Always anti-fascist, always anti-sexist
Kate Bradley considers the misogyny at the heart of fascism, and asks how we can better challenge it.
Greece and the politics of natural disasters
The government has persistently allowed private interests in construction, industry and tourism to be prioritised over serious ecological and safety concerns.
ANTARSYA: statement on the wildfires in Attica, Greece
ANTARSYA call for resources to be directed towards defence against fires and flooding, and away from debt repayments and military spending.
Review: Ukraine and the Empire of Capital
Nick Evans finds much of interest in Yuliya Yurchenko’s analysis of Ukraine’s recent history.
Welcome to The Jungle
Colin Revolting and his son were moved to tears by the new play The Jungle, currently showing at the Playhouse Theatre in London’s West End.
Far right humiliated in Cambridge
A far right demonstration in support of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (alias Tommy Robinson) in Cambridge only drew 17 people, while several hundred anti-fascists gathered to oppose them. Photos and report by Steve Eason (with additional reporting by Nick Evans). Hundreds of anti-racists, including fire fighters, transport workers and local Cambridge activists successfully prevented a sad gathering of […]
Mobilise for trans equality now
A planned reform that simplifies how trans people gain recognition of their gender has sparked a wave of attacks on trans people, and not only from the right.
Get The State Out Of My Bedroom
Are civil partnerships a new freedom, or do they simply show us how far there still is to go for real liberation?
Labour is letting down sex workers
The narrow space left in UK law for sex workers to operate in is under threat of being further restricted.
Oppose state racism and the far right
We need to fight racism from the state and on the street, as well as the ruling class tactics and policies that stoke it. The demonstrations against Trump’s visit and against the far right mobilisation in support of the jailed ex-EDL leader are both crucial. You can download the rs21 leaflet that will be handed […]
Experimenting on our kids: academisation and its discontents
Staff are taking strike action against the academisation of their school in Greenwich. Their next strike days are on Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 July, when GMB staff will be joining their striking NEU colleagues. Below is a video of a speech given by Howard Stevenson at a previous strike rally. Introduced by Andy Stone, Joint Secretary, Wandsworth […]
Life at the frontier: Samos in 2018
A report from the Greek island of Samos, home to many refugees seeking to enter Europe.
Corbyn, McDonnell and the lion that struggles to roar
The ‘Financing Investment’ report sets out elements of Labour’s new economic thinking. But how radical is it?
Race, Gender and Social Reproduction in British Capitalism 1945-78
How can we understand the ways that capitalism comes to be gendered and racialised?
Review: A Party with Socialists in It
Simon Hannah’s book about the history of the Labour left can help us think through what strategies the left should adopt
A Marxist theory of music: it’s all in the groove
Kate Bradley interview Mark Abel, author of Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time
After 9 June: on labelling fascists
Defeating racism will take more than an anti-fascist strategy, but we should clearly identify the fascist core of the new right wing street movement, argues Caliban’s Revenge. On 9 June 2018, central London saw the largest demonstration organised by the far right for many years. Perhaps more than 15,000 assembled to protest “against extremism” and “to […]
‘I Am My Own Guardian’ – State repression of Saudi activists
Recent arrests of Women’s Rights activists in Saudi Arabia are part of a cynical attempt by the State to monopolise the notion of reform and crush dissent.
Review: The Young Karl Marx
How far is it possible for a film to bring to life the ideas, energy and humanity of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels? Mark Winter enjoys Raoul Peck’s new film. Raoul Peck, the director, studied Marx for four years as a student of economics, and says that the purpose of the film is as follows: “How do […]
Leaders, leaders, leaders and leaders
Unite the Union activist Ian Allinson discusses the different connotations of the word ‘leader’.
Three days that shook the UCU leadership
Rank-and-file university workers are pushing UCU’s leadership in a bid for democracy, accountability and a fighting union
Photo report: opposing the DFLA in Manchester
Photos and reflections from Saturday’s rally of opposition to the racist Democratic Football Lads Alliance in Manchester
One year on: Manchester and English nationalism
Since last year’s bombing, Manchester’s tradition of radical politics has come to the fore again
The death of irony at UCU congress
At the heart of the fight is the question of who controls the union: the officials or the membership?
50 years from May ‘68, students in France are mobilising again
France is again in the midst of a wave of intense social action, with universities disrupted for months and mass arrests in Mayday protests.
Marooned at Moria: Europe’s suppressed migration crisis
A report from the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Syria and US intervention
Listen to Omar Sabbour on the real nature of the US intervention in Syria and the implications for anti-imperialists and the left.
‘It was like a rocket: a fantastic display’: Reflections on May ’68
In a speech to Manchester rs21, Colin Barker reflects on the “madness of May ‘68”, when, for a brief moment, everything seemed possible.
Repeal: A fight against misogyny and the legacy of imperialism
The British ‘resolution’ to conflict in Ireland was to entrench the power of the reactionary sectarian forces in Irish politics.