The long Conservative decline
Labour still has a long way to go to win this election. But the Tory crisis won’t go away either, regardless of who wins on 12 December, argues Duncan Thomas.
Trans Day of Remembrance 2019
20 November is Trans Day of Remembrance. Patricia Lockhart, an activist with Sisters Uncut, reports on developments in Scotland and argues that socialists need to stand against transphobia now more than ever.
Defend workers’ rights – against McCluskey
Unite activist Ian Allinson responds to Len McCluskey’s attempt to undermine the free movement policy agreed at Labour conference.
Bolivia #ThisIsACoup
The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, has been forced from office in a coup following two weeks of civil unrest and a disputed presidential election.
Striking together for Higher Education
The whys, whats and what nexts of the upcoming higher education strikes, which begin on 25 November.
Borders and the climate emergency
Ida Picard analyses the function that borders play in extinction capitalism and argues that we must be uncompromising in calling for all borders to go.
Are we all in it together?
Faced with an impending global catastrophe and possible human extinction, it is easy to see why many people might feel that everyone has a common interest in tackling the climate emergency. This is a serious mistake.
Repression and revolt in Catalonia
The Catalan revolt has revealed the flawed nature of the Spanish 1978 constitutional settlement, writes Paul Amby.
Extinction, climate change and Karl Marx
Marx can help us understand why the choice really is system change or climate change, argues Brendan Montague.
The Politics of Monsters
Caliban’s Revolt celebrates the capacity of the monster to terrorise the powers that be.
Fight for a Labour government
We call for everyone to mobilise energetically against the Conservative Party and for the election of a Corbyn government
Raising the rate of resistance
Educators in the sixth form sector prepare for 3 days of strike action over funding and pay beginning Thursday 17 October.
Solidarity against the Turkish invasion
Turkey’s invasion of north-eastern Syria (Rojava) must be opposed with practical international solidarity, not with calls for the US to continue its War on Terror.
Ecuador: Indigenous peoples fight back
Statement by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) on the revolt triggered by austerity measures demanded by the IMF.
Mariana Mazzucato: Dragons Den or progressive State Capitalism
Mike Haynes looks at the work of prominent left-leaning economist Mariana Mazzucato
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.
Against ‘consumption’
What would a realistic leftist response to the climate crisis look like? Taisie Tsikas argues that we must shift our perspective from consumption to radically reorganising society.
No excuses: defend free movement
Policy passed at Labour Party conference creates an opening for all on the left to argue for open borders, even as the leadership seeks to undermine it, writes Pete Gillard.
When is it illegal to strike?
In the UK, never. But it’s often unlawful. The climate strikes have highlighted the draconian British anti-union legislation and exposed confusion about the law and the consequences of striking unofficially.
The fundamentals of democracy
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the prorogation of Parliament was unlawful. The rs21 Steering Group argue that we need a General Election, but we also need a far more radical democratisation of our society.
Socialism with a bit of greenwash can’t save the planet either
In his polemic, Mike Haynes argues that if socialists of the Global North are to address the climate crisis, they must also adjust their expectations of what a world with prosperity for all will look like.
Mugabe is dead: remember Chiadzwa
Robert Mugabe’s rule was a disaster for Zimbabwe’s poor. The massacre at Chiadzwa deserves to stand as his testament, writes Leo Zeilig.
Double or nothing
Boris Johnson’s manoeuvre to shut down parliament is a step towards establishing a right-wing populist hegemony in Britain
Fight the anti-democratic Tories and their bosses’ Brexit
In the closing weeks before the latest Brexit deadline, Boris Johnson and his Tory Party have suspended parliament in an attempt to enable them to force through a rotten Tory Brexit for which they have no mandate. The rs21 Steering Group argue to build the movement to bring down the government.
The Importance of Colin Barker
Mike Haynes offers a tribute to revolutionary socialist thinker and organiser Colin Barker
‘Dear Sisters of the Earth’: Peterloo bicentenary
Women were a particular target of the violence at Peterloo on 16 August 1819. We publish an extract from an address by the Manchester Female Reform Society delivered shortly before the massacre.
Tensions rise in Hong Kong
Colin Sparks reports on the latest developments in Hong Kong, where the movement on the streets is showing impressive resilience as direct pressure from Beijing builds.
200 years after Peterloo, do we face a new wave of repression?
As we approach the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, Ian Allinson argues that the right are pressing Boris Johnson to introduce a new wave of repression.
Mass mobilisation shakes Hong Kong
Colin Sparks reports from Hong Kong, where strikes and protests are shaking the government.
Waltham Forest Pride: we can’t arrest our way to liberation
Police protection for LGBT people may be a mark of social progress – but liberation does not come from getting the cops on side