]]> Elections 2026: Soul searching for Scottish political identity https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/democracy/elections-2026-soul-searching-for-scottish-political-identity/ Fri, 01 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=48186 The convenient myth of civic nationalism has allowed Holyrood to ignore the rising threat of Reform for too long, argues Coll McCail

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]]> Key words: Conjuncture https://www.redpepper.org.uk/key-words/key-words-conjuncture/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=48112 Chris Goldie unpacks the concept of conjuncture, and how theorists from Louis Althusser to Stuart Hall use it to analyse social formations

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]]> Elections 2026: The left’s future is local https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/democracy/local-elections-part-two-is-the-lefts-future-local/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=48052 Candidates and campaigners debate alternative local offers to Labour and Reform, through future alliances and those already underway

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]]> Elections 2026: Think global, vote local https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/democracy/local-elections-think-global-vote-local/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=48044 Ahead of 7 May polling day, candidates and canvassers tell RPM what the left can achieve in local and devolved government

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]]> Teaching in and against the state https://www.redpepper.org.uk/society/education/teaching-in-and-against-the-state/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=48012 Should fascists ‘fear’ US public school teachers? Potentially, argues Ranita Ray. First, we must address educators' complicity with state racism and violence

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]]> Elections 2026: The return of the rotten borough? https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/democracy/the-return-of-the-rotten-borough/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=47983 Andy Brain reports on English councils’ accountability problem: candidates in ‘uncontested seats’ being elected into power – without a vote being cast

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