Syria and US intervention
Listen to Omar Sabbour on the real nature of the US intervention in Syria and the implications for anti-imperialists and the left.
Repeal: A fight against misogyny and the legacy of imperialism
The British ‘resolution’ to conflict in Ireland was to entrench the power of the reactionary sectarian forces in Irish politics.
Russia: antifascists face torture and state repression
Russian antifascists have endured abduction and torture by state security agencies, as authorities use forced confessions to smear the left
Palestinian ‘violence’ is not the problem
Palestinians are within their rights to engage in either armed or unarmed responses to settler-colonial oppression.
Nicaragua: the epilogue
The violent suppression of anti-austerity protests in Nicaragua marks another nadir in the long decline of Sandinismo
Syria is not exceptional: interview with Joseph Daher | Part 2
In part 2 of a new interview with rs21, Syrian-Swiss socialist Joseph Daher looks at the relationship between the Kurdish PYD and Arab Syrian movements
Accuser of capitalism: speech from the dock
A hundred years ago today, John Maclean, hero of “Red Clydeside”, assailed the imperialist slaughter of World War One as he stood trial for sedition
Syria is not exceptional: interview with Joseph Daher | Part 1
Syrian socialist author Joseph Daher discusses the nature of the Assad regime and the social basis of the uprising against it which began in 2011
Western bombs won’t ease Syrian suffering
The latest Western bombings of Syria will do nothing to improve the lot of civilians struggling for survival
“Marielle’s death was not just more of the same”
The assassination of Marielle Franco marks a new phase in Brazil’s political repression of the left.
Justice for the eight comrades
Chinese leftists are facing state repression for standing with the country’s working class.
Don’t let Israel hide Ahed’s trial
Israel’s apartheid regime is trying to hide its mistreatment of Ahed Tamimi, the teenage Palestinian political prisoner.
Queer emancipation in early Soviet Russia
A long letter from a gay man highlights the emancipation which touched LGBT people across Russia after October 1917.
After the elections, what next for Catalonia?
Andy Durgan outlines the political landscape following Catalonia’s recent elections.
There’s nothing so weird as a revolution
Ian Birchall reviews China Miéville’s October, a new history of the Russian Revolution. It seems an odd pairing: the Russian Revolution and China Miéville, whose reputation is based on fantasy fiction which he himself describes as “weird”. But one only needs to read a few pages to realise that this is not a forced marriage […]
Winter is Coming – on the situation in China
As China’s economic, political and geo-strategic role increases, Charlie Hore assesses the position of China today and outlines a number of key challenges that face the leadership Introduction In October, the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ended with ‘paramount leader’ Xi Jinping becoming seemingly more powerful than any Chinese leader since […]
The nuclear crisis and North Korea
Owen Miller offers a historical and geopolitical analysis of the situation on the Korean peninsula So far 2017 has been one of the most dangerous periods in northeast Asia since the end of the Korean War in 1953. While there have been a number of acute crises on the Korean peninsula since 2010, including a ‘war panic’ in 2013, this is the most […]
Notes on the occupation, part IV
Neil Rogall reports from Bethlehem and Hebron, where Israeli occupation continues to make life all but unliveable for the Palestinian population.
Notes on the occupation, part III
Neil Rogall reports in his third update from the occupied West Bank.
Notes from Israeli occupied Jerusalem
Neil Rogall is in Palestine as part of a visit organised by Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association (CADFA). Here, in the second of his dispatches for rs21.org.uk, he describes his experiences visiting Jerusalem.
Report from Palestine: witnessing Israel’s brutality
Neil Rogall is in Palestine as part of a visit organised by Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association (CADFA). Here he describes his experiences in the first few days.
Video: Can Catalonia Survive?
On 16 November rs21 hosted in London a discussion of the movement for Catalan independence.
Mugabe’s fall creates a chance for real change in Zimbabwe
We should celebrate the fall of Robert Mugabe. But hypocritical governments like Britain’s that are now attacking him supported him for years, writes Leo Zeilig. Real democracy has to be rooted in popular struggles inside Zimbabwe – and such movements have a powerful history. A moment came on Saturday 18 November which thousands of Zimbabweans […]
How memories of Soviet repression turn Eastern Europe against the left
Hanna Gal offers some personal thoughts on anti-communist political culture in Eastern Europe and how to bridge the divide between Eastern European workers and Western Marxists.
‘But we will stand upright’ – migrant hunger strike in Athens
Migrants awaiting reunification with their families in accordance with EU law have been on hunger strike in Greece and Germany for several days. Ida-Sofie Picard and Will Searby report from Athens. The hunger strike in Syntagma square has been ongoing for eight days now. In Lesvos migrants have been on hunger strike for 15 days. […]
Catalonia: crisis puts the working class centre-stage
Seb Cooke argues that the level of ongoing mass struggle will determine the result of the current stand-off in Catalonia. ‘It was the red vision of the revolution, which, inevitably, would one day carry them all away, on some bloody evening at the century’s approaching end.’ This is how Emile Zola describes a march of […]
Review: ‘The Impossible Revolution’ in Syria
Lebanese writer Joey Ayoub reviews Yassin Al-Haj Saleh’s The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy. Barely a year after the start of the Syrian revolution, in May of 2012, the intellectual and dissident Yassin Al-Haj Saleh was hiding somewhere in Damascus and writing an essay entitled ‘the rise of militant nihilism’. He had […]
Scottish solidarity with Catalunya
Pete Cannell of International Socialists Scotland (Scotland rs21) reports back from recent solidarity protests with Calatunya.
Spanish state out to smash Catalan independence referendum
Andy Durgan writes from Catalonia On 1 October the people of Catalonia go to the polls to decide if their country will become an independent republic or not. The Spanish government insists that the referendum is illegal and have unleashed a wave of repression unprecedented since the end of Franco’s dictatorship 40 years ago, meaning […]
Why socialists should oppose the single market
There has been much talk of a post-Brexit “transition period” , that prioritises the UK staying in the single market. Seb Cooke puts the view that this could both strengthen capital and weaken the left. The argument surrounding the so-called Brexit “divorce bill” may seem fairly inconsequential, but it does tell us something about the […]