Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century
 
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Trans people with placards

On Counterfire and trans oppression

Socialists must stand with trans people.

People hold placard reading "trans bodies are not a political playground"

Stand together against attacks on trans people

Over forty local vigils for Brianna Ghey are planned. Stand together against the transphobes.

Teachers in Myanmar march with placards saying 'Respect Our Votes', on a tree-lined road. The march extends back into the distance.

What future for Myanmar? Perspectives from the left

Students, workers, militants and Marxists offer tactics to resist the junta in Myanmar.

Review | Shake the City – Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis

Kate Bradley reviews Shake the City by Alexander Billet, a well-written and thought-provoking book on the role of music in making political change.

Image shows a banner reading 'Paris 8 en lutte: faisons battre en retraite Macron et les patrons'. In English this means 'make Macron and the bosses retreat', though it is also a pun on retirement ('la retraite').

France: standing up to Macron

Following recent strikes and demonstrations in France over pension reform, Clément Mouhot writes about the causes of the most recent wave of protest in France.

Poster with text Prince Harry: Rebel without a crown

Prince Harry: from spare to where?

Harry’s privileged life and lack of self-awareness mean that this attempt at rebranding doesn’t work.

Manchester rally

Half a million on strike – organise in your workplace to beat the Tories

A brilliant day – now escalate the strikes, build our unions at the grassroots.

NEU members march with banner reading "schools need £2 billion now"

School staff: how we organised to win our dispute

NEU members united the staff group in their school and won a strike ballot

January 2023’s week of resistance

Photographs celebrating the wave of protests and industrial action that swept Britain last week.

a crowd of mixed ages waves Palestinian flags outside court. Banners in red, green and black writing say 'Drop the charges Not the bombs', 'End Israeli apartheid'.

Elbit is losing – support the Palestine Action protesters facing trial

Palestine Action confronted Elbit’s making weapons for Israel. Now we need to show solidarity with Palestince Action activists in court.

‘Adult Human Female’ and the contradictions of left-wing transphobia

rs21 member Úna O’Shea debunks a film that claims to provide a ‘materialist’ basis for gender essentialism. 

Protest outside RWE office

Climate protest: London stands with Lützerath

A corporate polluter is demolishing a village to expand a coal mine

Teachers picket outside a school in Edinburgh, holding placards saying 'Pay Attent10n'. The morning sky is still dark.

50 shades of luminous: the Scottish teachers’ strikes

‘A win for the teachers will act as a beacon and galvanise the wider strike wave.’ Nick Cimini reports on the teachers’ strike in Scotland.

No more divide and rule – fight for trans rights!

Trans activist and rs21 member Leslie Cunningham exposes the lies and hypocrisy behind the Tory attack on trans rights and democracy in Scotland.

NEU members on a demo with balloon

NEU joins the fight: five ways to build the strike

Real world tips on what to do in your school.

Train station with platforms only accessible using stairs

Stop the exclusion of disabled people from public transport

Everyone should have access to reliable public transport.

Trade union march and rally in London

Make 1 February a day of rebellion

If you’re in dispute, can you strike? If not, can you protest? Start planning now.

Image of the book cover, China after Mao, along with a poster featuring Mao's head

Understanding China after Mao

Charlie Hore reviews China after Mao, finding a work with large omissions which fails to explain why China has changed so much since the 1970s.

activists mill around barricades and other access-prevention materials, while in the distance there are lines of police, police vans and cranes.

Lützerath: solidarity with climate activists under attack

Climate activists fight to stop the destruction of a German village and the expansion of German coal.

Image shows NEU graphic saying '2 days to post your ballot' in pink and yellow.

School strikes: organise now for the picket lines

Andy Cunningham calls on any NEU members who have not voted to do so now, and discusses the next steps for the strikes.

Trade unions in communities – how change can happen

A new project in Edinburgh is bringing community activists and rank-and-file trade unionists together.

UCU member on picket line

UCU dispute: escalate university strikes to win

rs21 members in UCU say indefinite strike is the most effective way to fight.

Imagery showing characters from Andor

Revolution in a galaxy far, far away

Andy Cunningham is inspired by the latest story from the Star Wars franchise.

collage of images detailed in piece: Granny Made Me an Anarchist, Squid Game, Ballad of a White Cow and Francis Bacon.

2022 cultural highlights

rs21 members round up some of the cultural highlights from 2022.

Three months of rebellion in Iran

After three months of rebellion in Iran, an Iranian socialist asks how it can win.

John

John Molyneux: Marxist in theory and practice

Two tributes to one of the IS tradition’s most important writers.

Trans+ Pride, London, 2020

Edinburgh fights transphobia

Staff, students and socialists stop the screening of a transphobic film at the University of Edinburgh.

Drawing of London slum along with the cover of Tenants by Vicky Spratt

The scale of Britain’s housing crisis

Danny Schultz reviews a recent work exploring the scale of exploitative landlordism in Britain, finding an indictment of British capitalism and an urgent call for renter organising.

Women's strike protest, London, 2019.

Revolutionary Reflections | Sexual violence, feminism and socialist organising

Discussion: how should socialists organise to stop sexual violence in our organisations?

a picture of the White House, with a United States flag flying on top, and red and blue flowers and a fountain below.

Polarization and Paralysis: the U.S. after the midterm elections

Ashley Smith and Charlie Post draw a balance sheet of the midterm elections, and their lessons for the socialist Left in the United States.