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Destination Defence

Destination Defence is a new government attempt to intensify the militarisation of British society.

Review | Or Something Worse

To tackle climate breakdown, workers and communities must seize control of the environmental transition

ICE: Very American violence

The fatal killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent forces a reckoning with state violence

Venezuela after 3 January

What does the future hold for Venezuela after the kidnapping on Maduro?

Imperial machinations, oil and the rebirth of the Monroe Doctrine

Venezuela reveals a struggle for US control over the western hemisphere’s resources

Image of UKIP British flags at UKIP march Knightsbridge, west London 25th October 2025. Courtesy of Steve Eason

Fighting the far right: against the ideology of nationhood

A critical examination of how the concept of ‘the nation’ helps to advance reactionary agendas

Venezuela: between crisis and invasion

An in depth analysis of the crisis in Venezuela as US aggression steps up

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Review | Overreach: how China derailed its peaceful rise

Overreach is written from within the US establishment and provides insight into why the US sees China as a mortal enemy

Interview | Building a world of radical abundance

rs21 interviews Keir Milburn on emancipatory eco-social transitions in theory and practice.

Election poster on a lampost in a Dublin street

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

Britain’s vanishing nightlife

What the loss of night clubs mean, for community, for queer freedom and for the right to collective joy

Film poster for I Swear

Review | I Swear

Colin Revolting reviews I Swear, a film about the life of Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson

Photograph of a crowd of people, at the front is a red and white sign reading in block capitals 'STOP GENOCIDE'

How Italian dockers disrupted the Israeli war machine

In September, Italian dockers refused to work on ships in the Israeli supply lines

What do we mean by communism?

Fighting for communism means fighting for an unparalleled increase in human freedom

Cover of the book showing image of a migrating swallow

The precarious migrant worker

This new book digs deep into how migrant workers see their place in work and society

The Gaza ceasefire

Solidarity with the people of Palestine

Communards in Paris in 1871

Breaking the state

We need to smash the state to create a new world of freedom

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.

Labour’s hollow response to antisemitic violence

The government’s response to the antisemitic attack in Crumpsall reveals a cynical conflation of Jewish identity with Zionism

Mass protests after flotilla interception

Report about the protests showing solidarity after the Israeli military intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla

Crowds gather in the concourse of Edinburgh's Waverley station

Solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla

rs21 stands in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla

How do Marxists think like internationalists

Thinking like an internationalist

DK Renton explains why it’s vital to reject nationalism and stand with anti-imperialist struggles

Red and Green Flag of the situationist international

The case for abolishing mass media

Far-right movements are driven not just by ideology but by the media itself

Living rent rally outside the Scottish parliament

A party built by collective action

A perspective on the new left party from activists in Scotland

Review | The Starmer symptom

Pat Stack reviews Mark Perryman’s essay collection on Starmer’s betrayals and Labour’s deepening crisis

Your Party: Don’t fuck this up

rs21 steering group argues that the stakes are too high for Your Party to fail. Everyone who wants to see it succeed needs to act now

Race against time: how do we challenge the new far right?

Report on Saturday’s huge far right march in London, its roots and how the left can challenge and defeat them

Nepal protests have deeper roots

Protests in Nepal against against a government social media ban grew into an uprising.

Block everything: the struggle in France

The Bloquons tout movement in France has brought students, workers and activists together in blockades and strikes

The workers have the power

Workers have the power to bring the capitalist system down