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Review | Revolutionary Forgiveness

Creating the conditions for forgiveness is socialist practice

Motor Tanker (M/T) Wila, a merchant vessel in international waters en-route to the UAE port of Khor Fakkan, in the Gulf of Oman, was boarded by armed Iranian personnel who fast roped aboard the ship from an Iranian Sea King helicopter as it hovered above. Coalition Task Force Sentinel, the operational arm of the International Maritime Security Construct, is a multinational maritime effort which promotes maritime stability and safe passage, enhancing freedom of navigation throughout key waterways in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Southern Red Sea.

China and the Iran war – a provisional assessment

China is weathering the war and turning crisis into influence

images of the two books hinterland and hellword by Phil A. Neel.

From Hinterland to Hellworld: Interview with Phil A. Neel

The hinterland is always a technical space of capital, operationalised for the global production of value

five pamhplets of the general strike pamphlet by harry wicks, new edition printed by Revolutonary History.

Review | Harry Wicks: The General Strike

A century on, the ‘thunderclap without warning’ of 1926 still carries a lesson: the greatest threat to a militant working class is the leadership standing above it

One hundred years since the General Strike

The 1926 General Strike began one hundred years ago today.

Making use of the Employment Rights Act

A workplace activist’s guide on how to use the new Employment Rights Act 2025 to build worker power beyond the legislation itself.

A crowd of antifascists block a street. It is a mixed crowd of people wearing different colours. They carry banners in the front. Most people are young, and many are wearing masks, especially in the front.

Manchester holds the line against ‘Britain First’ 

Police violence escalated massively – but antifascists in Manchester once again challenged ‘Britain First’ in the streets.

The image is taken by an audience member of the Your Party Sctoland founding conference in Dundee. Audience memebrs are sitting on chairs in severeal rows, looking at the panel in front. Your Party merch banners fill the stage.

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

A collage in black and white illustrating and symbolsing the war against Iran. Trump is in the front, his gaze to the side, looking on the strait for hormuz, which is filled with war ships and a big iranian flag.

Iran, the ‘ceasefire’, and the crisis of American hegemony

Force alone does not make an empire

Palestine protestors with flags face a police line in front of them.

Guilty of organising: the crackdown on mass protest in Britain

The convictions of Nineham and Jamal are proof the state wants this movement to end – which is exactly why we can’t stop now.

A photo from a Die Linke party congress. One party member smiles and holds a sign saying "For everyone. Die Linke" in German.

The charms and pitfalls of extreme pluralism – Lessons from Die Linke

Die Linke’s party congresses pass resolutions that half the organisation simply ignores.

the cover of the book muskism on a colouful background.

Review | Muskism

Musk merges high-tech capitalism with autocratic control and far-right ideology into a coherent, antidemocratic whole.

A poster that says "Workers unite, Back to the Workplace!" with a red fist.

What future for Unite the Union?

The union’s direction on strikes, organising, Labour Party ties, and key political issues is at stake.

the image shows the poster of the movie "Wasteman" with two imprisoned men looking into the camera.

Review | Wasteman

On our fear of punishment, and what it costs to act on belief.

An image of a group of campaigners of "Hackney Votes Palestine" taking a group photo. Many of them are wearing Palestine-related clothes and holding flags of banners. They look happy and are smiling. It's sunny and there's trees in the background.

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

Video | The POUM: republic, revolution and counterrevolution

The role of the POUM in the Spanish Civil War

Fighting for intersex liberation: a conversation with Juliana Gleeson

Hermaphrodite Logic explores the history of the intersex movement from the 1990s to today, which still has much left to do

An image of a beach after a flood witha big city in the background. There is a small blue truck faced towards the camera stuck in the mud.

Portugal floods: The politics of “natural” disasters

Portugal’s floods are not natural disasters. They are the predictable result of political choices protecting fossil capital

An image of a road in Khartoum, Sudan. Several cars are going in both directions and an airplane is taking off, facing the direction of the camera. There are LG and other advertisements on the sides and graffitis on the walls.

Food, land, water: Africa and emerging Gulf sub-imperialisms

Gulf involvement in Africa reproduces the worst aspects of parasitic and decaying capitalism

green pharmaceutical heroin bottle by Bayer.

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.

No war with Iran – the main enemy is at home

rs21 statement on the attacks on Iran.

Manchester resists ‘Britain First’

A report from the Manchester anti-fascist mobilisation.

Islington Council offices

Palestine hunger striker to contest local council seat in May

Incarcerated activist’s electoral campaign places the treatment of political prisoners in the spotlight.

Nurseries, childcare and class struggle in England

The problems with Labour’s plans to expand nursery provision.

Review | How to win a strike

How to Win a Strike, is a rough guide for activists and striking workers.

Universities: what has happened to the Secretary of State dispute?

The university system is in crisis and there has been no action on a dispute with the Secretary of State for Education that was agreed by conference delegates in May.

Israel: the making of a racist state – new edition

The preface to the new edition of Israel: the making of a racist state

American Flag

Not a rupture, but the next step: fascism is here

With the intensification of ultranationalism, racism, and authoritarian state practice, has a novel form of fascism has emerged?

Report from the Scottish Your Party conference

A report from the inaugural conference of Your Party Scotland

Your Party CEC elections

What’s at stake in the Your Party elections.