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Viral Spirals
Marco Berlinguer explains the growing movements for free culture and begins to explore its political and social significance

Plus Free Culture Forum 28-31 October, Barcelona
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Nuclear power? It’s still no thanks
Nuclear power is being repackaged and promoted as a green alternative to fossil fuels. But neither this claim nor the underlying costs of the industry add up, writes Oscar Reyes

French anti-pensions reform movement heads toward defeat
Leigh Philips on the state of the French trade union movements

Spending review roundup
Red Pepper picks of comments and analysis from across the web

EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION: Dismantling the NHS
Behind the technicalities, what do the government’s plans for the NHS really mean? Stewart Player and Colin Leys expose the reality of the health service white paper

Countering the cuts myths
The government and the press say we are in the grip of a debt crisis caused by the ‘bloated’ public sector. Here, Red Pepper debunks the myths used to push cuts to jobs and public services

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Editorial: The resistable rise of corporate power- Hilary Wainwright
“The last 30 years have seen the executive, first under Thatcher, then under Blair, allowing private companies to thrust a sword into the heart of public property. Cameron is now finally trying finally to destroy the public hands that could seize it back.”

Dismantling the NHS

In our October/November issue, Red Pepper investigates what the Con-Dems’ plans really mean for the NHS

Stewart Player and Colin Leys expose the reality of the health service white paper. We exclusively reveal how the dismantling of the NHS and privatisation of services is now speeding up at an unprecedented rate, and how the Tories’ NHS white paper will create a market in healthcare a lot like the one that exists in the US.

Plus Clifford Singer talked to Paul Mackney, a driving force behind the new coalition of resistance against the Con-Dem attack on public services.

Also in this issue Sue Branford assesses Lula’s legacy and how Brazil, as Wainwright states, “points to spaces for challenging the US-dominated power of the global market.”

Marco Berlinguer examines the free culture movement ahead of a major international conference and Milford Bateman delivers a wholesale critique of microfinance as a strategy for development.

In After the Flotilla, Ewa Jasciewicz considers the impact in Palestine, Israel and internationally. Siobhan McGuirk talks to Adbusters, Gavin Grindon looks at the convergence of the political and the aesthetic
and Nuclear is no green alternative, writes Oscar Reyes. Plus so much more ...

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Fight the cuts

Editorial: A new kind of angry brigade

In our August/September issue, Hilary Wainwright and John McDonnell MP write in support of Miliband senior’s socialist vision arguing that socialists today should look to his work to find a response to the crisis of the left even if this means moving beyond the Labour Party.

Red Pepper helps to arm the fight against cuts, in Countering the cuts myths we debunk 11 of the most brazen myths used to push cuts to jobs and public services showing they simply legitimise a neo-liberal political project. In Academy alarm Fiona Miller argues that many schools are doing much better than they were under the last Tory government. Robert Taylor reveals the misery that the coalition has in store for the most vulnerable and excluded arguing that it is the unemployed who are particularly earmarked for punishment.

As part of our continuing support for a new generation of activists we run a Special Focus on Feminism looking at the revival of grass-roots feminist organisation in contesting marginalisation of women and demonstrating the central importance of feminist perspectives to the future of emancipatory politics.

Plus Terry Eagleton on Papal Bull, Rashid Khalidi on Israel’s act of state piracy against the Gaza flotilla, book reviews, all our regular features, and much more

New Tory recipe, now with added Liberals

Editorial: Now to fight the cuts

In our June/July issue, Redpepper co-editor James O’Nions says we have a matter of months to mobilise against the coalitions’ planned ‘efficiency savings’.

John Holloway exposes the role we play in furthering the exploitative system and proposes what we can do to overcome capitalism. Tim Hunt investigates how workers’ cooperatives could play a part in bringing about social change. Jon Robins reveals how the battle continues for Equal Pay, 40 years after the Equal Pay Act. While Catherine Redfern and Laurie Penny debate the modern identity of the feminist movement and its future.

Also, in our ‘After the election’ section we assess the post-election political field. Jim Jepps surveys the largely disappointing results for the left; Redpepper co-editor Hilary Wainwright interviews the first Green MP Caroline Lucas; James Graham comments on the new importance of the lib-dems in the coalition; Billy Bragg argues in favour of electoral reform, Michael Calderbank considers the hopeful possibility that the BNP can be kept out of Barking for good; and Laurie Penny and Hilary Wainwright consider the future of the Labour Party.

And there’s more, including an interview about journalism today with John Pilger, Ashwin Desai and Patrick Bond investigate the impact of the World Cup and we look at the work of the Sea Shepherd turning its attention to the Mediterranean.

Plus four pages of book reviews, all our regular features, and maybe even a surprise or two.

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