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The image is taken by an audience member of the Your Party Sctoland founding conference in Dundee. Audience memebrs are sitting on chairs in severeal rows, looking at the panel in front. Your Party merch banners fill the stage.

After the resignations: How Your Party lost Scotland

Many members have been ejected due to dual membership, and others have left in anger and dismay

A collage in black and white illustrating and symbolsing the war against Iran. Trump is in the front, his gaze to the side, looking on the strait for hormuz, which is filled with war ships and a big iranian flag.

Iran, the ‘ceasefire’, and the crisis of American hegemony

Force alone does not make an empire

Palestine protestors with flags face a police line in front of them.

Guilty of organising: the crackdown on mass protest in Britain

The convictions of Nineham and Jamal are proof the state wants this movement to end – which is exactly why we can’t stop now.

A photo from a Die Linke party congress. One party member smiles and holds a sign saying "For everyone. Die Linke" in German.

The charms and pitfalls of extreme pluralism – Lessons from Die Linke

Die Linke’s party congresses pass resolutions that half the organisation simply ignores.

green pharmaceutical heroin bottle by Bayer.

Push that green: Labour’s by-election fearmongering

Against government efforts to demonise drug users, we need an approach built around universal compassion and decriminalisation.

American Flag

Not a rupture, but the next step: fascism is here

With the intensification of ultranationalism, racism, and authoritarian state practice, has a novel form of fascism has emerged?

Minneapolis: Resistance surges amid crackdown

Joe Allen examines the violence in Minneapolis and the burgeoning to resistance to it

Destination Defence

Destination Defence is a new government attempt to intensify the militarisation of British society.

ICE: Very American violence

The fatal killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent forces a reckoning with state violence

Venezuela after 3 January

What does the future hold for Venezuela after the kidnapping on Maduro?

Imperial machinations, oil and the rebirth of the Monroe Doctrine

Venezuela reveals a struggle for US control over the western hemisphere’s resources

Image of UKIP British flags at UKIP march Knightsbridge, west London 25th October 2025. Courtesy of Steve Eason

Fighting the far right: against the ideology of nationhood

A critical examination of how the concept of ‘the nation’ helps to advance reactionary agendas

Colonial roots of Manchester’s homelessness

What are the root causes of homelessness for many people in Manchester

Digital collage featuring a computer monitor with circuit board patterns on the screen. A Navajo woman is seated on the edge of the screen, appearing to stitch or fix the digital landscape with their hands. Blue digital cables extend from the monitor, keyboard, and floor, connecting the image elements.

Who designs the future?

As AI reshapes labour, designers confront a struggle over their creativity and the future of their work

Andrea Again together with two striking workers on a picket - standing in front of of a sign saying Wirral Evolutions. All there have clenched fists.

Left win in UNISON

The election of Andrea Egan as UNISON General Secretary has implications for the whole movement

What’s happening at the BBC?

The latest scandal at the BBC is just part of a much longer trend of concessions to the political right

Your Party must trust its members

A reflection on the Your Party conference and the future for the new party

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