Stand with the people of Sudan!
‘We ask the working class worldwide to stand in solidarity with the people of Sudan.’
Review | China in One Village
Charlie Hore reviews China in One Village by Liang Hong, finding an informative and personal account of the contradictions of rapid urbanisation and societal change in China. Liang Hong, China in One Village, translated by Emily Goedde, (London: Verso, 2021) 316 pp, £16.99 China’s meteoric rise to becoming the world’s economic powerhouse was powered by […]
Palestine campaigning escalates in Greater Manchester
Kate Bradley reports on recent Palestine campaigning in Greater Manchester, where campaigners defeated the University of Manchester over censorship and occupied the Elbit arms factory in Oldham.
Lessons from the IPCC report for socialists
Gus Woody looks at the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and discusses just how thoroughly it vindicates the basic principles revolutionary socialists have been arguing for years.
Afghanistan: the end of the occupation
The fall of Kabul marks a decisive defeat for American power around the world.
Germany’s Namibia Genocide Apology: the limits of decolonising the past
What are possible international ramifications of the Namibian-German agreement?
Review | Migration Beyond Capitalism
Baindu Kallon reviews Hannah Cross’ new book Migration Beyond Capitalism. Kallon celebrates a book that brings a new left-wing response to the narrative around migration. Cross, Kallon argues, effectively demonstrates why an internationalist working-class response is the key to defeating neoliberal power and creating a new world. This review was originally published by the Review of […]
The Paris Commune: Rent Strike!
rs21 members present three new translations from Le Cri du peuple (The Cry of the People), the leading newspaper of the Paris Commune.
The Nakba never ended. Victory to the Intifada
For 73 years Palestinians have not only mourned the Nakba but refused to accept its continuation.
Palestine: never give up the struggle
What is happening to the Palestinians right now is not new, not some anomaly, not some break with the past.
Turning a profit from death: Modi’s pandemic response in neoliberal India
The recent upsurge of Covid across India has laid bare the Indian state’s utter failure to protect its population.
Colombia: ‘the hegemony of the right is cracking up’
The mass movement has forced the withdrawal of President Iván Duque’s tax reform proposal and has shed light on a much broader situation of discontent.
Review | Fight the Fire
Jonathan Neale’s new book calls for a global mass movement to confront the capitalist forces driving climate breakdown, linking analysis with real world action and what must be done to fight climate disaster.
Syria, Palestine, Solidarity
Palestinian liberation is intimately tied to the liberation struggles of the entire region. Shireen Akram-Boshar argues that Palestine’s dynamic interdependence with the revolutionary struggle against Assad in Syria has important lessons.
‘It is always the tyrant that should be brought to trial’: repression and resistance in Hong Kong
Charlie Hore considers the onslaught of attacks on democracy in Hong Kong, and reflects on what the Kill the Bill movement can learn from Hong Kong’s pro-democracy resistance.
‘We shall not be governed’ – Revolution and counter-revolution in Myanmar
With workers and students in the anti-coup movement fighting in the face of murderous repression by the military, revolutionary struggle in Myanmar is at a critical point.
What’s behind the riots in the North of Ireland?
The riots in the North of Ireland must be understood in the context of continued sectarian division and state repression.
Interview | Sanctions and ‘shock doctrine’ in Venezuela
In Venezuela, US sanctions are worsening a parlous economic situation and exacerbating a social crisis. What’s the way forward?
Review | Sinews of War and Trade
Mykola Macke reviews an important book which bring together the history of development in the region with the parallel evolution of world shipping routes as the life-blood of world capitalism.
1871: the Commune and the Kabylia
Rosa Moussaoui recalls the uprising that swept colonised Algeria at the same moment that a Universal Republic was proclaimed in Paris
Civil partnerships and reproductive rights in Eastern Europe: an interview with Laima Vaige
rs21’s Leslie Cunningham interviews Dr. Laima Vaige, a feminist and LGBTQ activist from Lithuania, on same-sex partnerships in Lithuania, abortion rights in Poland, and LGBTQ people’s experiences across Europe during the Covid crisis.
The Paris Commune: Order Reigns in Paris
A new translation of an article from Le Cri du peuple, the leading newspaper of the Paris Commune
‘That’s the power of direct action’: an interview with Palestine Action
On Feb 1 2021, Palestine Action and XR North shut down the Elbit Systems factory in Oldham. rs21 spoke with Huda and Richard from Palestine Action about Elbit, Palestine and direct action tactics.
Revolutionary Reflections | Anti-extractivism and radical politics in Ecuador
Melissa Moreano Venegas looks at the forthcoming presidential election in Ecuador through the lens of Thea Riofrancos’ recent analysis of extractivism and its opponents.
India: mass movement of farmers fights corporate power-grab
Two million farmers are camped outside New Delhi, facing down the far-right government’s bid to grab further land for big agribusiness.
Hong Kong’s mass arrests are an assault on grassroots advocacy
In Hong Kong, a further crackdown targets labour organisers and migrant rights activists alongside the traditional pro-democracy camp.
India’s farmers’ protests: the British left must show solidarity
Protests by farmers against neoliberal land-grab reforms are the latest outbreak of dissent against Modi’s fascist government.
Bolsonaro stumbles in Brazilian mid-term elections
A year of community organising against the pandemic propelled Brazilian socialist activists to several major breakthroughs in last month’s elections.
France’s authoritarian turn: Islamophobia and the security state
Macron has backtracked after hundreds of thousands of people protested against the Comprehensive Security Law that would ban filming police officers.
Unemployment and class power: the example of Portugal
Worker organising in Britain will have to change to take account of rising mass unemployment. We can learn from how workers in Southern Europe faced the wave of austerity after the last economic crisis.