Red Pepper directory

We aim to provide a comprehensive list of left, green and radical web sites in the UK, as well as selected international sites. Help us keep this directory up to date. Have you got sites to recommend? Are there links here that no longer work? Please email suggested sites or comments.

Democracy, human rights : UK, International
Development
Disabilty
Green/environmental: UK, International, Transport, Animal rights, Anti-corporate
Lesbian and gay
Political Parties: Labour Party sites, Green Parties, Socialist Alliance, Scottish Socialist Party, Other Parties
Peace: General resources, War on Terror
Protest/Direct Action
Publications, resources and research: UK media, International media, Media Activism, Publishers, Resources
Society - Anti-Racism
Society - Health, housing, welfare
Trade unions: Labour movement resources, British unions, International
Women


Democracy, human rights

Democracy, human rights: UK

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Democracy, human rights: International

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Development

  • BOND
    BOND is a network of over 260 UK based voluntary organisations working in international development and development education

  • CODA International Training
    Working for the transfer of skills to democratic organisations working for progressive change in Southern Africa and Central America

  • European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights
    a London-based European campaigning/support group for Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

  • Idealist
    The global clearing house for non-profit and volunteering resources

  • Intermediate Technology
    An international development agency which aims to enable poor people in the South to develop skills and technologies which give them more control over their lives

  • One World
    Huge (and excellent) integrated parent site for many of the major British development NGOs and international campaign groups

  • Overseas Development Institute
    An independent centre for development research

  • Oxfam
    The home pages of one of the largest overseas development agencies in t he UK

  • Survival International
    Supporting tribal peoples through public campaigns, education and funding


  • Techknowledgy
    supplies basic computers to developing countries for educational use

  • World Development Movement
    Campaigns to tackle the root causes of poverty. With our partners around the world , we win positive change for the world's poorest people.

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Green/environmental

UK environmental

 

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International environmental

  • The Amazing Environmental Organization Directory
    A vast international environmental directory

  • CREST (formerly Solstice)
    Information and connections on energy efficiency, renewable energy and sustainable technology

  • Earth Summit Watch
    Following the Earth Summit of 1992, this is an effort to hold our leaders accountable for their commitments to address the environmental, social and economic challenges facing our global society

  • EcoNet
    Building coalitions and partnerships over the net with for environmental preservation and sustainability

  • Envirolink
    An environmental resource from a grassroots online community

  • Greenpeace International
    The campaigning organisation on global environmental problems


  • Green Skies
    a worldwide information network on the environmental effects of aviation

  • Living Earth
    An international organisation to help people take responsibility for their impact on the environment.

  • Rainforest Action Network
    Working to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action

  • Rising Tide Britain Holland
    Protests against the US Kyoto position and a tour coming to a town near you!

  • Scientists for Global Responsibility
    An independent organisation of scientists, formed in response to the irresponsible use of science and technology


  • Stop Esso !
    the ongoing international boycott of ExxonMobil over climate change

  • Sustainable Times
    a webzine that cover international and sustainable development issues

  • Vegetarian Pages
    The centre for vegetarianism on the net


  • World Resources Institute
    provides information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental problems

 

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Roads and transport

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Animal rights

 

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Anti-corporate

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Lesbian and Gay

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Parties and organisations

Labour Party and connected sites

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Green parties

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Socialist Alliance

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Scottish Socialist Party

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Other Parties

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Peace

  • Action for People in Conflict
    A charity to help victims of conflict caused by racial, ethnic, social, religious or cultural intolerance

  • CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)
    The youth and student section

  • ConflictNet
    A US network dedicated to promoting the constructive resolution of conflict; an extensive resource of information and contacts

  • Peace Pledge Union
    an independent organisation that believes war and violent conflict are neither necessary nor inevitable. Their annual White Poppy campaign challenges popular assumptions about war, and spotlights creative techniques of conflict prevention and conflict resolution


  • Troops Out Movement
    Campaign for the withdrawl of the British military from Northern Ireland

  • United Nations Association
    Works to further the original principles of the UN and to foster global co-operation and understanding though education

  • World Court Project UK
    An effort to find nuclear weapons illegal through the International Court of Justice

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Peace - War on Terror

 

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Protest/Direct Action

Online Activism

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Direct Action Groups

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Publications, resources and research

UK media:

  • The Big Issue
    The Big Issue campaigns on behalf of homeless people, highlights the major social issues of the day, and allows homeless people to voice their views and opinions

  • The Citizen
    The web site for the quarterly journal of the Campaign for Socialism - from the office of Alex Falconer M
    EP

  • The Guardian Weekly
    a compact digest of the best of international news, politics, features and comment from the Washington Post, le Monde, the Guardian and the Observer newspapers


  • Labour Left Briefing
    An independent voice and forum for socialist ideas in the Labour Party and trade unions, with an excellent list of links

  • The Morning Star
    Britain's socialist daily newspaper

  • Regeneration
    The Labour Party's youth magazine

  • SchNEWS
    The newsletter of Justice?, Brighton's direct action network

  • Scottish Left Review
    a bi-monthly website magazine that will seek to provide a focal point of thought and discussion for the Scottish Left

  • Squall
    Wide-ranging, hard-hitting direct action magazine

  • Urban 75
    Well-designed underground/direct action net magazine

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International media

  • AGLOB
    a new leftist online magazine (on Russia, globalisation and civil society) by the Institute of Globalization Studies (IPROG) headed by Boris Kagarlitsky

  • Arena
    An Aus
    tralian journal of left political, social and cultural commentary

