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Trump’s second term: fascism in the US?

Continuing the discussion of what we can expect from Trump’s second term, highlighting the risks and the opportunities for resistance.

Video | Trump, the US elections, fascism

Will Trump rule as a fascist? A video discussion of the outcomes of the US election.

Syria: history shapes our organising today

How does the overthrow of Assad fit in the wider context of the Middle East, Israeli aggression and inter-imperialist competition, and how do we centre the Syrian fight for popular freedom in our practical solidarity in Britain?

Building Fortress Britain: Labour’s policies on immigration 

Labour intensifies deportations, workplace raids and migrant exploitation.

A tractor and a sign saying 'food needs a farmer'

A rural revolt? On recent farmer mobilisations in Britain

The underlying context of the farmers’ protests

Palestine activists face the British state of terror

The British state’s anti-terror powers target pro-Palestine activists unjustly

blocks of flats and street art

Lessons from militant organising in tenants’ unions

Critical reflections on the ACORN model.

On Gaza and the struggle to restrain Trump

rs21 member David Renton uses the idea of ‘permanent revolution’ to understand the prospect of global counter-revolution we face today.

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When the circus leaves town

A revolutionary Marxist organisation in the US considers a Left re-orientation and response to the dismal US electoral situation.

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Labour’s budget – no end to increasing inequality

Social services gutted, green transition neglected, public money funnelled to private business.

Chris Kaba verdict shows the police have a licence to kill

The police defend capitalism and we need to fight with a revolutionary response

One year on from the Al Aqsa Flood

A report on Glasgow’s commemorations of October 7th: the year of genocide must also be recognised as a year of resistance.

University fees crisis

UCU members explain the challenges of organising in the face of the market-driven crisis affecting education, which affects students and university workers alike. 

Palestine solidarity and overdetermination

Analysing the endurance of Israel’s barbarisms and its interdependence with US imperialism

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Stand with Lebanon

What’s the role of the Palestine solidarity movement in the face of Israel’s escalations?

Glasgow against fascism: a report on 7th September and thoughts on next steps

Tactical considerations for the antifascist movement in Glasgow.

Working class unity means anti-racist unity: no compromise with racist state power

rs21 members make the case for an anti-racist politics that combats all forms of oppression and exploitation

Rent hikes won’t fix the housing crisis

The new Labour government has made big announcements on housing policy, but there’s very little there to benefit tenants.

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

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

Statement on Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Iran

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

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. 

Green class struggle: workers and the just transition

Climate politics is not the playground of distant elites, but a field where collective action is decisive.

The Popular Front then and now – France and the elections

Ian Birchall looks back at the history of the original Popular Front and outlines what’s at stake in France’s general election.

Green imperialism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Imperial powers control and profit from the DRC’s minerals. Ben Radley explains the history and calls for protest.

Palestine and the Arab Revolution: rising in solidarity

Revolutionaries from the Middle East and North Africa discuss Palestinian liberation’s and links to global freedom.

South Africa: the beginning of the end of the ANC

For the first time in South Africa’s 30 years of democracy, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to obtain a majority of votes, making a coalition imminent.

Rent caps lifted for Scotland’s private tenants: organising after defeat

What lessons can be learned in Scotland’s tenant movement?

birds eye view of a court, John Swinney in center

Where now for the SNP?

Predictions on what Swinney has in store

Sudanese dialogue and political processes at a time of war: people, participation, and power

Nada Wanni warns against letting elites keep control.

Protesters try to de-arrest someone from a police van outside Thales in Glasgow.

The shift in Glasgow and how we fight back

What to make of new violence against the Palestine solidarity movement?