Fighting on for higher pay in the NHS
As junior doctors in the BMA prepare for three days of strike action this week, the pay fight isn’t over across the health service.
What next for the Gender Recognition Reform Bill?
Sara Bennett shows the GRR Bill as a pawn for both Tories and Sturgeon.
The Saramago dispute: hospitality organising in Glasgow
An interview with the workers who organised.
Voter suppression and protest repression: the Tories’ attack on democracy
The government is swiftly and systematically destroying the rights on which ordinary people rely: to vote, to protest, to strike.
Behind the Cardiff riot: a community failed by police and politicians
Following the tragic death of two young people in Ely on Monday and the riot that followed, the police’s version of events has unravelled. But, as Ann Marie Zogina reports, the area in west Cardiff has not only been failed by the police, but the politicians who claim to represent it as well. Tragedy has […]
‘The Generals’ fight for power is not our fight’ – interview
Interview with a Sudanese activist about about the escalating armed conflict between rival factions of the ruling junta and its impact on the revolutionary dynamic in Sudan.
Extinction Rebellion at a crossroads
XR changed tactics for the Big One. Gus Woody comments on the protest and next moves.
Sunak suffers, Starmer stalls – the council elections in England
Rachel Iboraii celebrates the Tories’ losses in last week’s council elections in England, and questions why Labour isn’t profiting more from the government’s woes.
Intersectional organising wall-to-wall at Rutgers University
Tempest member Dana Cloud spoke to Rutgers professor and union leader Deepa Kumar about how the unions united faculty and graduate students across academic ranks in a strike that brought the administration to the bargaining table and won major gains. This strike is a signal moment in the USA’s higher education labour movement. This interview first […]
Coronation hypothermia
rs21 member Colin Wilson considers the relative lack of enthusiasm for King Charles III’s Coronation.
South Korea and inter-imperialist rivalries
Interview with a South Korean revolutionary socialist about the international situation in east Asia and the growing tensions between China and the USA.
UCU dispute: members can win the marking and assessment boycott
As the UCU’s marking and assessment boycott gets underway, rs21 members in UCU underline the need for more rank-and-file initiatives and a commitment to genuine member-led democracy in the union. Even before the marking and assessment boycott (MAB) by UCU members in the higher education sector got underway, the union was racking up some successes. […]
Chernobyl 1986 – when nuclear power came of age
A lethal combination of technical arrogance, corporate and state deceit and human fallibility that will forever lie at the heart of nuclear power.
Pogroms and protests in Israel
As attacks on Palestinians increase, we reprint an article by Australian socialist Rick Kuhn that puts the offensive into the wider context of the increasing divisions among Israeli politicians.
Uprising in France: the urgency of coordination from below
As the wave of revolt against pension reform in France continues, Clément Mouhot writes about the latest stage of the movement. On Thursday 13 April, France erupted again with the twelfth “journée d’action” (day of action) in the ongoing movement against President Macron’s pension reforms. All the unions, united in the so-called “intersyndicale”, put out […]
#IrelandForAll and the anti-racist tradition in Ireland
Recent months have witnessed a growth in far-right organising in Ireland, but also the spread of major anti-racist mobilisations in response. Pádraig Mac Oscair examines these developments and puts them in historical context. In recent months, the inner-city Dublin community of East Wall has seen a series of protests against the potential housing of refugees […]
What next after elections in Nigeria?
The new leadership does not herald change. Alex Batubo argues that a stronger workers’ movement is needed.
The state strikes again: the new Indonesian criminal code
Frans Ari Prasetyo explains the new repressive criminal code that has just been passed in Indonesia – and outlines the resistance it faces.
Scotland after Sturgeon
What are the prospects for Scottish independence now Sturgeon has stepped down?
Reject the health pay deal!
What’s the deal? Rob M argues NHS workers have to keep fighting to win more.
People Make Television: cultural production, socialism and the state
Tom Schofield on the People Make Television exhibition at Raven Row, London.
A fuel’s paradise: capitalism, energy crises and the markets
Fossil fuel companies and national governments are driving the climate catastrophe that threatens us all.
Hunt’s budget – comfort for the rich, crumbs for us
Jeremy Hunt claimed he was delivering a budget for growth, but as Jonny Jones explains, for most of us it means worsening living standards.
Right-wing gender politics: regenerated
Lisa Leak outlines the forces arrayed against trans people in Britain now.
Greek train crash sparks protests and general strike
Train crash in Greece sparks protests and strikes, with over 100,000 people on the streets, reports Kleanthis Antoniou.
We need more than crumbs: reject the NEU ‘deal’ in Wales
Schools strikes are suspended in Wales following a new offer from the Welsh government. rs21 members in NEU explain why it’s a bad deal and argue for stepping up rank and file organisation.
Everyone to London on 15 March!
15 March will be the biggest day of action so far in the current strike wave – we urge everyone to join the London protests on that day.
UCU dispute at the crossroads
rs21 members in UCU analyse the current UCU dispute and consider the role of the UCU bureaucracy in recent weeks. In January, the future of the UCU dispute over pay, pensions and conditions was in a precarious situation. A vote by the Higher Education Executive committee (HEC) to call indefinite strike action had been publicly […]