Our universities! Our planet!
The end of the first week of UCU strike action coincided with the latest climate strike on Friday 29 November. rs21 members report on pickets from around the country.
UCU strikes: a fighting start
Eight days of strikes got off to a confident start across sixty Higher Education institutions today.
Trans Day of Remembrance 2019
20 November is Trans Day of Remembrance. Patricia Lockhart, an activist with Sisters Uncut, reports on developments in Scotland and argues that socialists need to stand against transphobia now more than ever.
Review: Contralto
Kate Bradley reviews Contralto, a one-hour work for video, strings, and percussion that features a cast of transgender women
On labelling fascists: postscript
Caliban’s Revenge revisits his argument that we should identify the fascist core of the new right wing street movement, as part of a broader anti-racist struggle.
We will strike and we will win!
Thousands of people gathered in front of the Bank of England for the Women’s Strike on International Women’s Day 2019.
The Communist Women’s Movement
As we mark International Women’s Day (8 March), Estelle Cooch talks Darya Dyakonova and Mike Taber about the history of the Communist Women’s Movement (1920-22).
Não passarão – the fight against Bolsonaro
Listen to anti-Bolsonaro activists discuss the far-right turn in Brazilian politics and what we can do to organise in solidarity.
Favourites of 2018: rs21 reviewers recommend…
Our reviewers recommend the music, films, books, exhibitions and TV they discovered in 2018.
Report: No to Tommy Robinson – No to Fortress Britain
On 9 December, thousands of people gathered to confront the far right’s ‘Brexit Betrayal’ demo in London.
Social reproduction, the Global Women’s Strike and the future of revolutionary theory
The final plenary at the Revenge of Everyday Life conference saw Tithi Bhattacharya and Siggie Vertommen lead a discussion on social reproduction, the Global Women’s Strike and the future of revolutionary theory.
Weathering the storm
Reflections on the election of the far-right Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil by Lisa Leak, who spent Election Day with anti-fascists and feminists outside the Brazilian Embassy.
Trump’s transphobic attack is deeper than definitions
The Trump administration is escalating its attacks on transgender people — and the left has a duty to not only resist, but put forward a positive vision, writes Fainan Lakha. Shock and sickness produced a heaviness in my body that kept me pinned me under the covers all Sunday. Moments after waking up that morning, I […]
Neither Westminster nor Stormont
This week, buoyed by the #NowForNI campaign, Labour MPs have made multiple attempts to extend reproductive rights to the North of Ireland. On Tuesday 23 October, Diana Johnson’s largely symbolic ten-minute rule bill to scrap the 1861 Offences Against the Persons Act (the law used to criminalise abortion) passed its first reading by 208 to […]
AUDIO: My body, my choice
In a discussion held at rs21’s September 2018 National Meeting, Kate Bradley introduces pro-choice activist Maev McDaid (3:40) and transfeminist Joni Cohen (17:50) on reproductive rights and freedoms for cis and trans women. The recent referendum in the Republic of Ireland made headlines around the world, but much remains undone for reproductive rights in both Ireland […]
Report on A Day Without Men 2018
A Day Without Men featured sessions on fascism and sexual violence, migration and the care industry, and workplace organising.
Anti-fascist demonstrators outnumber the far right in London
On October 13th, the DFLA attempted a rally in London and were opposed by thousands of counter-demonstrators. rs21 members report on the day’s events. On the 13th of October, the far-right Democratic Football Lad’s Alliance (DFLA) attempted to march through London. In response, two counter-demonstrations formed at around midday to shut them down. The DFLA […]
Video: Ele Não! Brazilians protest Jair Bolsonaro
rs21 spoke to Brazilians protesting against far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro as the country went to the polls for the first round of voting
Care, consent and coercion under capitalism
Alan Sears, a socialist activist based in Toronto, spoke to Hazel Croft about sexuality, sexual coercion and consent, and the possibilities for sexual liberation today.
AUDIO: The Fire Last Time – 1968
Marxist historian Neil Davidson talks on 1968 and the broader period of uprisings and reprisals of which it became the most visible example
The people versus the parliament in Argentina
The Argentine Senate’s vote against legal abortion is a bitter setback – but Argentine women will not be silenced
Always anti-fascist, always anti-sexist
Kate Bradley considers the misogyny at the heart of fascism, and asks how we can better challenge it.
Mobilise for trans equality now
A planned reform that simplifies how trans people gain recognition of their gender has sparked a wave of attacks on trans people, and not only from the right.
Get The State Out Of My Bedroom
Are civil partnerships a new freedom, or do they simply show us how far there still is to go for real liberation?
Labour is letting down sex workers
The narrow space left in UK law for sex workers to operate in is under threat of being further restricted.
Race, Gender and Social Reproduction in British Capitalism 1945-78
How can we understand the ways that capitalism comes to be gendered and racialised?
‘I Am My Own Guardian’ – State repression of Saudi activists
Recent arrests of Women’s Rights activists in Saudi Arabia are part of a cynical attempt by the State to monopolise the notion of reform and crush dissent.
Some reflections on #MeToo
While #MeToo has seen countless people speak out about sexual violence and harassment, it has also revealed difficulties in building the means of confronting them.
“Marielle’s death was not just more of the same”
The assassination of Marielle Franco marks a new phase in Brazil’s political repression of the left.
These Walls Must Fall: solidarity with Yarl’s Wood detainees
A photo report from the Yarl’s Wood hunger strike solidarity demonstration in Manchester, 8 March 2018