What’s left of Lenin?
150 years after the birth of V.I. Lenin, Leninism offers us urgent and fundamental lessons about what it means to practise politics in capitalist society.
Other people are not the problem
Whilst the government continues to condemn millions by asset stripping the healthcare service and backing landlords and bosses, we must remember that we are all united by their contempt for us.
Review: What’s Wrong With Rights?
Radha D’Souza’s investigation into the international liberal rights regime is a welcome intervention that should make us question the framework of ‘rights’.
revolutionary reflections | Invisible threads: on value and valorization
Charlie Jarsve goes back to the theory of value and exploitation in Marx’s Capital to explore how exploitation relates to different forms of oppression.
No community without politics
The mirage of a “mainstream Jewish community”, often weaponised against the left, hides the fact that “community” itself is always a site of struggle and contestation
Grenfell and the instrumentalisation of suffering
The traumatised Grenfell community is being treated as a security problem
Deliveroo and the anatomy of the ‘gig’ economy
The victory of couriers in the recent Deliveroo strike tells us a lot about organising alongside new technology, both how it can be used to discipline workers, but also how they can resist that supervision. Charlie Jarsve reports: Yesterday the IWGB announced a victory. For six days Torrington Place had been filled with couriers and supporters from […]
On cultural appropriation, from American Spirit to Palmyra
While symbols and their deployment undoubtedly structure our experience, Charlie Jarsve argues that power relations have a materiality that an uncritical understanding of ‘cultural appropriation’ can obscure. I still remember the first time I came across American Spirit tobacco. I was in Berlin roughly two years ago and I saw a Swiss friend rolling a cigarette. Even […]
‘My duty is to save lives’ – rs21 interviews junior doctors on the front line
Both the recent junior doctors’ strike over new contract terms and the student nurses’ protest against the withdrawal of bursaries have been widely covered. Charlie Jarsve spoke to two junior doctors about why they are taking action, support from the public, and the future of the NHS.