Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century
 
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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.

Labour and the election

Pat Stack looks at Labour, the election campaign and what comes next

birds eye view of a court, John Swinney in center

Where now for the SNP?

Predictions on what Swinney has in store

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.  

A large banner hangs from the side of a university staircase. It is written in Greek. A red flare is lit against the night sky.

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.

Protesters try to de-arrest someone from a police van outside Thales in Glasgow.

The shift in Glasgow and how we fight back

What to make of new violence against the Palestine solidarity movement?

huge crowds gather at night, a line of police in foreground.

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.

A man walks past the occupation wall in Palestine, two birds are in a cage in the foreground.

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.

Tents outside Sheffield uni, police standing in front of the Glasgow Home Office gates, police and protestors at sites in London.

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. 

A man in a wheelchair delivers a speech on stage at a protest. A interpreter stands next to him translating into sign language.

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

Rishi Sunak grinning at a baby, and on right, Sunak at a conservative party conference stage.

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