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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

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

Interview | Race and Class in Crisis

Continuing the discussion on race and class in Britain today

Trans+ Youth banner leads the huge march

We fight for the oppressed

Why the fight against oppression is at the heart of revolutionary politics

Gaza: the shifting ground of empire and resistance

As Israel escalates its project, the cracks appearing within Western support reveal both the brutality of the moment and the urgency of resistance

Workers for a Free Palestine: organising against the genocide 

Worker outreach is an essential part of anti-militarist strategy, confronting Zionism and rebuilding the left

Why anti-border politics is class struggle

Opposition to borders is central to class struggle and anti-capitalist politics

Poster - We are All Foreign Scum

‘We Are All Foreign Scum’

Internationalism and anti-imperialism link 1960s protests against the Vietnam War and those in solidarity with Palestine today.

Israel’s new barbarity

The background to Israel’s new attacks on Iran

Nine year old Phan Thị Kim Phúc, her back severely burned by napalm, runs down a road near Trảng Bàng, 8 June 1972. Photo – Nick Ut, public domain

Long read | Vietnam, 1968 and what lies ahead of us

The Vietnam War ended fifty years ago. The struggle against the war changed the world and still echoes today.

Chinese imperialism: no better than the US?

China’s huge international investments are about imperialist power, not helping the Global South develop or opening up space for progressive movements.

Cover of Eros and Empire

Review | Eros and Empire

A new book uncovers a history of radical struggles which both fought for queer liberation and opposed American imperialism.