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Imperialism and international politics

Echoes of 1905

An Imperialist nation is defeated at sea by a smaller power. Are talking about 2026, or 1905?

people playing football on sandy ground, with car tires as goal posts. a young man ist jumping towards the ball.

Solidarity through football

What’s next for football after the FIFA farce?

Infantino and Trump holding a football and smiling

Whose World Cup?

The tournament’s rot is capitalism’s, but the game belongs to us

Protestors confront an ICE officer who is getting out of a car. They carry ICE OUT signs.

The state of the resistance in Trump’s America 

The resistance has emerged from the streets, not the Democrats 

An edited image of a protestor at the UK embassy in Lisbon. They hold a sign saying 'Free the Filton24'. It has been edited to look red with black shadows.

Banned but not beaten: Palestine Action and the state’s total lawfare

DK Renton covers the Court of Appeals upholding of the Palestine Action ban, the past struggles, and the next steps.

A photo showing a white van and activists blocking an entrance to a factory. They carry a banner saying shut elbit down.

Re-igniting direct action for Palestine

rs21 interviews Arms Embargo From Below, which aims to rebuild a disruptive, anti-imperialist movement

Photograph of José Maria de Almeida, a middle aged man, with tan skin and male pattern baldness. He wears a blue shirt with a white t shirt underneath. He holds a microphone and has his right hand raised, gesticulating as he talks. The background is a mixture of pink and blue lights.

The price of saying ‘Free Palestine’: Zé Maria and international repression

Florence Open and Martin Ralph write on the incarceration of the Brazilian trade unionist, and how to show solidarity.

Motor Tanker (M/T) Wila, a merchant vessel in international waters en-route to the UAE port of Khor Fakkan, in the Gulf of Oman, was boarded by armed Iranian personnel who fast roped aboard the ship from an Iranian Sea King helicopter as it hovered above. Coalition Task Force Sentinel, the operational arm of the International Maritime Security Construct, is a multinational maritime effort which promotes maritime stability and safe passage, enhancing freedom of navigation throughout key waterways in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Southern Red Sea.

China and the Iran war – a provisional assessment

China is weathering the war and turning crisis into influence

A collage in black and white illustrating and symbolsing the war against Iran. Trump is in the front, his gaze to the side, looking on the strait for hormuz, which is filled with war ships and a big iranian flag.

Iran, the ‘ceasefire’, and the crisis of American hegemony

Force alone does not make an empire

Palestine protestors with flags face a police line in front of them.

Guilty of organising: the crackdown on mass protest in Britain

The convictions of Nineham and Jamal are proof the state wants this movement to end – which is exactly why we can’t stop now.

Prime Minister Modi next to an Indian flag.

The BJP’s war on trans rights

India’s latest assault on trans rights is the logical product of a state that needs the gender binary to reproduce itself.

An image of a group of campaigners of "Hackney Votes Palestine" taking a group photo. Many of them are wearing Palestine-related clothes and holding flags of banners. They look happy and are smiling. It's sunny and there's trees in the background.

Hackney Votes Palestine? Insights from a grassroots electoral campaign

Local election victories are worth pursuing as a means of building the organisations and protected ground necessary for mass working-class reorganisation

Video | The POUM: republic, revolution and counterrevolution

The role of the POUM in the Spanish Civil War

An image of a road in Khartoum, Sudan. Several cars are going in both directions and an airplane is taking off, facing the direction of the camera. There are LG and other advertisements on the sides and graffitis on the walls.

Food, land, water: Africa and emerging Gulf sub-imperialisms

Gulf involvement in Africa reproduces the worst aspects of parasitic and decaying capitalism

No war with Iran – the main enemy is at home

rs21 statement on the attacks on Iran.

Israel: the making of a racist state – new edition

The preface to the new edition of Israel: the making of a racist state

Venezuela: imperialism, post Chavismo, and resistance from below (part 2)

The second part of a two part article looks at the opportunities for resistance and the regional implications of Trump’s attack.

Venezuela: imperialism, post Chavismo, and resistance from below (part 1)

Part 1 of a two part analysis of Trump’s attack on Venezuela and the possibilities for resistance.

Destination Defence

Destination Defence is a new government attempt to intensify the militarisation of British society.

Venezuela after 3 January

What does the future hold for Venezuela after the kidnapping on Maduro?

Imperial machinations, oil and the rebirth of the Monroe Doctrine

Venezuela reveals a struggle for US control over the western hemisphere’s resources

South Africa’s hydrogen extractive frontier: climate action or recolonisation?

A critical examination of the development of green hydrogen manufacture in South Africa

Prisoners for Palestine logo

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

Cover of the book

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