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Your Party and the limits of online voting 

E-democracy undermines the participatory and meaningful forms we need in Your Party.

Royal Courts of Justice building

In defence of jury trials

Labour’s proposal to end most jury trials is a reactionary step that must be fought

Interview | Conditions from Barlinnie prison

We conducted this interview with former HMP Barlinnie inmate Calum

Review | Emergency Exits exhibition 

The Imperial War Museum’s ‘Emergency Exits’ explores Britain’s violent retreat from empire and the brutality of colonial rule

Prisoners for Palestine logo

Solidarity with the hunger strikes

Political prisoners on hunger strike are challenging the counter-terror laws and the criminalisation of Palestinian solidarity inside Britain’s prisons

Election poster on a lampost in a Dublin street

Catherine Connolly wins: an historic victory for the left in Ireland

Revolutionaries can build on Catherine Connolly’s landslide win in the Irish presidential election

Britain’s vanishing nightlife

What the loss of night clubs mean, for community, for queer freedom and for the right to collective joy

What do we mean by communism?

Fighting for communism means fighting for an unparalleled increase in human freedom

Communards in Paris in 1871

Breaking the state

We need to smash the state to create a new world of freedom

Fight for a new mass socialist politics

For the assemblies at The World Transformed festival, rs21 argues a way forward for mass ecosocialist and anti-imperialist politics.

Labour’s hollow response to antisemitic violence

The government’s response to the antisemitic attack in Crumpsall reveals a cynical conflation of Jewish identity with Zionism

Living rent rally outside the Scottish parliament

A party built by collective action

A perspective on the new left party from activists in Scotland

Review | The Starmer symptom

Pat Stack reviews Mark Perryman’s essay collection on Starmer’s betrayals and Labour’s deepening crisis

Interview | Race and Class in Crisis

Continuing the discussion on race and class in Britain today

Your Party: Don’t fuck this up

rs21 steering group argues that the stakes are too high for Your Party to fail. Everyone who wants to see it succeed needs to act now

The workers have the power

Workers have the power to bring the capitalist system down

Your Party needs to bury Labourism

The new left party may be breaking with Labour, but it must also break from Labourism

A chance to defeat Starmer’s most important union backer

The UNISON General Secretary election is a key battle for the whole of the left

Why anti-border politics is class struggle

Opposition to borders is central to class struggle and anti-capitalist politics

Is this the end of Labour in Wales?

What are the forces behind Labour’s decline in Wales and how can new movements might shape it?

Building from below

Draft perspectives on a framework for the foundation of the new left party

Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn

The rocky road to power: notes on a new left

A new left party is on the cards. What strategy should the left pursue?

Woman hods placard that says Can We Breathe Now

Hammer and heart: four theses on abolitionist communism

The connections between abolition, communism and organising for liberation

Authoritarianism with a dash of identity politics: the crime and policing bill

If passed the Crime and Policing Bill will limit human rights and the right to privacy from the state

We are all Palestine Action

rs21’s statement on the proposed proscription of Palestine Action.

How do we build revolutionary organisation?

What kind of revolutionary organisation do we need and how can we build it?

Reflections on organising in the retail sector

A look back at a 2022 dispute involving USDAW staff who were members of the GMB union

Keir Starmer unveiled a new Immigration White Paper

Labour’s immigration White Paper: a brief explainer 

Here is what the Immigration White Paper means policy-wise

Struggle and Strategy in the Platform Economy

As workers in the platform economy fight back how can sporadic, dispersed strikes be turned into a sustainable movement?

Demonstrator holds rainbow-coloured placard reading "proud to be on strike for education" in front of NEU Trans and Non-Binary Educators banner

Class and oppression

Some on the left say we should prioritise class struggles over issues of oppression. But fighting oppression is at the heart of socialism.