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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.

Venezuela: imperialism, post Chavismo, and resistance from below (part 2)

The second part of a two part article looks at the opportunities for resistance and the regional implications of Trump’s attack.

Three days in Minneapolis

An eye witness report of resistance in Minneapolis

Venezuela: imperialism, post Chavismo, and resistance from below (part 1)

Part 1 of a two part analysis of Trump’s attack on Venezuela and the possibilities for resistance.

Minneapolis: Resistance surges amid crackdown

Joe Allen examines the violence in Minneapolis and the burgeoning to resistance to it

The Employment Rights Act: what it means and where to go next

To respond to the Employment Rights Act, workers must go on the offensive

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