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Red Bird #6 | Just Stop Standing There?

Why intentionally get arrested when by not getting caught you can take action repeatedly and retain your freedom?

Red Bird #5 | ‘Worker Liaison’ Roles

Allan, an activist and trade unionist with experience integrating workplace organising with protest actions, writes with suggestions of how to approach worker engagement in activity.

Red Bird #4 | Responding to Repression

The crackdown against ecological organising continues

Red Bird #3 | What we learned in France

Takeaways from the Soulèvements de la Terre mobilisation in France.

Red Bird #2 | Gaza and ecological action

Investigating the crossover between the climate and Palestine movements, from common tactics to strategic dilemmas.

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.

Red Bird #1 | What is Red Bird?

The Red Bird Collective introduces their new ecological movement bulletin – a project aiming to increase discussion amongst the ecological left.

Cost of greed crisis still hitting Edinburgh

A community worker in Edinburgh surveys the inequality in their city.

Rent caps lifted for Scotland’s private tenants: organising after defeat

What lessons can be learned in Scotland’s tenant movement?

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.

Palestine solidarity in greater Manchester

John Nicholson of Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine reports on the breadth and diversity of Palestine solidarity activity across the region since October.

Revolutionary Reflections | The Battle of Cable Street

Anti-fascists of all stripes can learn from the success story of 1930s East London organising.

The Neil Davidson Lecture 2023: Uneven and combined development in Neil Davidson’s work

Raquel Valera on Neil Davidson’s contribution to the theory of uneven and combined development and revolution.

“Intersect the climate struggle with class struggle” | Interviews with Fuel Poverty Action

Daire Ní Chnáimh interviews two activists from Fuel Poverty Action to discuss the future of the energy justice movement.

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Labor’s Upsurge and the Search for Workers’ Power

Five hundred thousand workers were on strike in the USA at some point in 2023. Kim Moody explores how the strikes have helped to build power and what to expect in the year to come.

How can workers stop the genocide?

An rs21 arms worker on how the Palestine solidarity movement could stop the flow of weapons to Israel.

Strikers at the UAW picket line

Let them eat steak: voices from a UAW picket line

Dana Cloud reports from a United Auto Workers picket line at a G.M. parts distribution center in Rancho Cucamonga, CA.

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Interview | Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History

Matthew Cookson interviews the authors of a new graphic novel on the Haitian Revolution.

Syria – ‘The people want the fall of the regime!’

Large demonstrations have been taking place across Syria in recent weeks. While their scale has yet to reach the peaks seen in 2011, many are hopeful that the government will be brought down. We republish an interview with an Australian based Syrian leftist.

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Climate Camp Scotland 2023

INEOS got the climate camp treatment. rs21 climate activists report.

Raiding our pensions?

A new threat to our pensions – Kate Deer explains why we should be up in arms about Jeremy Hunt’s Mansion House speech.

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Revolutionary Reads – What books got us through 2021?

We asked rs21 members what they’ve been reading in 2021, whether new works of revolutionary theory, fiction, or old classics. These were some of the examples our members had. James B – Psychoanalysis and Revolution (2021) Pyschoanalysis and Revolution argues for the relevancy of psychoanalysis as a tool for those of us involved in liberatory […]

Obituary: Danny Phillips

Remembering Danny Phillips, a lifelong socialist and fighter for the working class.

Subdued anger as hundreds gather at Mark Duggan vigil

Around 1,000 gathered today outside Tottenham police station in north London at 2pm for a vigil to remember Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by police on 4 August 2011. 

“Mark Duggan was executed. We still believe that.”

A wave of shock and fury swept across the country today as news broke that Mark Duggan’s inquest jury had delivered a verdict of “lawful killing”.

Lawyers walk out in protest at legal aid cuts

Solicitors and barristers withdrew from courts today across Britain in protest against proposed changes to criminal legal aid.

Egyptian socialists sentenced to two years in jail

Two leading activists with the Revolutionary Socialists in Alexandria, Egypt have been sentenced for defying anti-protest laws.

Crisis – which crisis?

Terry Wrigley argues that socialist thinking has become dogmatic and not dialectical on four key issues: precariousness, the trade union bureaucracy, electoral alliances and anti-fascism.

Hero to zero

Jamie W and Sølvi G reflect on how they and others responded to the sudden proliferation of awareness about, and anger towards, zero-hour contracts, seeking to inform the way we operate and organise in the future.