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Imperialism and international politics

Statement on Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Iran

On the Zionist attacks, and a call to renew our work against imperialism in Britain.

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

Settler colonialism and socialist politics – a contribution to the debate

David Camfield, a socialist active in the Canadian state, responds to the debate on this website about settler-colonialism. 

Escalations in Palestine

Daire Ní Chnáimh collates developments in Palestinian resistance and their interlocked escalations.

Bangladesh: student protests continue

Protestors in Bangladesh are continuing to organise despite the government, led by Sheikh Hasina, backing down on the reinstatement of job quotas that reserved places for relatives of war veterans.

The Zapatistas – the first revolutionaries of the new age

 Mike Gonzalez looks at how events in Chiapas have unfolded since 1994 and assesses the latest developments as Mexico elects a woman president for the first time.

Report | Workers in Palestine day school

rs21 members report on a successful day school for Palestine solidarity activists

Cyprus: 50 years of partition

Andrew Stone looks back on the military coup that divided Cyprus in 1974 and reflects on developments over the subsequent fifty years

The French far right pushed back – for now

Ian Birchall assesses the results of the second round of France’s parliamentary elections, celebrating a defeat for the far right and assessing the problems and opportunities ahead.

The Popular Front then and now – France and the elections

Ian Birchall looks back at the history of the original Popular Front and outlines what’s at stake in France’s general election.

Setback for Modi in India’s elections

Narendra Modi’s right-wing government suffered a severe setback in the recent elections in India. Tanroop Sandhu looks at the reasons for this reverse, in an edited version of a talk delivered to East London rs21.

Debate on settler colonialism: Part 4

Steve Leigh contributes with a review of Englert’s book.

Green imperialism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Imperial powers control and profit from the DRC’s minerals. Ben Radley explains the history and calls for protest.

Palestine and the Arab Revolution: rising in solidarity

Revolutionaries from the Middle East and North Africa discuss Palestinian liberation’s and links to global freedom.

South Africa: the beginning of the end of the ANC

For the first time in South Africa’s 30 years of democracy, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to obtain a majority of votes, making a coalition imminent.

Making Gaza the issue in the general election

Jonny Jones argues for making Gaza a central issue in the general election as part of starting to build a serious opposition to Starmer’s Labour.

Kanak Protests for Independence in New Caledonia

Writing from Paris, Colin Falconer explains the background to the recent uprising in Kanaky/New Caledonia, and argues that the protesters are right to resist French imperialism.

Stealth – the new nuclear threat

Brian Parkin explains how, 38 years since the Greenham Common peace camps, American nuclear weapons are scheduled to return to Britain by stealth, in the shape of the nuclear-certified F35A strike fighter aircraft.

A large banner hangs from the side of a university staircase. It is written in Greek. A red flare is lit against the night sky.

Comrades face deportation after Palestine camp in Athens

Greece pursues deportations processes against 9 EU citizens for participation in a Palestine encampment.

Sudanese dialogue and political processes at a time of war: people, participation, and power

Nada Wanni warns against letting elites keep control.

Protesters try to de-arrest someone from a police van outside Thales in Glasgow.

The shift in Glasgow and how we fight back

What to make of new violence against the Palestine solidarity movement?

huge crowds gather at night, a line of police in foreground.

Repressing independence: the Spanish Amnesty Bill and Catalonia

Is the Amnesty Bill a weapon in disguise?

A man walks past the occupation wall in Palestine, two birds are in a cage in the foreground.

Debate – a response on settler colonialism

If we are to overthrow capitalism, we need to engage with what stabilises it. 

Report from the Newcastle University encampment

As the number of Palestine solidarity encampments at campuses continues to grow rs21 spoke to Brian Underhill from the encampment at Newcastle University.

Tents outside Sheffield uni, police standing in front of the Glasgow Home Office gates, police and protestors at sites in London.

Long hot summer?

London, Glasgow, Manchester – a brief flash of activity or the start of a long hot summer?

From protest to resistance

As student camps in support of Gaza and divestment from Israel continue to spring up on campuses, Tempest Collective member Joe Allen explains the impact they are having on American politics. 

Remembering the Portuguese Revolution

Marxist historian Raquel Varela remembers the Portuguese revolution of April 25 1974 and its aftermath

Activists holding a large banner that reads ‘sponsored by BP’ form a blockade outside the front gates of the British Museum.

Interview with Energy Embargo for Palestine

rs21 interviews the activist group Energy Embargo for Palestine

The DRC bleeds because of the world’s greed

Report from a Stand with Congo demonstration in Central London on 6 April where at least a hundred protestors gathered to highlight the situation in the eastern Congo

protestors in London with banners and placards, saying stop guns.

Militarism and anti-militarism

In the midst of an arms industry boom, we need to link anti-imperialism to anti-militarism.