Why is the NEU recommending a bad deal?
rs21 teachers explain what has happened in the NEU and what we can do about it.
Palestine solidarity, the anti-BDS bill and the security state
Legal attacks on Palestine solidarity are part of a wider clampdown on protests and strikes.
What is the potential for rank-and-file organisation today?
There is renewed interest in rank-and-file organisation, but confusion about what this means and what is possible.
School strikes update: what we need to do to win
The NEU has called new strikes in England on 5 and 7 July in pursuit of their pay claim. Here’s how we win the dispute.
Review | Bodies Under Siege
Even traditional mainstream conservative parties are linked to proponents of reactionary ‘Great Replacement’ theories.
Schofield: a homophobic attack, an unequal relationship
The Philip Schofield affair highlights both homophobia and the reality of sexual abuse in certain workplaces.
Fighting on for higher pay in the NHS
As junior doctors in the BMA prepare for three days of strike action this week, the pay fight isn’t over across the health service.
Review | Health Communism
How has capitalism wrecked health and care? Shiraz Hussain reviews Health Communism.
Voter suppression and protest repression: the Tories’ attack on democracy
The government is swiftly and systematically destroying the rights on which ordinary people rely: to vote, to protest, to strike.
Review | Marx in the Anthropocene
The joys and pitfalls of degrowth communism – Gus Woody reviews an important new book on ecosocialism.
Nakba 75: solidarity and resistance until Palestine is free
John Nicholson reports on the Nakba 75 demonstration and march on 14 May 2023 in Manchester, providing some background on why the day is so important to mark.
Reflections on International Workers’ Memorial Day
To mark IWMD, the rs21 Art Group made a zine with Cut-Through Collective, which we distributed in Glasgow and London across the May Day weekend.
Extinction Rebellion at a crossroads
XR changed tactics for the Big One. Gus Woody comments on the protest and next moves.
Sunak suffers, Starmer stalls – the council elections in England
Rachel Iboraii celebrates the Tories’ losses in last week’s council elections in England, and questions why Labour isn’t profiting more from the government’s woes.
NEU annual conference
Pay strikes, support staff, Ofsted, and Prevent: rs21 members cover the key debates.
Abolition Revolution: a vital step into the future
We need to get rid of police and prisons entirely.
Reject the health pay deal!
What’s the deal? Rob M argues NHS workers have to keep fighting to win more.
Right-wing gender politics: regenerated
Lisa Leak outlines the forces arrayed against trans people in Britain now.
We need more than crumbs: reject the NEU ‘deal’ in Wales
Schools strikes are suspended in Wales following a new offer from the Welsh government. rs21 members in NEU explain why it’s a bad deal and argue for stepping up rank and file organisation.
Everyone to London on 15 March!
15 March will be the biggest day of action so far in the current strike wave – we urge everyone to join the London protests on that day.
UCU dispute at the crossroads
rs21 members in UCU analyse the current UCU dispute and consider the role of the UCU bureaucracy in recent weeks. In January, the future of the UCU dispute over pay, pensions and conditions was in a precarious situation. A vote by the Higher Education Executive committee (HEC) to call indefinite strike action had been publicly […]
Stand together against attacks on trans people
Over forty local vigils for Brianna Ghey are planned. Stand together against the transphobes.
Review | Shake the City – Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis
Kate Bradley reviews Shake the City by Alexander Billet, a well-written and thought-provoking book on the role of music in making political change.
Half a million on strike – organise in your workplace to beat the Tories
A brilliant day – now escalate the strikes, build our unions at the grassroots.
January 2023’s week of resistance
Photographs celebrating the wave of protests and industrial action that swept Britain last week.
‘Adult Human Female’ and the contradictions of left-wing transphobia
rs21 member Úna O’Shea debunks a film that claims to provide a ‘materialist’ basis for gender essentialism.