Review | Enemy Feminisms
Sophie Lewis’ new book is a mini-encyclopaedia of TERFs, policewomen and girlbosses.
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
Minority Rule, Race and Class
What would a working class politics look like that takes account of racism?
Review | Hard Graft
Kika Hendry reviews the Wellcome Collection’s exhibition Hard Graft, which explores the relationship between work and health tracing through histories of exploitation, oppression and resistance.
Liberation delayed: the trap of ‘war on woke’
How can we generate our own meanings and oppose right-wing moral panics about identity politics?
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.
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.
The cultural problem of ‘treatlerism’
Treatlerism describes a reactionary entitlement rooted in exploitation. But what if we reclaimed entitlement?
Working class unity means anti-racist unity: no compromise with racist state power
rs21 members make the case for an anti-racist politics that combats all forms of oppression and exploitation
The storm and the street – racist riots and how to fight back
rs21 statement on the far right protests and how to fight back
Ecological politics and revolutionary strategy
Harry H reflects on ecological politics and revolutionary strategy in a Nakba day talk at the Warwick encampment
Do workers in the Global North benefit from the exploitation of workers in the South?
Charlie Post argues that imperialism has intensified exploitation across the entire global working class
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.
Where did all the gravediggers go?
‘A Nation of Shopkeepers’ asks important questions about class in Britain today, but lacks clarity in its answers.
Fighting transphobia: a practical and theoretical guide
A new print publication to resource the movement for trans liberation.
Revolt and reaction: lessons from the struggles in Sudan, Syria, and Palestine
Revolution and reaction in Sudan, Syria and Palestine.
Rosa Luxemburg on May Day and working class struggles
On International Workers’ Day, or May Day, rs21 presents two classic texts by the revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg on the history and significance of the day. What Are the Origins of May Day? (1894) The happy idea of using a proletarian holiday celebration as a means to attain the eight-hour day was first born in […]
IWD 2021: Five feminist fights for the year ahead
Reproductive justice, sexual violence and harassment, justice at work: on International Women’s Day, we look at key feminist fights for the year to come.
Tactics of resistance: what’s the point of pickets?
In part two of a series looking at differing tactics for winning battles in the workplace, Derek Fraser looks at picketing, and how it can be used successfully in the current context.
Combatting unsafe workplaces: an interview with Janet Newsham
Every workplace is a Covid frontline, as employers try to force workers into unsafe situations. We interviewed Janet Newsham of the Hazards Campaign, which is fighting back.
Next steps in the fight for safe schools
The government’s retreat on school closures won’t last forever. Education workers need to go on the offensive.
Building power in a crisis
Covid-19 is a medical crisis, but also a social one. Amid the devastating social impacts of the crisis, we’re also seeing determined new initiatives of resistance.
Video: Fighting back and building power during the Covid crisis
Three separate activists draw lessons from fights to defend working-class lives and livelihoods inside and outside the workplace.
Eviction ban ends: how can renters fight back?
The government is trying to restart evictions just as a second wave of Covid-19 is arriving. We need to escalate our organising against evictions, rent debt and homelessness.
Class struggle against Covid
We are facing a second wave of Covid-19 due to the reckless drive for profit of the capitalist class. Mass action from below is the key to stopping the virus – and remaking society in the interests of the majority.
Not one more of us will be sacrificed
rs21 members argue that deaths and job losses are not inevitable and that as we can’t rely on government or employers, we will have to rely on each other to fight for our lives and our livelihoods.
Educators meet the challenge
Education workers have shown creativity and determination in embracing virtual organising methods to strengthen their opposition to the government’s wider reopening of schools.
Rent strike in the Covid conjuncture?
As the knock-on effects of the Covid-19 pandemic make it impossible for many workers to pay rent while meeting their own basic needs, Allan Struthers examines the prospects for large-scale rent strikes in Britain
revolutionary reflections | Which side are you on? Work, class and the 99%
Confusion is rife about what we mean by working class or middle class. Bob Carter argues that a focus on exploitative workplace relationships is far more illuminating than arbitrary hierarchies of inequality.