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Boris Liar Johnson

An account of Boris’s ungainly exit from British politics.

Revolt and reaction: lessons from the struggles in Sudan, Syria, and Palestine

Revolution and reaction in Sudan, Syria and Palestine.

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What is the potential for rank-and-file organisation today?

There is renewed interest in rank-and-file organisation, but confusion about what this means and what is possible.

El Niño is accelerating climate chaos: it’s time for action

The extreme heat of the upcoming El Niño years should compel us to subordinate profit motives to urgent climate goals.

School strikes update: what we need to do to win

The NEU has called new strikes in England on 5 and 7 July in pursuit of their pay claim. Here’s how we win the dispute.

a large crowd stand outside the court with a banner reading Stop Deportations

The Brook House Three trial: a major victory for anti-deportation activists

Jury sees justice in their activism: Lisa Leak reports on the trial.

Schofield: a homophobic attack, an unequal relationship

The Philip Schofield affair highlights both homophobia and the reality of sexual abuse in certain workplaces.

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.

a collection of people holding placards saying 'I Love my trans grandkids', and other messages of trans support.

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, Glasgow 2023

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.

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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 […]

Cartoon showing King Charles leaning over with his hands in stocks, saying "They assured me this was the only way they could ensure a decent crowd."

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.

Palestinians on a demo in Hebron

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 […]

Struggling for trans rights

Struggling against recent attacks on trans people

hundreds of people wave flags for political parties. banners for parties are in the foreground.

What next after elections in Nigeria?

The new leadership does not herald change. Alex Batubo argues that a stronger workers’ movement is needed.

Image shows five Indonesian protesters holding signs including 'Tolak RKUHP' - "resist the criminal code". It is a mix of men and women and their faces are masked.

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.

3 young people with saltires painted on their faces stand in front of a banner reading Make Trident History.

Scotland after Sturgeon

What are the prospects for Scottish independence now Sturgeon has stepped down?

a large picket with a banner reading 'UCH Nurses say Pay Rise Now'.

Reject the health pay deal!

What’s the deal? Rob M argues NHS workers have to keep fighting to win more.

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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.