Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century
 
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What trade unionism? A transport strike case study

A case study of a dispute which illustrates the impact of different models of trade unionism and some of the challenges facing workplace activists.

Trump’s second term: fascism in the US?

Continuing the discussion of what we can expect from Trump’s second term, highlighting the risks and the opportunities for resistance.

Farage with Union Jack in the European parliament

Be concerned – Reform is coming

We need to work out how to facilitate the flourishing of forms of culture and identity conducive to new coalitions, new common-senses and a mass socialist politics of “freedom dreams”

Review | One hundred years of solitude

A review of the new film version of Gabriel García Márquez’s wonderful novel ‘One hundred years of solitude’, first published in 1967

Patrice Lumumba signs the document granting independence to the Congo next to Belgian Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens

Review | Soundtrack to a coup d’etat

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat uses jazz and contemporary voices to expose how Belgium and the US undermined the newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo

Review | Burnout

Samuel Kelly reviews Hannah Proctor’s Burnout, a timely exploration of the emotional toll of political struggle, offering ways to navigate despair and sustain hope in our movements. 

Video | Trump, the US elections, fascism

Will Trump rule as a fascist? A video discussion of the outcomes of the US election.

2024 cultural highlights: music

rs21 members review their music highlights of the year.

2024 cultural highlights

rs21 members review their cultural highlights of the year.

Review | Mixing Pop and Politics

A review of Mixing Pop and Politics by Toby Manning, a Marxist history of popular music that analyses the relationship between society’s economic base and its cultural superstructure.

What’s left of the bourgeois family? On family abolition

The call to abolish the family is back, sparking fierce debate.

Syria: history shapes our organising today

How does the overthrow of Assad fit in the wider context of the Middle East, Israeli aggression and inter-imperialist competition, and how do we centre the Syrian fight for popular freedom in our practical solidarity in Britain?

Picture of Keir Starmer, Leader of the Labour Party, and Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, during a visit to Tilbury Port, Essex, where they toured the site and met with apprentices on November 23, 2023

Is this the end of austerity? Making sense of Britain under Labour

Can Starmer and Reeves deliver lasting change—or will their plans flop under scrutiny?

Building Fortress Britain: Labour’s policies on immigration 

Labour intensifies deportations, workplace raids and migrant exploitation.

Review | Coming to terms with China

Weighing up two new books on contemporary China.

Review | Become Ungovernable

HLT Quan’s manifesto for ungovernability contributes to strategies for resisting state violence.

Video | Everything is changing in relation to this

The fall of Assad and what next for Syria

A tractor and a sign saying 'food needs a farmer'

A rural revolt? On recent farmer mobilisations in Britain

The underlying context of the farmers’ protests

Palestine activists face the British state of terror

The British state’s anti-terror powers target pro-Palestine activists unjustly

Review | Overshoot: How the world surrendered to climate breakdown

Malm and Carton’s revolutionary call to climate action

Lebanon: imperialist penetration and anti-imperialist contradictions – part 2

Part two of a three part series of articles on anti-Zionist resistance and the development of the Lebanese state

Review | She Who Struggles

Exploring the role of women in twentieth-century revolutionary and national-liberation movements.

Red Bird #7 | March en masse and target supply chains

It has never been clearer that the institutions of ‘international order’ are a sham. We have now witnessed over a year of genocidal assault on the Palestinian people in Gaza, as well as the wider attacks on the West Bank and the people of Lebanon. These imperial attacks remain supported to the hilt by Western […]

blocks of flats and street art

Lessons from militant organising in tenants’ unions

Critical reflections on the ACORN model.

Black Bundists: Remembering Flame

Revisiting Flame and anti-racist struggles 1970s Britain

Is it time for a new left party in Britain?

A contribution to the debate about a new left party by rs21 members. 

Earth hurtles toward ultimate tipping point as climate summit ends in a cop-out

Amid climate catastrophe, hope hinges on action.

Review | Raising the Red Flag

The lead up to the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1921, and lessons for today

activists sit on an NHS building with a banner that reads 'We are not pawns for your politics'.

Trans youth fight back: an interview with Trans Kids Deserve Better

The NHS, the Department of Education, and youth organising for trans liberation.

Everything must fall, everything must change

The current regime in Kenya has been struck a devastating blow by the uprising of youth. The state has been weakened and is now vulnerable. This regime can fall.