Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century
 
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Review | A Philosophical History of Police Power

Niklas Rosen reviews Melayna Kay Lamb’s book on police power.

Minneapolis: Resistance surges amid crackdown

Joe Allen examines the violence in Minneapolis and the burgeoning to resistance to it

The Employment Rights Act: what it means and where to go next

To respond to the Employment Rights Act, workers must go on the offensive

Destination Defence

Destination Defence is a new government attempt to intensify the militarisation of British society.

Review | Or Something Worse

To tackle climate breakdown, workers and communities must seize control of the environmental transition

ICE: Very American violence

The fatal killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent forces a reckoning with state violence

Venezuela after 3 January

What does the future hold for Venezuela after the kidnapping on Maduro?

Imperial machinations, oil and the rebirth of the Monroe Doctrine

Venezuela reveals a struggle for US control over the western hemisphere’s resources

Image of UKIP British flags at UKIP march Knightsbridge, west London 25th October 2025. Courtesy of Steve Eason

Fighting the far right: against the ideology of nationhood

A critical examination of how the concept of ‘the nation’ helps to advance reactionary agendas

Review | Nuremberg

A review of the film Nuremberg that was released in 2025

Tate workers on strike

Workers across the Tate Museum’s five sites have been taking strike action

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2025 Cultural Highlights: Music

As the year draws to a close, rs21 members review their music highlights of 2025

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2025 Cultural Highlights

As the year draws to a close, rs21 members review their cultural highlights of 2025

Interview | Cinema workers’ strike in Glasgow

Vue cinema workers in Glasgow are on strike

Colonial roots of Manchester’s homelessness

What are the root causes of homelessness for many people in Manchester

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Who designs the future?

As AI reshapes labour, designers confront a struggle over their creativity and the future of their work

Andrea Again together with two striking workers on a picket - standing in front of of a sign saying Wirral Evolutions. All there have clenched fists.

Left win in UNISON

The election of Andrea Egan as UNISON General Secretary has implications for the whole movement

South Africa’s hydrogen extractive frontier: climate action or recolonisation?

A critical examination of the development of green hydrogen manufacture in South Africa

Interview | Mad Youth Organise

An interview with an activist from Mad Youth Organise

What’s happening at the BBC?

The latest scandal at the BBC is just part of a much longer trend of concessions to the political right

Your Party must trust its members

A reflection on the Your Party conference and the future for the new party

Your Party and the limits of online voting 

E-democracy undermines the participatory and meaningful forms we need in Your Party

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Interview | Black Lives Matter UK

BLM UK’s approach to electoral politics, anti-racist and anti-racist organising and the struggle for a free Palestine

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Your Party founding conference: reflections and tasks

Reflections on the Your Party conference and what next

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In defence of jury trials

Labour’s proposal to end most jury trials is a reactionary step that must be fought

Masked protesters hold placards against attacks on migrant workers

Attacks on migrants are an attack on us all

New immigration proposals and attacks on migrants are an attack on all the working class

Interview | Conditions from Barlinnie prison

We conducted this interview with former HMP Barlinnie inmate Calum

Review | Emergency Exits exhibition 

The Imperial War Museum’s ‘Emergency Exits’ explores Britain’s violent retreat from empire and the brutality of colonial rule

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Solidarity with the hunger strikes

Political prisoners on hunger strike are challenging the counter-terror laws and the criminalisation of Palestinian solidarity inside Britain’s prisons

Review | The Long Heat

Elite geoengineering won’t save our warming planet