Failure to deliver

Major financial institutions have cited Deliveroo’s employment practices for its disastrous public share launch. Alice Martin and Tom Powdrill look at what went wrong and what it might mean for workers’ rights


What’s at stake for the left in Unite’s General Secretary election? An interview with Steve Turner and Sharon Graham

As the election of a new General Secretary for Britain's biggest trade union gets underway, Red Pepper speaks to left candidates Steve Turner and Sharon Graham.

Prevent strategy funding Birmingham theatre

The government’s Prevent strategy is funding productions that will damage community relations, argues Keith McKenna

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The working-class voices publishing against the grain

Luke Charnley reports on the new publishing houses getting working-class writers onto the printed page.

Between the posts

From Twitter takeovers to the European Super League, Neville Southall talks to Jake Woodier about politics and sport


A decade of student dissent

Various authors look back on student revolts worldwide over the last decade

Anti-racism under attack

Around the world, politicians and school boards are demonising Critical Race Theory. They're scared of its transformational power, argues Remi Joseph-Salisbury

Review – Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too

In this timely book, Matthew Brown and Rhian E. Jones explore new forms of democratic collectivism across the UK, writes Hilary Wainwright.

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Covid and the household economy crisis

Even before the pandemic, the squeeze on household time and income had reached crisis point. Ursula Huws examines social reproduction in the digital age


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Direct action and the decrepit British establishment

Faced with an authoritarian government and decaying left-wing establishment, grassroots movements must turn to direct action, writes Rohan Rice

The Firm and its long-lasting grip

Laura Clancy examines the history of the Crown, its role in empire and its continuing functional and ideological purpose today

When truth is not enough

Ted Benton tackles questions of truth, science and radical alternatives in a period of political turmoil

Sporting politics

Behind the fanfare, numerous political, social and economic debates will play out during this years sporting events, argues Siobhán McGuirk