Palestine and the Arab Revolution: rising in solidarity
Revolutionaries from the Middle East and North Africa discuss Palestinian liberation’s and links to global freedom.
South Africa: the beginning of the end of the ANC
For the first time in South Africa’s 30 years of democracy, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to obtain a majority of votes, making a coalition imminent.
Making Gaza the issue in the general election
Jonny Jones argues for making Gaza a central issue in the general election as part of starting to build a serious opposition to Starmer’s Labour.
Report from the 2024 UCU Congress
rs21 members in UCU report on the recent Congress of the Further and Higher Education workers union
Cost of greed crisis still hitting Edinburgh
A community worker in Edinburgh surveys the inequality in their city.
Ecological politics and revolutionary strategy
Harry H reflects on ecological politics and revolutionary strategy in a Nakba day talk at the Warwick encampment
Rent caps lifted for Scotland’s private tenants: organising after defeat
What lessons can be learned in Scotland’s tenant movement?
Kanak Protests for Independence in New Caledonia
Writing from Paris, Colin Falconer explains the background to the recent uprising in Kanaky/New Caledonia, and argues that the protesters are right to resist French imperialism.
Stealth – the new nuclear threat
Brian Parkin explains how, 38 years since the Greenham Common peace camps, American nuclear weapons are scheduled to return to Britain by stealth, in the shape of the nuclear-certified F35A strike fighter aircraft.
This Town | Review
The recent BBC drama This Town was widely applauded by reviewers, but Pat Stack found its portrayal of Irish republicanism too inaccurate, distorted and biased to swallow.
Comrades face deportation after Palestine camp in Athens
Greece pursues deportations processes against 9 EU citizens for participation in a Palestine encampment.
The SWP apology is too little, too late
The rs21 steering group argues that the SWP’s apology for the way it handled its 2013 crisis is inadequate
Sudanese dialogue and political processes at a time of war: people, participation, and power
Nada Wanni warns against letting elites keep control.
The shift in Glasgow and how we fight back
What to make of new violence against the Palestine solidarity movement?
Repressing independence: the Spanish Amnesty Bill and Catalonia
Is the Amnesty Bill a weapon in disguise?
Why cutting welfare hurts non-claimants
The Tories are proposing yet more attacks on welfare benefits, and on sick and disabled people – and Labour’s obsession with ‘hard working families’ plays up to their divisive rhetoric. Ian Allininson argues that cuts to welfare are intended to lower wages.
Debate – a response on settler colonialism
If we are to overthrow capitalism, we need to engage with what stabilises it.
Dover’s dodgy defector
Keir Starmer’s acceptance of hard-right Natalie Elphicke into the Labour party has shocked and dismayed many. East Kent resident Danny Bee explains why he’s not happy at having her as his Labour MP.
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