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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.

Sledgehammer above crushed nut on a flat surface

Against bad arguments for terrible things

A response to John Rees’ attempt to Marxwash anti-trans bigotry

Crowd on Trans liberation protest placard reads biological essentialism ia not the same as feminism

The Supreme Court decision: when law becomes the means of oppression

The Supreme Court decision is a break with precedent and a concession to right wing pressure that harms all women.

Crowd at protest against Supreme Court ruling two Fire Brigades Union flags in foreground, one red, one rainbow

New left party: dead-end or dead right

Any new mass socialist formation must be rooted in class politics which understands its relation to oppression

Red Import Duties stamp superimposed on background of US Stars and Stripes flag

Trump’s tariffs turmoil – an empire in decline

Trump, tariffs and the changing balance of power in the world economy.

Stack of different coloured shipping containers

What is going on with Trump’s tariffs?

Why is Trump imposing tariffs and what does he want to achieve

Autonomist Marxism, disability and precarious work

How does capitalism shape disablement? And how can disabled people most effectively resist their oppression?

black and white photo of a puppet keir starmer with a sign on him saying "I

Labour – war hawks

Trumpeting the military is a distraction from Labour’s policies to deepen oppression and exploitation.

NHS workers on strike in London. Placard with an acrostic poem reads: 'Needed Undervalued Resigning Short-staffed Exhausted Still saving lives!'

How do we democratise and invigorate our unions?

“Every worker should feel empowered with the tools and confidence to organise.”

Drone against sunset sky

The United States U-turns on Ukraine

The long term issues that underlie the shift in US policy on Ukraine

A tent city protest in Minnesota

Why is homelessness spending not working?

Billions are wasted on landlord profits so what can be done different?

Higher education in crisis – what now for UCU?

As massive cuts and redundancies are threatened across the university sector – how can we build the fightback?