Review | Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
Housing activist Kate Bradley reviews Nick Bano’s Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
Base rate rises, housing crises?
‘We need to fight back together and find solidarity across lines that have previously been staged as battle lines.’
Voter suppression and protest repression: the Tories’ attack on democracy
The government is swiftly and systematically destroying the rights on which ordinary people rely: to vote, to protest, to strike.
Care workers clap back: strikes, unions and the exodus from care
A care worker activist explains the issues they face and calls for solidarity
Review | Shake the City – Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis
Kate Bradley reviews Shake the City by Alexander Billet, a well-written and thought-provoking book on the role of music in making political change.
Thousands join as Don’t Pay campaign gathers steam
Over a hundred thousand people have pledged not to pay.
Six things you can do to fight the cost-of-living crisis
The cost of living is going up. Community campaigns and workers are fighting back.
The deviant law student
In a piece originally published in Socialist Lawyer, Kate Bradley reviews the Critical Legal Pocketbook, and finds it a useful corrective to capitalist legal education, perfect for socialists who study and work in law. There are many reasons why socialists may be attracted to the legal profession. Though it is an embattled terrain dominated by […]
The double shift: talking childcare and gender in the pandemic
As many nations re-enter lockdown, Kate Bradley interviews two rs21 members on their experiences with childcare, work and gender during Covid lockdowns.
Capitalism, debt and feminism
Kate Bradley reviews A Feminist Reading of Debt, finding an insightful account of the relationship between debt, gender, and capitalism, as well as examples of how to fight back against debt.
Palestine campaigning escalates in Greater Manchester
Kate Bradley reports on recent Palestine campaigning in Greater Manchester, where campaigners defeated the University of Manchester over censorship and occupied the Elbit arms factory in Oldham.
Amending the Police Bill won’t be enough
Kate Bradley summarises the scrutiny report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill, considering how this might impact this new repressive legislation.
Review | Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
Kate Bradley reviews a highly readable intervention into recent debates amongst feminists
Combatting unsafe workplaces: an interview with Janet Newsham
Every workplace is a Covid frontline, as employers try to force workers into unsafe situations. We interviewed Janet Newsham of the Hazards Campaign, which is fighting back.
The power of tenants’ organising
There is a renewed surge of tenants’ organising, but opinions are split on the best way to build power. What kind of organisation can hit back against landlords?
Coronavirus credit crunch: fighting the debt disaster
Through rent arrears, payday loans, mortgages and more, personal debt is a key element of neoliberal policy. How can we fight back and break the spiral?
Review: Radical Happiness
Lynne Segal’s most recent work, Radical Happiness, addresses the relationship between political action and personal fulfilment.
Review: Epstein: Filthy rich
Kate Bradley reviews a documentary series focusing on giving a voice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein.
Social reproduction in crisis
The coronavirus crisis brings into sharp light capital’s reliance on social reproductive labour, Kate Bradley argues.
Guns, gangs and imperialism
Guy Ritichie’s film The Gentlemen is a violent fantasy about ongoing Anglo-American global dominance, writes Kate Bradley.
Report: Jeremy Corbyn in the O2 Apollo, Manchester
Kate Bradley reports on Jeremy Corbyn’s Manchester rally.
Ken Loach, sex work and paternalism
Ken Loach is widely acclaimed for his uncompromising and cutting portrayal of the realities of poverty in his films, but Kate Bradley argues his depictions of sex work fall short.
What a way to make a living | Introduction
Meet our new article series, What a way to make a living, which will explore the lived realities of work and exploitation under modern capitalism
Review: Urban Warfare
Kate Bradley reviews Urban Warfare by Raquel Rolnik, an important investigation into how capitalism has shaped housing for its own ends
A gamer’s guide to social reproduction
Video games can be vehicles for a whole range of political ideas – and some can even help us explain social reproduction theory, argues Kate Bradley.
Goodbye and good riddance to Gavin Williamson
It’s worth re-visiting some of Gavin Williamson’s most unpleasant politics, just so we can briefly celebrate his political demise.
Review: Contralto
Kate Bradley reviews Contralto, a one-hour work for video, strings, and percussion that features a cast of transgender women
Resistance not resilience: ruling class and radical approaches to mental health
While employers want healthy workers, they are not prepared to look at the deeper causes of mental distress.
Always anti-fascist, always anti-sexist
Kate Bradley considers the misogyny at the heart of fascism, and asks how we can better challenge it.