After the resignations: How Your Party lost Scotland
Many members have been ejected due to dual membership, and others have left in anger and dismay
Hackney Votes Palestine? Insights from a grassroots electoral campaign
Local election victories are worth pursuing as a means of building the organisations and protected ground necessary for mass working-class reorganisation
Push that green: Labour’s by-election fearmongering
Against government efforts to demonise drug users, we need an approach built around universal compassion and decriminalisation.
Palestine hunger striker to contest local council seat in May
Incarcerated activist’s electoral campaign places the treatment of political prisoners in the spotlight.
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
Interview | Behind the Zohran Mamdani campaign
Interview with NYC-DSA organisers about the campaign behind Zohran Mamdani’s
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.
Is this the end of Labour in Wales?
What are the forces behind Labour’s decline in Wales and how can new movements might shape it?
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
Inside Die Linke
We talked to activists from Germany’s left Die Linke party about its recent success and issues as they move forwards.
South Korea: a right-wing coup defeated, but deeper issues unresolved
South Korea goes to the polls in ten days.
German election: far right surges, chances for the radical left
A big step forward for the AfD, a surprise success for Die Linke
Is it time for a new left party in Britain?
A contribution to the debate about a new left party by rs21 members.
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.
When the circus leaves town
A revolutionary Marxist organisation in the US considers a Left re-orientation and response to the dismal US electoral situation.
Ireland today: interview with Goretti Horgan and Eamonn McCann
Pat Stack talks to Derry based socialists Goretti Horgan and Eamonn McCann
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.
Election – threats from the right, big new chances for the left
Colin Wilson provides an analysis of the election, including the unreported detail of successes for a new kind of left
The Popular Front then and now – France and the elections
Ian Birchall looks back at the history of the original Popular Front and outlines what’s at stake in France’s general election.
Review | The Vote
Danny Bee reviews Paul Foot’s ‘The Vote’ – how it was won and how it’s undermined.
Setback for Modi in India’s elections
Narendra Modi’s right-wing government suffered a severe setback in the recent elections in India. Tanroop Sandhu looks at the reasons for this reverse, in an edited version of a talk delivered to East London rs21.
South Africa: the beginning of the end of the ANC
For the first time in South Africa’s 30 years of democracy, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to obtain a majority of votes, making a coalition imminent.
Making Gaza the issue in the general election
Jonny Jones argues for making Gaza a central issue in the general election as part of starting to build a serious opposition to Starmer’s Labour.
Kick out the Tories, prepare to fight Starmer
Colin Wilson analyses the 2 May council and mayoral elections in England.