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 […]
NEU annual conference
Pay strikes, support staff, Ofsted, and Prevent: rs21 members cover the key debates.
Review | Derailed: How to Fix Britain’s Broken Railways
Why is train travel a disaster? How can we fix it?
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.
School staff: how we organised to win our dispute
NEU members united the staff group in their school and won a strike ballot
50 shades of luminous: the Scottish teachers’ strikes
‘A win for the teachers will act as a beacon and galvanise the wider strike wave.’ Nick Cimini reports on the teachers’ strike in Scotland.
NEU joins the fight: five ways to build the strike
Real world tips on what to do in your school.
Stop the exclusion of disabled people from public transport
Everyone should have access to reliable public transport.
School strikes: organise now for the picket lines
Andy Cunningham calls on any NEU members who have not voted to do so now, and discusses the next steps for the strikes.
The scale of Britain’s housing crisis
Danny Schultz reviews a recent work exploring the scale of exploitative landlordism in Britain, finding an indictment of British capitalism and an urgent call for renter organising.
Tenants’ unions fight back against rocketing rents
rs21 members report on December’s tenants’ union protests against some of the largest estate agents in England.
Landlords need us; we don’t need landlords
Kate Bradley and Charlotte Powell look at what underlies Tory rent reforms, and assess how the housing movement can respond.
Support the UCU strikes!
UCU workers are escalating industrial action in their disputes. Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal explains why this is a vital move and how to support.
Why should socialists think about psychoanalysis?
Following a series of rs21 meetings this autumn, Marianne Kelly considers what we gained from our discussions of therapy, the mental health industry and psychoanalysis as a tool to critique capitalism.
We need coordinated action to save the NHS
Health staff, unions, patients, communities and campaign groups must come together to stop the collapse of the NHS.
Work in schools? Vote yes in the NEU ballot!
Teacher and NEU activist Andy Cunningham argues that it’s time for strike action.
Covid – forgotten (by governments) but not gone
Governments have failed to defend us from Covid, but it remains a key issue.
Renters reform – much more is needed
Government proposals to overhaul private renting – not good enough.
Six things you can do to fight the cost-of-living crisis
The cost of living is going up. Community campaigns and workers are fighting back.
Mad Pride campaigns for psychiatric abolition
Hundreds gathered to oppose abuse of psychiatric patients, celebrate Mad culture, and call for psychiatric abolition.
Support striking care workers!
Health and care workers are striking in Bristol and Blackburn.
NHS in crisis – fightback on pay can help save it
Health campaigner Gill George analyses the crisis facing the NHS – both nationally and in Shropshire, where she lives – and the campaigns to fight back.
The Housing Question today
Gus Woody reflects on the importance of Engels’ pamphlet “The Housing Question” today and how socialists can build on it around housing struggle.
Universities battles ahead – UCU Congress 2022
The University and College Union (UCU), which organises teachers, researchers and some support staff in further and higher education, held its annual congress earlier this month. Two rs21 members who were delegates report on the key debates.
The Silvertown tunnel is a health disaster
On Saturday 11 June, the Stop the Silvertown Tunnel Coalition held a Health Summit for a packed audience in Newham.
The deviant law student
In a piece originally published in Socialist Lawyer, Kate Bradley reviews the Critical Legal Pocketbook, and finds it a useful corrective to capitalist legal education, perfect for socialists who study and work in law. There are many reasons why socialists may be attracted to the legal profession. Though it is an embattled terrain dominated by […]
The GDST pensions strike – a balance sheet
Earlier this year there was a big strike at the Girl’s Day School Trust (GDST) chain of independent schools over attacks on teachers’ pension rights. rs21 and NEU member Luigi Brindisi, one of the strikers, looks at the outcome of the dispute and draws some lessons.
Standing up for education – NEU Conference 2022 report
An unpredictable conference of the National Education Union showed an instinctive aversion to oppression and a desire to take action, but competing visions and priorities about how to deliver it. Conference delegates John Stephens and Andrew Stone report (in a personal capacity).