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Internal colonialism

An overview of the internal colonialism theory.

Review | The Winter Circus: A Memoir by Leo Zeilig

A review of the new novel by Leo Zeilig

The USSR and colonialism

The Soviet Union had a complex relationship with colonialism that evolved over decades

Echoes of 1905

An Imperialist nation is defeated at sea by a smaller power. Are talking about 2026, or 1905?

Disorienting times

A speech from the opening of FOTO 2026

people playing football on sandy ground, with car tires as goal posts. a young man ist jumping towards the ball.

Solidarity through football

What’s next for football after the FIFA farce?

Protestors confront an ICE officer who is getting out of a car. They carry ICE OUT signs.

The state of the resistance in Trump’s America 

The resistance has emerged from the streets, not the Democrats 

Unite’s General Secretary election

Who to vote for and what to do after the election

An edited image of a protestor at the UK embassy in Lisbon. They hold a sign saying 'Free the Filton24'. It has been edited to look red with black shadows.

Banned but not beaten: Palestine Action and the state’s total lawfare

DK Renton covers the Court of Appeals upholding of the Palestine Action ban, the past struggles, and the next steps.

A photo showing a white van and activists blocking an entrance to a factory. They carry a banner saying shut elbit down.

Re-igniting direct action for Palestine

rs21 interviews Arms Embargo From Below, which aims to rebuild a disruptive, anti-imperialist movement

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

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.

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

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

No war with Iran – the main enemy is at home

rs21 statement on the attacks on Iran.

Israel: the making of a racist state – new edition

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

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.

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.

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

Colonial roots of Manchester’s homelessness

What are the root causes of homelessness for many people in Manchester

South Africa’s hydrogen extractive frontier: climate action or recolonisation?

A critical examination of the development of green hydrogen manufacture in South Africa

Dense cold of protesters Rainbow banner and Black Lives Matter placards

Interview | Black Lives Matter UK

BLM UK’s approach to electoral politics, anti-racist and anti-racist organising and the struggle for a free Palestine

Review | Emergency Exits exhibition 

The Imperial War Museum’s ‘Emergency Exits’ explores Britain’s violent retreat from empire and the brutality of colonial rule

Prisoners for Palestine logo

Solidarity with the hunger strikes

Political prisoners on hunger strike are challenging the counter-terror laws and the criminalisation of Palestinian solidarity inside Britain’s prisons

A photo of a white paper-mache key, symbol of the return of Palestinian exiles & refugees, held aloft by two people attending The World Transformed 2025 opening march. The activists are wearing two different coloured keffiyehs, and are surrounded by others wielding Palestine flags.

Interview | Palestinian Youth Movement

An interview with the British chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement at TWT 2025

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

The Gaza ceasefire

Solidarity with the people of Palestine

Mass protests after flotilla interception

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