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Cover story 12 TRANSITION TIME After 31 years, Red Pepper is ceasing print production. HILARY WAINWRIGHT and SIOBHÁN MCGUIRK explain the decision – and introduce potential transitions to come 14 LIFE IN PRINT Former Red Pepper editor K BISWAS casts a personal eye on the ebb and flow of left media fortunes 16 CONTENT VS CLICKBAIT Left media producers must work both in and against the online content economy 18 HOLD THE PRESS Left-wing publications past and present 2O NECESSARY AND (IM)POSSIBLE The New Socialist experience: challenges, ambitions and necessities facing left media 22 SHELF LIFE How physical media is integral to modern media operations – with a new purpose in the digital age 23 RIPPING YARNS Launching Left Cultures – and embracing non-hierarchical approaches to publishing 24 SELLING DOPE Spreading radical left ideas while earning money for homeless and financially precarious vendors 25 MENTORSHIP MATTERS Supporting marginalised voices 26 LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS Holding power to account with investigative journalism 27 UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE The global south must be part of left media futures 28 WHAT’S NEXT? What do you want Red Pepper to become? CONTENts Regulars 3 Editorial SIOBHÁN McGUIRK & HILARY WAINWRIGHT 6 Letters On the web 8 Snapshots The world in struggle 29 Keywords Pluriverse 45 The Spark JEN DEERINWATER 4 RED PEPPER 247 Spring 2025 Cover illustration by Luke Carter luke-carter.com 31 Syria’s turbulent transition Civilian-led peacebuilding efforts are crucial to Syria after the overthrow of Assad 34 Rojava in the crosshairs The Kurdish-led revolution provides a beacon of hope, but it must be fought for 31 36 Crude injustice Transnational oil companies’ ‘divestment’ from Nigeria leaves behind a trail of destruction 38 The people vs the billionaire Thousands of Georgians are protesting against the ruling Georgian Dream party 36
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Party time? 47 Party time? Defeated and marginalised but resilient and unbowed. What does the left do next? 48 Harnessing the best What a new party of the left might look like 50 Utopian pragmatism Any new socialist organisation must put proletarian antiracism at its heart 52 No shortcuts We need to build an independent politics from below, writes HILARY WAINWRIGHT 54 The power of place Red Pepper speaks to local independent left candidates JAMIE DRISCOLL (Tyneside) and ANDREW FEINSTEIN (London) 54 56 Independence movement Left activists building connections locally and nationally 58 The glue that binds Economic power in the community is the antidote to the far right’s growing appeal in Cymru, write BETH WINTER and LEANNE WOOD 59 Britain unbowed JAMES MEADWAY says the French experience shows how a broad left front might be forged Essay 32 Crack-up capitalism Jenny Peace considers how the left should respond to the failings of liberal democracy in the face of the new capitalist authoritarianism Culture 67 Culture previews 48 60 Strike Map Building solidarity with workers taking industrial action 64 Building the post-Soviet world From the corrupt to the inspired – the architecture that followed the fall of the Soviet Union 68 Books Metaphysical Animals; In Defence of Barbarism; My Country, Africa; Reasons to Rebel; The Mechanic and the Luddite; We Grow the World Together 78 Books previews 60 62 Truth tellers +972 magazine – a lone Palestinian-Israeli voice in a sea of hostile media RED PEPPER 247 Spring 2025 5

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Cover story

12 TRANSITION TIME After 31 years, Red Pepper is ceasing print production.

HILARY WAINWRIGHT and SIOBHÁN MCGUIRK explain the decision – and introduce potential transitions to come

14 LIFE IN PRINT Former Red Pepper editor K BISWAS casts a personal eye

on the ebb and flow of left media fortunes

16 CONTENT VS CLICKBAIT Left media producers must work both in and against the

online content economy

18 HOLD THE PRESS Left-wing publications past and present

2O NECESSARY AND (IM)POSSIBLE The New Socialist experience:

challenges, ambitions and necessities facing left media

22 SHELF LIFE How physical media is integral to modern media operations

– with a new purpose in the digital age

23 RIPPING YARNS Launching Left Cultures – and embracing non-hierarchical

approaches to publishing

24 SELLING DOPE Spreading radical left ideas while

earning money for homeless and financially precarious vendors

25 MENTORSHIP MATTERS Supporting

marginalised voices

26 LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS Holding power

to account with investigative journalism

27 UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE The global south must be

part of left media futures

28 WHAT’S NEXT? What do you want Red Pepper to

become?

CONTENts

Regulars

3 Editorial SIOBHÁN McGUIRK &

HILARY WAINWRIGHT

6 Letters On the web

8 Snapshots The world in struggle

29 Keywords Pluriverse

45 The Spark JEN DEERINWATER

4 RED PEPPER 247 Spring 2025

Cover illustration by Luke Carter luke-carter.com

31 Syria’s turbulent transition Civilian-led peacebuilding

efforts are crucial to Syria after the overthrow of Assad

34 Rojava in the crosshairs The Kurdish-led revolution

provides a beacon of hope, but it must be fought for

31

36 Crude injustice Transnational

oil companies’ ‘divestment’ from Nigeria leaves behind a trail of destruction

38 The people vs the billionaire

Thousands of Georgians are protesting against the ruling Georgian Dream party

36

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