Reversing the flow
To undo prison culture, we need to reverse exclusionary, utilitarian, capitalist culture. This includes dismantling the school to prison pipeline, argues Ewa Jasiewicz
The nationalist unconscious
To fully grasp the rise of the new authoritarians, we must engage with psychoanalysis as well as economics, writes Richard Seymour
Lockdown live: ‘Race Today’
Join Red Pepper editor K Biswas and guests Paul Gilroy, Lola Olufemi, Ciaran Thapar and Joy White to discuss marginality, inequality, creativity and belonging in Britain
Brazilian oligarchs sacrifice people for profit
Business leaders are using social media and political influence to spread coronavirus disinformation – and endangering thousands of lives. Raphael Tsavkko Garcia reports
Review – Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu
Suchandrika Chakrabarti reviews Wendy Liu's proposals to reclaim technology's potential for the public good
My father’s 13 years as a Palestinian political prisoner
Shahd Abusalama recounts her father Ismail's experience in the Israeli prison system and calls for drastic reforms
Review – One Man’s Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA by Daniel Finn
Connor Beaton reviews Daniel Finn's account of the politics and personalities which drove the IRA
How to make comedy in the time of Corona
Comedian Elf Lyons discusses creative innovation and rebellion in a dystopian age
Reclaiming work: can cooperatives overthrow the gig economy?
Shyam Krishna reviews Reclaiming Work, a new documentary by black and brown film that looks at how cycle courier cooperatives are using technology against gig economy giants
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It’s after the end of the world: inequality and doomsday
As apocalypse rhetoric spreads during Covid-19, James Hendrix Elsey explores what 'the end of the world' really means under racialised capitalism – and what comes next
No police in our schools
As students return to school and protests against institutional racism spread across the UK, the left must keep monitoring - and opposing - efforts to put police into classrooms, says Remi Joseph-Salisbury
Swords into ploughshares; planes into ventilator parts
The speedy switch in from producing airplane wings to ventilator parts at a north Wales factory holds out an example for a transition to a low-carbon economy, writes Hilary Wainwright
From the US to the UK: shared legacies of black struggle
Far too often, we think of police brutality in the US as exceptional. Families on both sides of the Atlantic tell stories that prove otherwise. Black Britain must be heard, writes Wail Qasim
