@rhianejones
Red bluestocking. Writer, journalist and broadcaster on history, politics and culture. Co-editor @RedPeppermag.bsky.social Welsh. 🥃⚒️ Contact via DM or rhian@redpepper.org.uk. Dispatches: https://substack.com/@rhianejones
It is important that the government actually gives out - in writing - what it is claiming and not claiming about the fiscal impact of its settlement proposals. Ministers are now consistently making misleading claims, factually, in speeches outside parliament, + inadvertently in parliament itself
Red Pepper returns to print. 'Striking back' explores 100 years since the 1926 General Strike, migration justice, repression in Latin America and wars for oil in Nigeria and Iran. Culture critics take on film, TV, music and books.
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"Either we dismantle the systems of domination that are killing and dispossessing Palestinians, or we accept them through silence"
In the first Breaking the Sword, clandestine organisers working in the West Bank talk settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing
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Incredibly normal to be banging on the door of the Quakers repeatedly but allowing literal organisations such as Britain first to stalk homes of refugees and domestic violence survivors every weekend.
Totally normal is this government. Not worried at all.
We're back lads, and with an absolute banger of an issue.
From the archive:
A look back to Iranian President Ahmadinejad failing to deliver on his 2005 election promise to ‘put the oil money on the people’s tables’. Western aggression is a godsend for his regime, write Andreas Malm and Shora Esmailian
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I loved #Sinners and loved writing this piece for @redpeppermag.bsky.social !
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Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs.
Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.
I'm teaching a graduate level seminar on community organizing this semester. One of the fun parts has been revisiting some old organizing 101 manuals. Here's one by SDS published in 1968.
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A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
‘I remember something Alan Moore told me: "It is so important to reenchant these places that we live in, to actually give back the energies that have been bled out of them. An empowered landscape creates empowered people, and the reverse is also true….”’
A wonderful historical account if you want to know about the significance of US imperialism in Cuba today & also it's Latin American context 'Without Cuba, then, no Venezuela and without Venezuela, no Bolivia, no Ecuador, and no rebirth of Sandinista Nicaragua'
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I'm so sorry I neglected to share this soundtrack to our ruling class's demise, IN THE BACK OF AN OLD GREEN CORTINA *see you next week* www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Rz...
From the archive:
Following the 15 year anniversary of the ban on collective organising, Rahul Mahajan looks at the fightback against the Scott Walker’s Budget Repair Bill in Wisconsin
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Red Pepper returns to print. 'Striking back' explores 100 years since the 1926 General Strike, migration justice, repression in Latin America and wars for oil in Nigeria and Iran. Culture critics take on film, TV, music and books.
Order by 28 February to guarantee pre-launch delivery to your door!
From the archive:
""A jellyfish with no shape, substance or sting – but for that reserved for attacking the left. Cucked by the right of the party, his enduring legacy is that of bankrupting Labour"
Ben Smoke questions what is driving the Labour leader
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Behind the bloody headlines of Mexico’s war on drugs, creeping militarism and corruption is silencing public dissent. Government policy failures are leading to social breakdown, writes @siobhan.bsky.social with Maria Felix
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I think the collapse of print newspapers and the end of linear TV habits has created a context collapse for news. Where once day to day reporting and investigation and lifestyle sat side by side in one package, now they live as seperate things in people's minds, with reality warping effects
Police monitoring organisations are exposing Scotland’s repression of Palestine solidarity movements and challenging a ‘supportive’ national self-image, says Betsy Barkas
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"‘You can’t make a commodity out of a basic human right. We have a government that tries to maximise profit from what they see as a human resource to drain"
Sheldon Ridley spoke to students demonstrating over the student debt crisis.
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Concerns about misleading AI and influencer ‘content’ on health, welfare and civil rights miss a wider issue, argues Sophia McHardy. They fill a human-made gap that risks becoming an austerity-shaped chasm
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The much-missed Jeremy Hardy died seven years ago. In addition to his Radio 4 work, he had a column for @redpeppermag.bsky.social - here are some highlights:
"In our era of compounding crises and state abandonment, there are a lot of lessons we can take from the Blitz"
The Communist Party led efforts to secure shelter for Londoners amidst the Blitz. Fergus Lamb examines the impact and legacy of its success
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From the archive:
Following the US escalation of its blockade against Cuba, a look back from Diana Raby in 2008 about those who deny the legitimacy of the Cuban system will never understand why, after 50 years, the revolution is still an ongoing reality
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"It’s [the cultural boycott] about manifesting a united cultural front against genocide and imperialism"
A coalition of artists, gallery employees, and other culture industry workers are refusing to let the Scottish Arts sector stay silent on Palestine, an organiser tells Red Pepper
