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Solidarity with the hunger strikes

Political prisoners on hunger strike are challenging the counter-terror laws and the criminalisation of Palestinian solidarity inside Britain’s prisons

A photo of a white paper-mache key, symbol of the return of Palestinian exiles & refugees, held aloft by two people attending The World Transformed 2025 opening march. The activists are wearing two different coloured keffiyehs, and are surrounded by others wielding Palestine flags.

Interview | Palestinian Youth Movement

An interview with the British chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement at TWT 2025

Portrait of Njuki Githethwa with clenched fist raised in blue jacket white tee-shirt and

Interview | Kenya Left Alliance

An interview with the Kenya Left Alliance on building left unity in Kenya

Venezuela: between crisis and invasion

An in depth analysis of the crisis in Venezuela as US aggression steps up

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Review | Overreach: how China derailed its peaceful rise

Overreach is written from within the US establishment and provides insight into why the US sees China as a mortal enemy

Election poster on a lampost in a Dublin street

Catherine Connolly wins: an historic victory for the left in Ireland

Revolutionaries can build on Catherine Connolly’s landslide win in the Irish presidential election

Photograph of a crowd of people, at the front is a red and white sign reading in block capitals 'STOP GENOCIDE'

How Italian dockers disrupted the Israeli war machine

In September, Italian dockers refused to work on ships in the Israeli supply lines

The Gaza ceasefire

Solidarity with the people of Palestine

Mass protests after flotilla interception

Report about the protests showing solidarity after the Israeli military intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla

Crowds gather in the concourse of Edinburgh's Waverley station

Solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla

rs21 stands in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla

How do Marxists think like internationalists

Thinking like an internationalist

DK Renton explains why it’s vital to reject nationalism and stand with anti-imperialist struggles

Interview | Behind the Zohran Mamdani campaign

Interview with NYC-DSA organisers about the campaign behind Zohran Mamdani’s

Nepal protests have deeper roots

Protests in Nepal against against a government social media ban grew into an uprising.

Block everything: the struggle in France

The Bloquons tout movement in France has brought students, workers and activists together in blockades and strikes

Gaza: the shifting ground of empire and resistance

As Israel escalates its project, the cracks appearing within Western support reveal both the brutality of the moment and the urgency of resistance

The battle behind Unite’s belated action on Palestine

Unite members, including many employed in arms factories, have successfully challenged their leadership’s refusal to support action against Britain’s supply of arms to Israel.

Zohran Mamdani speaks into a mike at a rally.

The Mamdani moment: new hopes and new hazards for the New York left

Mamdani’s campaign is boosted by struggles such as Palestine, and based on sound goals. But a strategy of reforming the Democrats can only fail.

Workers for a Free Palestine: organising against the genocide 

Worker outreach is an essential part of anti-militarist strategy, confronting Zionism and rebuilding the left

Poster - We are All Foreign Scum

‘We Are All Foreign Scum’

Internationalism and anti-imperialism link 1960s protests against the Vietnam War and those in solidarity with Palestine today.

We are all Palestine Action

rs21’s statement on the proposed proscription of Palestine Action.

UVF mural in Belfast

From Ballymena to Coolock – anti-immigrant protests in Ireland

Racism has always been part of unionism – now racist protests are gaining a foothold in the South.

Review | Lifeline to Freedom

Leftist Czech refugees to Britain in the 1930s had to cope with hostility from the British government, but also the zigzags of the Communist line laid down in Moscow.

Israel’s new barbarity

The background to Israel’s new attacks on Iran

Protests by university students in front of Beyazıt Square in Istanbul

A letter from Istanbul: Reflections on the recent protests

Protests against the increasingly repressive Turkish government have now continued for months.

Large fire burning on the street

The battle of Los Angeles: the first weekend

American socialists report from the streets of California.

Crowd on protest applauding

Inside Die Linke 

We talked to activists from Germany’s left Die Linke party about its recent success and issues as they move forwards.

Staff and aides defend parliament against troops during the attempted coup

South Korea: a right-wing coup defeated, but deeper issues unresolved

South Korea goes to the polls in ten days.

Nakba 77 demonstrations

A report with photographs from rs21 members on yesterday’s Nakba 77 demonstrations.

Nine year old Phan Thị Kim Phúc, her back severely burned by napalm, runs down a road near Trảng Bàng, 8 June 1972. Photo – Nick Ut, public domain

Long read | Vietnam, 1968 and what lies ahead of us

The Vietnam War ended fifty years ago. The struggle against the war changed the world and still echoes today.

Chinese imperialism: no better than the US?

China’s huge international investments are about imperialist power, not helping the Global South develop or opening up space for progressive movements.