The right to be an addict
Addiction isn’t the problem—criminalisation is. To end the crisis, we must abolish prisons, policing, and the system that fuels suffering.
Trans youth fight back: an interview with Trans Kids Deserve Better
The NHS, the Department of Education, and youth organising for trans liberation.
Why cutting welfare hurts non-claimants
The Tories are proposing yet more attacks on welfare benefits, and on sick and disabled people – and Labour’s obsession with ‘hard working families’ plays up to their divisive rhetoric. Ian Allininson argues that cuts to welfare are intended to lower wages.
Resist Sunak’s demonisation of disabled people
An analysis of how new governmental measures continue to demonise and punish disabled people.
Cass Review: dangerous and transphobic
Lisa Leak and Colin Wilson explain why we should reject Cass and renew the fight for trans liberation.
‘Our Bodies, Our Lives’: Hundreds protest against anti-abortion demonstration in London
rs21 member Colin Wilson reports from ‘Our Bodies, Our Lives’, the counter-protest to this weekend’s anti-abortion march in central London.
Fighting on for higher pay in the NHS
As junior doctors in the BMA prepare for three days of strike action this week, the pay fight isn’t over across the health service.
Review | Health Communism
How has capitalism wrecked health and care? Shiraz Hussain reviews Health Communism.
Reflections on International Workers’ Memorial Day
To mark IWMD, the rs21 Art Group made a zine with Cut-Through Collective, which we distributed in Glasgow and London across the May Day weekend.
Reject the health pay deal!
What’s the deal? Rob M argues NHS workers have to keep fighting to win more.
Why should socialists think about psychoanalysis?
Following a series of rs21 meetings this autumn, Marianne Kelly considers what we gained from our discussions of therapy, the mental health industry and psychoanalysis as a tool to critique capitalism.
Mad Pride campaigns for psychiatric abolition
Hundreds gathered to oppose abuse of psychiatric patients, celebrate Mad culture, and call for psychiatric abolition.
Support striking care workers!
Health and care workers are striking in Bristol and Blackburn.
NHS in crisis – fightback on pay can help save it
Health campaigner Gill George analyses the crisis facing the NHS – both nationally and in Shropshire, where she lives – and the campaigns to fight back.
The Silvertown tunnel is a health disaster
On Saturday 11 June, the Stop the Silvertown Tunnel Coalition held a Health Summit for a packed audience in Newham.
Omicron – circuit breaker now!
Johnson and Javid must stop prevaricating and introduce an urgent set of measures to dramatically reduce contacts. Every day of delay in introducing a circuit breaker to cut transmission is magnifying the crisis ahead of us.
A huge step forward for trans protest in Britain
rs21’s Charlotte Powell reports on a demonstration outside NHS England and explains why it is a hugely important moment in the struggle for trans liberation in Britain.
Patient Humans and other poems
Leila Platt writes on experiences of mental health treatment, Covid and power in ‘Patient Humans’ and other poems.
After Hancock, Tory corruption is here to stay
Beyond the headline-grabbing kiss of the Tories’ latest scandal is a series of personal relationships which the former Health Secretary turned into lucrative professional appointments and government partnerships. Gus Woody writes that this type of corruption is isn’t going anywhere while the Tory party remains in power.
Revolutionary Reflections | New Frankfurt and the Housing Question
1920s Frankfurt, in the wake of the 1918 German Revolution, established integrated housing, healthcare and education that is still impressive today.
IWD 2021: Five feminist fights for the year ahead
Reproductive justice, sexual violence and harassment, justice at work: on International Women’s Day, we look at key feminist fights for the year to come.
Are the Tories really reversing NHS privatisation?
The Tories’ new proposed health reforms grab more power for ministers – but that doesn’t mean an end to health privatisation.
Combatting unsafe workplaces: an interview with Janet Newsham
Every workplace is a Covid frontline, as employers try to force workers into unsafe situations. We interviewed Janet Newsham of the Hazards Campaign, which is fighting back.
‘As cold as charity’: repression and the ‘speculator state’
The government’s right-wing reform of public services continues apace – and NGOs and charities are being used as cover.
Agitating with Art: the Artivists at Work story so far
Artwork – not just ‘great art’ but cartoons and doodles – can add life and vibrancy to political messaging, and give people a mirror in which to recognise their own hopes and frustrations.
Big Pharma: saints or sinners?
Free-market ideologues claim that ‘Big Pharma’ has saved the day with its Covid vaccines. But pharma companies don’t drive innovation – they simply hoard its benefits.
Behind the spin: how effective are the vaccines?
Looking at the science behind the Covid vaccines provides real grounds for optimism – but we can’t pin all our hopes on a single silver bullet.
A psychologist’s view: Tory blame games hurt our mental health
The government’s blame games and their failed Covid strategy have helped to turn the pandemic into a full-blown mental health crisis.
‘We have a right to stop’: interview with a socialist nurse
Whereas the first wave of Covid-19 was an occasion for government-sponsored jingoism, the second wave is seeing health workers abandoned and left to manage the unmanageable.
The exception as the rule: Toronto’s social reproduction organising
In Toronto, community organisers are battling Covid in the shadow of colonial racial capitalism.