  • Common Dreams
    columnists and a collection of reprinted progressive writing (US-focused)

  • Counterpunch
    a bi-weekly newsletter with a radical attitude that battles against the war machine, big business and the rapers of nature

  • Democracy Now!
    a US listener-sponsored public radio (over 120 stations) and TV show, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the country

  • The Drudge Report
    Heretical US journalist Matt Drudge dishes the dirt


  • Environment News Service
    an independently owned and operated daily international wire service on the environment


  • Index on Censorship
    The magazine for free speech

  • International Viewpoint
    Politics around the world from a socialist perspective

  • Le Monde Diplomatique (english edition)
    a critical monthly newspaper of international events and culture

  • Mother Jones
    an independent US nonprofit with investigative reporting

  • rabble
    news for the rest of us (Canada-focused)

  • Social Criticism Review
    Articles on man, nature and the dysfunctional scientific-technical complex

  • Stay Free!
    Magazine focused on issues surrounding commercialism and American culture

  • The Nation
    unconventional wisdom since 1865

  • The Village Voice
    a weekly progressive newspaper published in New York City (NYC urban politics, US politics, critical arts coverage)

  • Web Active
    A weekly e-zine designed to keep activists up to date


  • Z Magazine
    The leading progressive left magazine from the US

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Media Activism

  • AMARC
    the world association of community radio broadcasters

  • Community Media Association
    news, information, services and a gateway to community media organisations in the UK and worldwide

  • La Lutta New Media Collective
    education, visual and performing arts, and multimedia outreach activity

  • Media Workers Against War
    working in all types of media and opposed to the so called "war on terrorism" and the mainstream media's support for aggressive action against innocent civilians under the pretence of "anti-terrorism"

  • Paper Tiger Television
    uses a public access TV series, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings and grassroots advocacy PTTV works to challenge and expose the corporate control of mainstream media


  • Undercurrents
    Provides support and training to video activists and produces a video magazine of documentaries made by video activists

  • Whispered Media
    a collective that promotes the use of video, and other media tools, in progressive grassroots movements


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Publishers

  • ABCtales.com
    Website and magazine that lets all writers get published for free

  • AK Press
    Anarchist press

  • Alternative Press Index
    the leading guide to the alternative
    press in the US and around the world

  • Attic Press
    specialises in Irish/Women's Studies, history and practical Reference books by, for and about women, with a strong international and Irish profile

  • Cleis Press
    literature, human rights journalism, erotica and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and gender studies

  • Common Courage Press
    books for an informed democracy

  • Fernwod Publishing
    aboriginal studies, history, labour studies, womenıs studies, gender studies, critical theory and research, political economy, cultural studies, and social work

  • Left Turn Books
    providing sources of information, analysis and debate that can strengthen links between activists


  • Monthly Review Press
    Dedicated to a Marxist analyis of politics and economics. Also includes excerpts from their monthly magazine: The Monthly Review.

  • New Clarion Press
    an independent UK publisher of books on history, politics and social policy written from a radical and reforming perspective

  • South End Press
    A collective dedicated to publishing books that nurture and inspire social change

  • World Socialist Books
    Socialist Press

  • Zed Books
    books with a critical vision

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Resources and research


Society - anti-racism

  • Asylum Aid
    free legal advice and representation to refugees and asylum-seekers seeking safety in the UK from persecution

  • Black Environmental Network
    working across diverse sectors for ethnic environmental participation

  • Campaign Against Racism and Fascism
    Britain's only independent anti-racist magazine, documenting resistance against racism - from black and refugee organisations, monitoring groups, anti-deportation campaigns, and more

  • Commission for Racial Equality
    a publicly funded, independent organisation that exists to tackle racial discrimination

  • Injustice
    a film about the struggles for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody

  • Kick It Out
    football's anti-racism campaign since 1993

  • National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns
    bringing together families and individuals who are fighting deportation

  • Operation Black Vote
    a non-party political campaign to over voter registration, demonstrating collective community potential and confronting politicians with the reality of what it means to be Black in Britain

  • Race in Britain (The Guardian)
    a collection of recent articles, as well as links to the various reports/inquiries on racial rioting and violence in the summer of 2001

  • The RAM Project
    promoting best practice in media representation of refugee and asylum issues

  • Searchlight
    the international anti-fascist magazine

  • UNITED for Intercultural Action
    more than 550 organisations from 49 European countries working together - united in the biggest anti-racism network



Society - health, housing, welfare

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Trade unions

Labour movement resources

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British unions

  • TUC (Trade Union Congress)

  • GFTU (General Federation of Trade Unions)
    Federation of specialist unions

  • AEEU
    Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union

  • AUT
    Association of University Teachers

  • BECTU 
    Brodcasting Entertainment Cinematography and Theatre Union

  • CWU
    Communication Workers Union

  • CYWU 
    Community and Youth Workers' Union. NEW site under construction.

  • FDA 
    Association of First Division Civil Servants

  • GMB  
    General and Muncipal and Boilermakers Union

  • GPMU  
    Graphical Paper and Media Union

  • Media Unions
    Including the BECTU and the NUJ

  • MSF
    Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union

  • Musicians' Union

  • NASUWT 
    National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers

  • NUJ 
    The National Union of Journalists

  • NUS
    National Union of Students

  • PCS
    Public Services, Tax and Commerce Union

  • STE 
    Society of Telecom Executives

  • TGWU
    Transport and General Workers Union

  • Unison
    Britain's biggest union

  • USDAW  
    Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers

  • URTU 
    United Road Transport Union

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International unions

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Women

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