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Review | Disability Praxis

Disability Praxis covers some of today’s key debates on disability justice in Britain and the US. rs21 member Shiraz Hussain reviews.

Grangemouth – the fight for jobs and climate justice

INEOS’s plans to close Scotland’s only petrol refinery at Grangemouth represent a critical test for both unions and climate campaigners.

Four theses on fascism, pogroms and liberation

Reflections on fascism, crisis and class politics, as the left responds to far-right mobilisations.

How Chinese and African organisers came together to protest an oil pipeline

Report on Chinese diaspora communities resisting EACOP.

Red Bird #4 | Responding to Repression

The crackdown against ecological organising continues

Protests and police repression in Nigeria

Reports from Kano and Abuja: the End Hunger protests, mass arrests and police brutality.

Review | Who’s Afraid of Gender?

Around the world, the right are mobilising around “gender”. Colin Wilson reviews Judith Butler’s new intervention.

After the 7th August – building networks across the country

TK Adisa argues that we should celebrate 7 August but build and strengthen networks of resistance

Imperialism and British workers: moving past the labour aristocracy debates

Our history is shaped by the legacy of empire.  Alfie Hancox takes a critical look at debates on Labour and Imperialism

After the horror, the hope

Author and activist Dave Renton reviews a week in which mass anti-racist and anti-fascist protests started to push back 

‘In Our Millions’: the policing of Palestine protests since October 7th 

The movement for Palestine must also be a movement against police.

The storm and the street – racist riots and how to fight back

rs21 statement on the far right protests and how to fight back

Rachel Reeves and the ‘maxed out credit card’

Kate Deer takes a critical look at the new government’s claims that Britain has ‘maxed out its credit card’.

Video | Fantasies of the new far right

Richard Seymour on the global far right, disaster nationalism, and fascist fantasies.

Southport murders and fascism

A local perspective on events in Southport and the need for clarity about the threat of fascism.

Red Bird #3 | What we learned in France

Takeaways from the Soulèvements de la Terre mobilisation in France.

Statement on Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Iran

On the Zionist attacks, and a call to renew our work against imperialism in Britain.

Resisting Israeli scholasticide and academic apartheid – interview with Maya Wind

Israel’s genocidal war is massacring Palestinians and destroying their infrastructure, in particular, targeting Palestinian educational institutions

Settler colonialism and socialist politics – a contribution to the debate

David Camfield, a socialist active in the Canadian state, responds to the debate on this website about settler-colonialism. 

Escalations in Palestine

Daire Ní Chnáimh collates developments in Palestinian resistance and their interlocked escalations.

Bangladesh: student protests continue

Protestors in Bangladesh are continuing to organise despite the government, led by Sheikh Hasina, backing down on the reinstatement of job quotas that reserved places for relatives of war veterans.

Red Bird #2 | Gaza and ecological action

Investigating the crossover between the climate and Palestine movements, from common tactics to strategic dilemmas.

The Zapatistas – the first revolutionaries of the new age

 Mike Gonzalez looks at how events in Chiapas have unfolded since 1994 and assesses the latest developments as Mexico elects a woman president for the first time.

Review | What Was Neoliberalism?

What can we learn about neoliberalism from Neil Davidson’s new book? Charlie Post reviews ‘What Was Neoliberalism’

Report | Workers in Palestine day school

rs21 members report on a successful day school for Palestine solidarity activists

Cyprus: 50 years of partition

Andrew Stone looks back on the military coup that divided Cyprus in 1974 and reflects on developments over the subsequent fifty years

Sussex Academy Trust faces strike from angry workforce – UBAT strike report

Lou Hayton reports from one of the picket lines where Sussex NEU members are fighting back against the University of Brighton Academies Trust

The French far right pushed back – for now

Ian Birchall assesses the results of the second round of France’s parliamentary elections, celebrating a defeat for the far right and assessing the problems and opportunities ahead.

Red Bird #1 | What is Red Bird?

The Red Bird Collective introduces their new ecological movement bulletin – a project aiming to increase discussion amongst the ecological left.

Jane McAlevey 1964-2024

Ian Allinson pays tribute to and assesses the work of Jane McAlevey, the US-based organiser and author who popularised many organising concepts and techniques, and who inspired and trained thousands of activists