School strikes update: what we need to do to win
The NEU has called new strikes in England on 5 and 7 July in pursuit of their pay claim. Here’s how we win the dispute.
Review | Bodies Under Siege
Even traditional mainstream conservative parties are linked to proponents of reactionary ‘Great Replacement’ theories.
The Brook House Three trial: a major victory for anti-deportation activists
Jury sees justice in their activism: Lisa Leak reports on the trial.
Review | The New Cold War
The new imperialist world order is characterised by increasing military tensions between the world’s major powers, but also by economic competition.
Schofield: a homophobic attack, an unequal relationship
The Philip Schofield affair highlights both homophobia and the reality of sexual abuse in certain workplaces.
Fighting on for higher pay in the NHS
As junior doctors in the BMA prepare for three days of strike action this week, the pay fight isn’t over across the health service.
What next for the Gender Recognition Reform Bill?
Sara Bennett shows the GRR Bill as a pawn for both Tories and Sturgeon.
The Saramago dispute: hospitality organising in Glasgow
An interview with the workers who organised.
Review | Health Communism
How has capitalism wrecked health and care? Shiraz Hussain reviews Health Communism.
Voter suppression and protest repression: the Tories’ attack on democracy
The government is swiftly and systematically destroying the rights on which ordinary people rely: to vote, to protest, to strike.
Behind the Cardiff riot: a community failed by police and politicians
Following the tragic death of two young people in Ely on Monday and the riot that followed, the police’s version of events has unravelled. But, as Ann Marie Zogina reports, the area in west Cardiff has not only been failed by the police, but the politicians who claim to represent it as well. Tragedy has […]
Review | Marx in the Anthropocene
The joys and pitfalls of degrowth communism – Gus Woody reviews an important new book on ecosocialism.
Nakba 75: solidarity and resistance until Palestine is free
John Nicholson reports on the Nakba 75 demonstration and march on 14 May 2023 in Manchester, providing some background on why the day is so important to mark.
‘The Generals’ fight for power is not our fight’ – interview
Interview with a Sudanese activist about about the escalating armed conflict between rival factions of the ruling junta and its impact on the revolutionary dynamic in Sudan.
Glass Onion – foolishly transparent
Maurice Ramboz reviews Glass Onion, asking what the film’s titular metaphor tells us about capitalist ideology.
Reflections on International Workers’ Memorial Day
To mark IWMD, the rs21 Art Group made a zine with Cut-Through Collective, which we distributed in Glasgow and London across the May Day weekend.
Extinction Rebellion at a crossroads
XR changed tactics for the Big One. Gus Woody comments on the protest and next moves.
Sunak suffers, Starmer stalls – the council elections in England
Rachel Iboraii celebrates the Tories’ losses in last week’s council elections in England, and questions why Labour isn’t profiting more from the government’s woes.
Solidarity with the popular movement in Sudan
rs21 stands in unconditional solidarity with the popular movement in Sudan. The revolutionary process continues to be endangered by open conflict between factions within the military junta, now in its fourth week. We reprint here three statements that have been circulated by the MENA Solidarity Network. The first is an appeal from April 19, 2023. […]
Review | Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
‘The mute compulsion of economic relations sets the seal on the domination of the capitalist over the worker.’
Intersectional organising wall-to-wall at Rutgers University
Tempest member Dana Cloud spoke to Rutgers professor and union leader Deepa Kumar about how the unions united faculty and graduate students across academic ranks in a strike that brought the administration to the bargaining table and won major gains. This strike is a signal moment in the USA’s higher education labour movement. This interview first […]
Coronation hypothermia
rs21 member Colin Wilson considers the relative lack of enthusiasm for King Charles III’s Coronation.
Rosa Luxemburg on May Day and working class struggles
On International Workers’ Day, or May Day, rs21 presents two classic texts by the revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg on the history and significance of the day. What Are the Origins of May Day? (1894) The happy idea of using a proletarian holiday celebration as a means to attain the eight-hour day was first born in […]
South Korea and inter-imperialist rivalries
Interview with a South Korean revolutionary socialist about the international situation in east Asia and the growing tensions between China and the USA.
UCU dispute: members can win the marking and assessment boycott
As the UCU’s marking and assessment boycott gets underway, rs21 members in UCU underline the need for more rank-and-file initiatives and a commitment to genuine member-led democracy in the union. Even before the marking and assessment boycott (MAB) by UCU members in the higher education sector got underway, the union was racking up some successes. […]
Chernobyl 1986 – when nuclear power came of age
A lethal combination of technical arrogance, corporate and state deceit and human fallibility that will forever lie at the heart of nuclear power.
Review | Future on Fire: mass movements in the climate crisis
What movement do we need? Taisie Tsikas reviews David Camfield’s new book on climate tactics.
Pogroms and protests in Israel
As attacks on Palestinians increase, we reprint an article by Australian socialist Rick Kuhn that puts the offensive into the wider context of the increasing divisions among Israeli politicians.
Review | The Communist Road to Capitalism and The Left in China
Charlie Hore reviews two important books on struggle from below in China.
Uprising in France: the urgency of coordination from below
As the wave of revolt against pension reform in France continues, Clément Mouhot writes about the latest stage of the movement. On Thursday 13 April, France erupted again with the twelfth “journée d’action” (day of action) in the ongoing movement against President Macron’s pension reforms. All the unions, united in the so-called “intersyndicale”, put out […]