Report from the Newcastle University encampment
As the number of Palestine solidarity encampments at campuses continues to grow rs21 spoke to Brian Underhill from the encampment at Newcastle University.
Kick out the Tories, prepare to fight Starmer
Colin Wilson analyses the 2 May council and mayoral elections in England.
Long hot summer?
London, Glasgow, Manchester – a brief flash of activity or the start of a long hot summer?
From protest to resistance
As student camps in support of Gaza and divestment from Israel continue to spring up on campuses, Tempest Collective member Joe Allen explains the impact they are having on American politics.
Resist Sunak’s demonisation of disabled people
An analysis of how new governmental measures continue to demonise and punish disabled people.
How should socialists think about political tradition?
“Our task isn’t to guard a faith, a static tradition.”
Climate failure sparks SNP crisis
Pete Cannell looks at how the gulf between the SNP’s rhetoric and climate policies that relied on partnership with the oil and gas industry sparked a crisis.
Remembering the Portuguese Revolution
Marxist historian Raquel Varela remembers the Portuguese revolution of April 25 1974 and its aftermath
The Tories’ pro-natalism agenda
Colin Wilson unpacks the right-wing agendas behind the new Tory childcare policy.
rs21 updates its ‘About Us’ statement
The new rs21 ‘about us’ – how the membership designed the new statement
Interview with Energy Embargo for Palestine
rs21 interviews the activist group Energy Embargo for Palestine
1974 – an end and a beginning
Willie Black looks back at 1974. A pivotal year both in Britain and across the world – high points of workers’ struggles, but also the beginning of five decades of neo-liberalism
Cass Review: dangerous and transphobic
Lisa Leak and Colin Wilson explain why we should reject Cass and renew the fight for trans liberation.
Video | Abolition Revolution
Why do we have a police force in the first place? How does policing uphold racism, capitalism and colonialism?
Teachers’ union conference battles over pay strikes
Palestine, pay cuts and protest: NEU activists challenge the union’s bureaucracy in the face of another expected real terms pay cut.
Interview | Empire of Normality
Hazel Croft talks to author Robert Chapman about their new book and discusses neurodiversity and how we can challenge the capitalist logics of ‘normality’.
The DRC bleeds because of the world’s greed
Report from a Stand with Congo demonstration in Central London on 6 April where at least a hundred protestors gathered to highlight the situation in the eastern Congo
The revolutionary theatre of Bertolt Brecht
Australian socialist Tess Lee Ack celebrates the life and work of the revolutionary playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht.
Militarism and anti-militarism
In the midst of an arms industry boom, we need to link anti-imperialism to anti-militarism.
Review | The State and Revolution
Lenin’s The State and Revolution is one of the most important books he ever wrote, a restatement and rediscovery of the revolutionary understanding of the state.
L3Harris Peace Camp in Brighton
Sussex rs21 member Lou Hayton reports on the diversity of Palestine organising in Brighton
Resisting state brutality in Senegal
History of the political crisis in Senegal in light of the current elections.
I Forgot to Die: thinking through the social reproduction of Palestinian life
Tithi Bhattacharya uses the lens of social reproduction theory to show how the disruption and annihilation of Palestine life is inherent to the Zionist project.
Climate denial and far right populism
Pete Cannell explores the way in which far right populist parties are using climate denial as a key part of their agenda.
Haiti: “The truth speaks for itself”
As violence escalates in Haiti, we republish this statement by Robert Roth which identifies US and UN intervention as the source of the crisis.
The Socialist Alliance, George Galloway and Respect: left electoralism the last time around
After George Galloway’s Rochdale victory, David Renton reflects on past left electoral vehicles, and why democracy and accountability are essential.
Review | Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
Housing activist Kate Bradley reviews Nick Bano’s Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
Whither Poland
Dan Davison analyses the new Polish government, the Polish left, and the rise of the far right.
The Courtaulds strike of 1965 – Black workers fighting back
Sue Sparks of the IS History Project uncovers the history of one of the first Black workers’ strikes against racism in the 1960s.
Lenin, National Liberation and Palestine
Gus Woody reviews Imperialism and the National Question recently published by Verso.