Don't feed the world? How food aid can do more harm than good
While the media again reports 'famine in the horn of Africa' caused by 'drought', Rasna Warah looks at the real reasons why people are going hungry
Economic democracy - the left's big new idea Peter Tatchell says the democratisation of the economy is the key to a fairer, more just society
Reclaiming the South African dream South African activist Vishwas Satgar looks at post-apartheid South Africa 17 years on
Niger Delta: a quiet resistance Sokari Ekine meets women’s movements in the Niger Delta and discovers that in this militarised country even small acts take courage
After COP17: turning promises into action Peter Robinson on the Durban climate talks and the challenges facing climate activists.
Libya after Gaddafi: 'The continuity is striking' The National Transitional Council’s ‘new Libya’ is all too familiar, writes Tommy Miles
Punishing Palestine: How the US plays politics with aid Libby Powell on how the US has retaliated after Palestine’s UN statehood bid
Britain's Empire: ripping up the comfortable myths
Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt by Richard Gott, reviewed by Jonathan Steele
Shack fightback: Bandile Mdlalose on Abahlali baseMjondolo
Bandile Mdlalose talks to Lorna Stephenson about Abahlali baseMjondolo, a radical poor people’s movement in South Africa
Aspiring to Tahrir
Justin Pearce asks when African hope will translate into real change
From Dictatorship to Democracy: a manual for revolution?
From Dictatorship to Democracy: a conceptual framework for liberation, by Gene Sharp, reviewed by Alex Nunns
Winners and losers: The human price of Olympic gold
The metal for the 2012 medals will come from Salt Lake City and the Gobi desert. Richard Harkinson introduces activists fighting Rio Tinto plc’s hazardous mines
African awakenings: Hope for the future
Firoze Manji charts the revolts and rebellions that have been occurring not just in northern Africa but across the whole continent
Occupy Wall Street meets winter
Yotam Marom finds the Occupy movement hoping that the winter of austerity might give way to the flowering of real alternatives
Competition: Just Do It essay contest
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The Camp is the World - An open letter to the occupy movement
Luis Moreno-Caballud and Marina Sitrin on connecting the occupy movements and the Spanish May 15th movement
The Real George Osborne!
Miriam Ross on a new online comedy with political bite
#nov30 - Striking back for all our futures!
On the next steps for the trade unions following the tremendous #nov30 walkouts
Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt by Richard Gott, reviewed by Jonathan Steele
Shack fightback: Bandile Mdlalose on Abahlali baseMjondolo
Bandile Mdlalose talks to Lorna Stephenson about Abahlali baseMjondolo, a radical poor people’s movement in South Africa
Aspiring to Tahrir
Justin Pearce asks when African hope will translate into real change
From Dictatorship to Democracy: a manual for revolution?
From Dictatorship to Democracy: a conceptual framework for liberation, by Gene Sharp, reviewed by Alex Nunns
Winners and losers: The human price of Olympic gold
The metal for the 2012 medals will come from Salt Lake City and the Gobi desert. Richard Harkinson introduces activists fighting Rio Tinto plc’s hazardous mines
African awakenings: Hope for the future
Firoze Manji charts the revolts and rebellions that have been occurring not just in northern Africa but across the whole continent
Occupy Wall Street meets winter
Yotam Marom finds the Occupy movement hoping that the winter of austerity might give way to the flowering of real alternatives
Competition: Just Do It essay contest
Enter our short essay competition on direct action
The Camp is the World - An open letter to the occupy movement
Luis Moreno-Caballud and Marina Sitrin on connecting the occupy movements and the Spanish May 15th movement
The Real George Osborne!
Miriam Ross on a new online comedy with political bite
#nov30 - Striking back for all our futures!
On the next steps for the trade unions following the tremendous #nov30 walkouts
red pepper writers
One small Greek island's relentless struggle to get by Chris Jones on what Greece's crisis means for daily life on the island of Samos
Unfair cops: it's not about 'bad apples' After the News of the World scandal and the death of Mark Duggan, Val Swain asks ‘who will police the police?’
Oligarchy of the unelected David Beetham examines the growing dominance of unaccountable corporate and financial interests
Mythbuster: The truth about the unions As the Tories and their pals in the press ratchet up the anti-strike rhetoric, Red Pepper knocks down some of the myths they throw at the unions
All work and no pay - the rise of workfare Anne-Marie O’Reilly and Warren Clark report on plans to extend ‘welfare-to-work’
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