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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?

huge crowds gather at night, a line of police in foreground.

Repressing independence: the Spanish Amnesty Bill and Catalonia

Is the Amnesty Bill a weapon in disguise?

Why cutting welfare hurts non-claimants

The Tories are proposing yet more attacks on welfare benefits, and on sick and disabled people – and Labour’s obsession with ‘hard working families’ plays up to their divisive rhetoric. Ian Allininson argues that cuts to welfare are intended to lower wages.

A man walks past the occupation wall in Palestine, two birds are in a cage in the foreground.

Debate – a response on settler colonialism

If we are to overthrow capitalism, we need to engage with what stabilises it. 

Dover’s dodgy defector

Keir Starmer’s acceptance of hard-right Natalie Elphicke into the Labour party has shocked and dismayed many. East Kent resident Danny Bee explains why he’s not happy at having her as his Labour MP.

Kick out the Tories, prepare to fight Starmer

Colin Wilson analyses the 2 May council and mayoral elections in England.

From protest to resistance

As student camps in support of Gaza and divestment from Israel continue to spring up on campuses, Tempest Collective member Joe Allen explains the impact they are having on American politics. 

A man in a wheelchair delivers a speech on stage at a protest. A interpreter stands next to him translating into sign language.

Resist Sunak’s demonisation of disabled people

An analysis of how new governmental measures continue to demonise and punish disabled people.

How should socialists think about political tradition?

“Our task isn’t to guard a faith, a static tradition.”

Rishi Sunak grinning at a baby, and on right, Sunak at a conservative party conference stage.

The Tories’ pro-natalism agenda

Colin Wilson unpacks the right-wing agendas behind the new Tory childcare policy.

Activists holding a large banner that reads ‘sponsored by BP’ form a blockade outside the front gates of the British Museum.

Interview with Energy Embargo for Palestine

rs21 interviews the activist group Energy Embargo for Palestine

Cass Review: dangerous and transphobic

Lisa Leak and Colin Wilson explain why we should reject Cass and renew the fight for trans liberation.

Interview | Empire of Normality

Hazel Croft talks to author Robert Chapman about their new book and discusses neurodiversity and how we can challenge the capitalist logics of ‘normality’.

protestors in London with banners and placards, saying stop guns.

Militarism and anti-militarism

In the midst of an arms industry boom, we need to link anti-imperialism to anti-militarism.

Police in green uniform and helmets and holding batons run down a road in Senegal. They are turning back to look at the protestors behind them.

Resisting state brutality in Senegal

History of the political crisis in Senegal in light of the current elections.

A woman holds her arms up in the air at a protest, while smoke rises in the background.

Haiti: “The truth speaks for itself”

As violence escalates in Haiti, we republish this statement by Robert Roth which identifies US and UN intervention as the source of the crisis.

The Socialist Alliance, George Galloway and Respect: left electoralism the last time around

After George Galloway’s Rochdale victory, David Renton reflects on past left electoral vehicles, and why democracy and accountability are essential.

Whither Poland

Dan Davison analyses the new Polish government, the Polish left, and the rise of the far right.

Here We Go! Forty years on from the outbreak of the Great Strike

Forty years ago today British miners began industrial action in what became the longest and most bitter strike of the twentieth century. Here Brian Parkin, a former Research Officer for the National Union of Mineworkers, gives a brief introduction to this pivotal strike.

Rochdale by-election highlights Labour’s bankruptcy on Gaza

Rochdale – a significant victory, but not the left alternative we need.

From Ukraine to Gaza: imperialism, resistance and solidarity

Two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine we need international solidarity in building resistance to imperialism and militarism.

photo of a mine

Extraction of raw materials could rise 60% by 2060 – and making mining ‘greener’ won’t stop the damage

Gareth Dale debunks the notion that mass extraction of minerals is necessary for an ecologically sustainable society.

The Post Office scandal is typical of today’s Britain

“The light in this darkness is that people are standing up and demanding justice.”

The Tory meltdown continues

Rachel Iboraii celebrates the Tories’ latest by-election losses and looks at what this tells us about the prospects for the upcomin general election.

Do workers in the Global North benefit from the exploitation of workers in the South?

Charlie Post argues that imperialism has intensified exploitation across the entire global working class

Who should be UCU’s next general secretary?

rs21 members in UCU discuss the candidates and offer their voting recommendations.

Yemen: ‘It’s not working: we’re going to keep doing it’

Jamie Allinson points out the contradictions of US and British policy towards Yemen.