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Interview | Building a world of radical abundance

rs21 interviews Keir Milburn on emancipatory eco-social transitions in theory and practice.

Revolutionary red lines

Organising in Your Party requires an abolitionist perspective

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

What do we mean by communism?

Fighting for communism means fighting for an unparalleled increase in human freedom

Communards in Paris in 1871

Breaking the state

We need to smash the state to create a new world of freedom

Fight for a new mass socialist politics

For the assemblies at The World Transformed festival, rs21 argues a way forward for mass ecosocialist and anti-imperialist politics.

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

Trans+ Youth banner leads the huge march

We fight for the oppressed

Why the fight against oppression is at the heart of revolutionary politics

The workers have the power

Workers have the power to bring the capitalist system down

After-party: Your Party Glasgow initial public meeting

How the first Your Party public event in Glasgow came together. A personal reflection on the process and what next.

Reform and revolution

Why reform and revolution are not different routes to the same end

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.

Building from below

Draft perspectives on a framework for the foundation of the new left party

Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn

The rocky road to power: notes on a new left

A new left party is on the cards. What strategy should the left pursue?

rs21 and the new left party

rs21 members discussed the potential new left party at an All Members Assembly

Stretching Marxism

We stretch Marxism not to dilute it but to deepen it.

People hold pink umbrellas reading Stop Arming Israel and a banner reading Politics is Broken.

Political alternatives in an age of catastrophe

What socialist politics do we need in this time of disasters?

“Don’t back down, double down” – Festival of the Oppressed report

Report on rs21’s first Festival of the Oppressed gathering

Woman hods placard that says Can We Breathe Now

Hammer and heart: four theses on abolitionist communism

The connections between abolition, communism and organising for liberation

Review | Red Flags

A new book distinguishes the liberation of October 1917 from state repression under Stalin and Mao.

How do we build revolutionary organisation?

What kind of revolutionary organisation do we need and how can we build it?

The Marxist Unity Caucus Platform

The Platform of rs21’s Marxist Unity Caucus

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.

Demonstrator holds rainbow-coloured placard reading "proud to be on strike for education" in front of NEU Trans and Non-Binary Educators banner

Class and oppression

Some on the left say we should prioritise class struggles over issues of oppression. But fighting oppression is at the heart of socialism.

How should the left organise?

Do socialists spend too much time talking to like-minded people in a lefty bubble?

Crowd at protest against Supreme Court ruling two Fire Brigades Union flags in foreground, one red, one rainbow

New left party: dead-end or dead right

Any new mass socialist formation must be rooted in class politics which understands its relation to oppression

Marxism in struggle and what that means

An exploration of the depth and breadth of Marxism – not just as a theory, but as a living tradition.

Lebanon: imperialist penetration and anti-imperialist contradictions | Part 3

What are the prospects for a nascent left in Lebanon, and how do we strengthen anti-imperialist resistance from Britain?

Syria: history shapes our organising today

How does the overthrow of Assad fit in the wider context of the Middle East, Israeli aggression and inter-imperialist competition?

blocks of flats and street art

Lessons from militant organising in tenants’ unions

Critical reflections on the ACORN model.