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University fees crisis

UCU members explain the challenges of organising in the face of the market-driven crisis affecting education, which affects students and university workers alike. 

Rent hikes won’t fix the housing crisis

The new Labour government has made big announcements on housing policy, but there’s very little there to benefit tenants.

Teacher and support staff pay deals: the questions we need to ask

The questions we need to ask about the teacher and support staff pay deals in England

Rachel Reeves and the ‘maxed out credit card’

Kate Deer takes a critical look at the new government’s claims that Britain has ‘maxed out its credit card’.

Resisting Israeli scholasticide and academic apartheid – interview with Maya Wind

Israel’s genocidal war is massacring Palestinians and destroying their infrastructure, in particular, targeting Palestinian educational institutions

Report from the 2024 UCU Congress

rs21 members in UCU report on the recent Congress of the Further and Higher Education workers union

Cost of greed crisis still hitting Edinburgh

A community worker in Edinburgh surveys the inequality in their city.

Rent caps lifted for Scotland’s private tenants: organising after defeat

What lessons can be learned in Scotland’s tenant movement?

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 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.

teachers with a banner saying 'Pay Up, Save our schools'

Teachers’ union conference battles over pay strikes

Palestine, pay cuts and protest: NEU activists challenge the union’s bureaucracy in the face of another expected real terms pay cut.

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’.

Review | Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis

Housing activist Kate Bradley reviews Nick Bano’s Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis

Building Red Vienna

Danny Bee celebrates Red Vienna, when workers’ land occupations led to a left-wing city council developing a new vision for public housing and working-class communities.

Latest Department of Education advice is a transphobic attack

“Educators must register their disgust at the guidance while it is in the consultation phase.”

Protesters shout and point angrily.

‘Our Bodies, Our Lives’: Hundreds protest against anti-abortion demonstration in London

rs21 member Colin Wilson reports from ‘Our Bodies, Our Lives’,  the counter-protest to this weekend’s anti-abortion march in central London.

Review | Union

Grace Linden reviews a recent production of Max Wilkinson’s play Union, directed by Wiebke Green, at the Arcola Theatre in Hackney. Is it useful to construct narratives from individual moral responsibility when discussing gentrification? We all need a home; we’re all (too) willing to take on the options offered by a system that exploits our […]

School strikes: results and prospects

The tragedy of ending the dispute now is squandering the momentum and resolve we have built.

Base rate rises, housing crises?

‘We need to fight back together and find solidarity across lines that have previously been staged as battle lines.’

School strikes: we must escalate to win

Teachers’ pay – escalate to win in the autumn!

Abortion Rights protest, London 17th June 2023

Review | Bodies Under Siege

Even traditional mainstream conservative parties are linked to proponents of reactionary ‘Great Replacement’ theories.

image of protesting nurses in front of a hospital, beside an image of the book Health Communism.

Review | Health Communism

How has capitalism wrecked health and care? Shiraz Hussain reviews Health Communism.

Reflections on International Workers’ Memorial Day

To mark IWMD, the rs21 Art Group made a zine with Cut-Through Collective, which we distributed in Glasgow and London across the May Day weekend.

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 […]

crowds march in London with a big heart shaped NEU balloon

NEU annual conference

Pay strikes, support staff, Ofsted, and Prevent: rs21 members cover the key debates.

NEU demo

Prepare for more school strikes

We need more than this offer – and a better deal can be won.

Pacer train

Review | Derailed: How to Fix Britain’s Broken Railways

Why is train travel a disaster? How can we fix it?

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.

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. 

NEU members march with banner reading "schools need £2 billion now"

School staff: how we organised to win our dispute

NEU members united the staff group in their school and won a strike ballot