Save Our Surgeries: how communities and GPs are fighting NHS cuts in east London
An in-depth report by Daniel Smith on the Save Our Surgeries campaign in London’s East End – and its implications for the wider battle to reverse a decade of privatisation in the NHS. Up to a thousand people joined protests in east London earlier this month against the threat of GP practice closures. The rallies […]
Care, Compassion and Cuts in the NHS
The decimation of the NHS means more than just fewer resources – it damages patient care in a host of other ways. Naomi C reflects on the role of compassion in healthcare, and how it is sometimes found lacking. I read In the Midst of Life quite a few years ago; it’s by Jennifer Worth who wrote the Call the […]
Big business and the NHS: Awkward bedfellows
Gill George discusses how drug company greed means the government has wasted millions on stockpiling medicine that doesn’t work Private companies exist to make a profit for their shareholders. The NHS exists to keep people healthy and look after us when we’re sick. When the two get entangled, the NHS tends to lose out. The […]
200 strong angry NHS meeting in South East London
Ian Crosson reports on the campaign to Save Lewisham Hospital.
Interview | Black Lives Matter UK
BLM UK’s approach to electoral politics, anti-racist and anti-racist organising and the struggle for a free Palestine
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.
Responding to the racist moral panic
The nature of the threats from racism and fascism has changed in the last few years. Strategies to oppose them need to change too
A chance to defeat Starmer’s most important union backer
The UNISON General Secretary election is a key battle for the whole of the left
London Trans+ Pride – a historic and radical protest
Over 100,000 took part in an angry demo with none of the corporate floats and respectability politics that have dominated queer mobilisations.
How do we build revolutionary organisation?
What kind of revolutionary organisation do we need and how can we build it?
Labour and immigration
Keir Starmer’s Labour seems inspired by Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech
Fighting for trans people at work and in unions – and winning
How Unite and trans union members fought back against transphobia in a Scottish aerospace factory.
Labour’s immigration White Paper: a brief explainer
Here is what the Immigration White Paper means policy-wise
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.
Huge protests condemn Supreme Court attack on trans people
Protests have shown huge support for trans people this weekend – we can fight and we can win!
Supreme Court attacks trans people – the fight for liberation goes on
The Supreme Court ruling is part of a global transphobic offensive – but trans people will carry on fighting. Watch out for protests and join them!
The Green Paper: a final rollout of the workfare state
A detailed analysis of the green paper which is all about workfare not welfare.
How do we democratise and invigorate our unions?
“Every worker should feel empowered with the tools and confidence to organise.”
Why is homelessness spending not working?
Billions are wasted on landlord profits so what can be done different?
Left wing pitfalls: against neoliberal identity politics and class reductionism
Coalitions of the oppressed show the power of solidarity, but ruling classes use race and nationalism to divide workers. Shanice McBean explores how the left can overcome these divisions.
Review | Disaster Nationalism
Richard Seymour’s recent book Disaster Nationalism can help us understand what’s happening as Trump’s second term accelerates the growth of the far right internationally.
The right to be an addict
Addiction isn’t the problem—criminalisation is. To end the crisis, we must abolish prisons, policing, and the system that fuels suffering.
The reactionary evil of Trump’s oligarch courtiers
Resisting the ambitions of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel requires more than critique—it demands direct confrontation
What trade unionism? A transport strike case study
A case study of a dispute which illustrates the impact of different models of trade unionism and some of the challenges facing workplace activists.
Trans youth fight back: an interview with Trans Kids Deserve Better
The NHS, the Department of Education, and youth organising for trans liberation.
On Gaza and the struggle to restrain Trump
rs21 member David Renton uses the idea of ‘permanent revolution’ to understand the prospect of global counter-revolution we face today.