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Building power on the ground

Building grass roots mutual aid in South Norwood

5 sites, 1 day - 6am, 25 July - Birmingham - B'ham Bin Workers Megapicket 2

Birmingham bin strike: show your support against Labour’s austerity

The bin workers are standing up to Labour’s austerity policies – support this crucial strike.

Wind turbine near Lerwick

Review | The Shetland Way

Who benefits from the development of mega scale onshore wind on Shetland?

Party goers smash a Tesla pinata

Queer joy and support for Palestine face police harassment

The annual George Michael Memorial Party faced a police crackdown last month, after its support for Palestine last year.

Stretching Marxism

We stretch Marxism not to dilute it but to deepen it.

People hold pink umbrellas reading Stop Arming Israel and a banner reading Politics is Broken.

Political alternatives in an age of catastrophe

What socialist politics do we need in this time of disasters?

“Don’t back down, double down” – Festival of the Oppressed report

Report on rs21’s first Festival of the Oppressed gathering

Woman hods placard that says Can We Breathe Now

Hammer and heart: four theses on abolitionist communism

The connections between abolition, communism and organising for liberation

Authoritarianism with a dash of identity politics: the crime and policing bill

If passed the Crime and Policing Bill will limit human rights and the right to privacy from the state

We are all Palestine Action

rs21’s statement on the proposed proscription of Palestine Action.

UVF mural in Belfast

From Ballymena to Coolock – anti-immigrant protests in Ireland

Racism has always been part of unionism – now racist protests are gaining a foothold in the South.

Review | Lifeline to Freedom

Leftist Czech refugees to Britain in the 1930s had to cope with hostility from the British government, but also the zigzags of the Communist line laid down in Moscow.

Review | Red Flags

A new book distinguishes the liberation of October 1917 from state repression under Stalin and Mao.

How do we build revolutionary organisation?

What kind of revolutionary organisation do we need and how can we build it?

A picture of Keir Starmer at the World Economic Forum.

Labour and immigration

Keir Starmer’s Labour seems inspired by Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech

Israel’s new barbarity

The background to Israel’s new attacks on Iran

Protests by university students in front of Beyazıt Square in Istanbul

A letter from Istanbul: Reflections on the recent protests

Protests against the increasingly repressive Turkish government have now continued for months.

Woman grins, baring teeth, her mouth and chin covered in blood.

Review | Sinners

Ryan Coogler’s film is a Southern Gothic tale of vampires and race.

Large fire burning on the street

The battle of Los Angeles: the first weekend

American socialists report from the streets of California.

Reflections on organising in the retail sector

A look back at a 2022 dispute involving USDAW staff who were members of the GMB union

The Marxist Unity Caucus Platform

The Platform of rs21’s Marxist Unity Caucus

Corey Blake with CTU comrades

Chicago teachers – winning against the US right

Chicago teachers have won a new contract which improves pay and conditions but also defends school communities including migrants and LGBTQ+ people.

Person holds a placard in trans flag colours reading "respect my existence or or expect my resistance"

Fighting for trans people at work and in unions – and winning

How Unite and trans union members fought back against transphobia in a Scottish aerospace factory.

Trans protest, Parliament Square, April 2024

Trans liberation is worker liberation – resource bank

Trade unions are getting involved in the fight against transphobia. We’ve put together resources to help activists organise.

PCS conference gutted by risk management

An rs21 member in PCS reflects on this year’s conference, where a key motion on trans rights was struck off the agenda.

Educators’ pay 2025: painting over the rot

The case for a ballot, a strike and a different vision of education.

Crowd on protest applauding

Inside Die Linke 

We talked to activists from Germany’s left Die Linke party about its recent success and issues as they move forwards.

Bin workers on the picket line

Interview | On strike with Birmingham bin workers

A striking bin worker speaks about their fight to protect their pay.

Enemy Feminisms - Sophie Lewis - cover against abstract background

Review | Enemy Feminisms

Sophie Lewis’ new book is a mini-encyclopaedia of TERFs, policewomen and girlbosses.

Staff and aides defend parliament against troops during the attempted coup

South Korea: a right-wing coup defeated, but deeper issues unresolved

South Korea goes to the polls in ten days.