Safe passage now – the border is the crisis
As around a hundred migrants have crossed the Channel in recent weeks, the Government and the Border Force are trying to prevent a new route into the UK at all costs.
Immigration White Paper: We treat #PatientsNotPassports
The government published its delayed Immigration White Paper yesterday. Here a doctor tells us about the damage current immigration policies is already causing patients.
Stansted 15 respond to guilty verdict
‘Out of control’ Home Office should have been in the dock, not us: Stansted 15 respond to guilty verdict.
What migrants in the caravan want the world to hear
Migrants from Central America fleeing violence and poverty — for which the U.S. government bears overwhelming responsibility — have been journeying north in several caravans for weeks, with many hoping to apply for asylum to live in the U.S.
Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin’s race problem
David Renton reviews the latest opportunistic attempt to make sense of the resurgence of reactionary politics in the West.
The Left and a People’s Vote
While the march was mainly organised and led by the neoliberal ‘centre’, there were also socialists on the march. Unite activist Ian Allinson discusses how the left should respond.
Report on A Day Without Men 2018
A Day Without Men featured sessions on fascism and sexual violence, migration and the care industry, and workplace organising.
Calais stories
Mitch Mitchell is a regular visitor to Calais a part of his work with Refugee Lifeboat.
‘Legitimate Concerns’: the Language of Division
How does the language of “legitimate concerns” play into racist narratives? Hanna Gal argues against making any concessions to the discourse of the right.
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.
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 […]
Life at the frontier: Samos in 2018
A report from the Greek island of Samos, home to many refugees seeking to enter Europe.
Race, Gender and Social Reproduction in British Capitalism 1945-78
How can we understand the ways that capitalism comes to be gendered and racialised?
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 […]
Marooned at Moria: Europe’s suppressed migration crisis
A report from the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Rock Against Racism: an interview with Ruth Gregory
Ruth Gregory, one of the organisers of the 100,000-strong Rock Against Racism carnival of 1978, talks to rs21 about anti-racist organising from then to now.
Antisemitism, then and now: Part 2 of 2
In part two of an extended interview with rs21, David Rosenberg of the Jewish Socialist Group explores the far-right links of the modern Tory Party, and sets out how socialists can combat antisemitism
Rock Against Racism: forty years on
The 1978 Rock Against Racism carnival rallied 100,000 young people against the advancing far right. What were they fighting – and why was this particular fightback so very powerful?
Antisemitism, then and now | Part 1 of 2
David Rosenberg, of the Jewish Socialists’ Group, delves into the facts and the historical background of current discussions of antisemitism in Labour
“No human is illegal”: NHS staff speak out on Windrush
The Windrush scandal was the inevitable result of the “hostile environment”- we need to push back and support the rights of all migrants
Rocking Against Racism and other irrational ideologies
The first Rock Against Racism carnival took place forty years ago, on April 30 1978.
Windrush and the politics of unconditional solidarity
Outrage over the treatment of the Windrush generation is welcome – but we must also reject the narrative of “good” and “bad” migrants
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
Refugees – remember them?
Mitch Mitchell writes on Refugee Lifeboat, a new organisation that aims to marry humanitarian aid for refugees with an uncompromising political stand against state racism
Stop detention without trial! Stop deportations!
Anti-terror laws are being used against the #Stansted15, a group of activists who blocked a charter flight carrying deported migrants out of the country.
These Walls Must Fall: solidarity with Yarl’s Wood detainees
A photo report from the Yarl’s Wood hunger strike solidarity demonstration in Manchester, 8 March 2018
Capitalism’s life source: the domestic and social basis for exploitation
US-based socialist Tithi Bhattacharya responds to questions from rs21 on her new book about social reproduction theory.
Social Reproduction Theory: going beyond Marx’s Capital
Colin Barker of Manchester rs21 spoke on ‘Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression’ at the recent Historical Materialism conference in London.
Interview: Annie Cohen, Union of Jewish Students presidential candidate
Annie Cohen has been called the ‘anti-Zionist candidate’ for leadership of the Union of Jewish Students (UJS). rs21 interviewed her about why she’s standing. Annie Cohen, tell us a bit about why you decided to stand for UJS President. I’m very involved in Jewish left wing activism with Jewdas*, which has grown incredibly over the […]
Review: The Kaiser’s Holocaust
Mark Winter reviews David Olusoga and Casper W. Erichsen 2010 book The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, writer and broadcaster who has championed the unearthing of black history in series such as the BBC’s “Black and British: a Forgotten History”. “My family’s history is part of a long, […]