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A landscape image of United Kimpton Workers striking outside the Kimpton Clocktower hotel, a red brick building with scaffolding covering it. Red flags can be seen amonst the crowd. On the entrance arch, three flags can be seen - the butcher's apron, a progress pride flag, and a black clocktower flag.

Video | On strike at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel

Ish T-N spoke to Unite members at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel in Manchester out on strike against their employer InterContinental Hotels Group UK

Video | Support the strikers at the Institute of Cancer Research

Members of staff at the Institute of Cancer Research are currently on strike

A detail from the poster for Vermin with an Xpro filter over it. The poster is organge text on white paper background, which is on top of another layer of orange. The text reads 'VERMIN: Keep Manchester Weird' with one of the act 'Hedgehog' listed to the bottom left of the top section.

Interview | STAT Magazine on Vermin

rs21 interviews STAT Magazine editor Pete Mercer on their recent cultural event Vermin.

Party, class and the event: Interview with Phil A. Neel

Communist organisation emerges from our historical conditions, not mythologised blueprints from the past.

Edit version of a photo of the Capel Celyn Calvinistic Methodist chapel and the Plaid Cymru 'Keep Tryweryn' Rally at Bala. A large group of people sit and stand in a tent. The standing people hold Welsh flags. It gets darker towards the back. There is a green filter over the entire photo.

Interview | Plaid Cymru’s contradictions

An interview with Welsh socialist Mike Jenkins.

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

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

Interview | Mad Youth Organise

An interview with an activist from Mad Youth Organise

Interview | Conditions from Barlinnie prison

We conducted this interview with former HMP Barlinnie inmate Calum

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

Living rent rally outside the Scottish parliament

Interview | Tenant organising with Living Rent

rs21 interviews a Living Rent member on tenant and community organising in Scotland

Resisting Israeli scholasticide and academic apartheid – interview with Maya Wind

Israel’s genocidal war is massacring Palestinians and destroying their infrastructure, in particular, targeting Palestinian educational institutions

Interview | Empire of Normality

Hazel Croft talks to author Robert Chapman about their new book and discusses neurodiversity and how we can challenge the capitalist logics of ‘normality’.

Toward decolonisation: the struggle for Palestine today – interview with Tareq Baconi

Spectre Journal interviewed Tareq Baconi, author of Hamas Contained, about 7 October, Israel’s genocide, and the state of the Palestinian resistance and its implication for the region and world.

‘A symbol for the liberation struggle’

Interview with a pro-Palestinian protester in Germany.

Syria – ‘The people want the fall of the regime!’

Large demonstrations have been taking place across Syria in recent weeks. While their scale has yet to reach the peaks seen in 2011, many are hopeful that the government will be brought down. We republish an interview with an Australian based Syrian leftist.

This is a war against the studios – interviews with picketers in Hollywood

Interviews with striking actors and writers in Hollywood.

Image is a close-up of a crowd holding a variety of union flags including PCS and RMT, with placards saying "Protect our right to strike" and "Defend the Right to Strike". The people in the shot apear diverse in age, gender and race. In the centre of the shot, a person in a yellow shirt with the word 'RESIST' on it raises their left fist.

‘Lack and longing’: an interview with Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever

Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever answer questions about race, nation, working class struggle and the breakdown of Britain’s democratic settlement.

The IS History Project

A new oral history project aims to record the memories of socialist activists from the 1960s and early 1970s. Project members Sue Sparks and Hazel Croft explain its aims and its relevance for activists today in an interview with rs21 members.

Demonstration with banners and placards

Support the rail strikes!

Thousands of rail workers are about to take on the government in the biggest strike for years – and facing attacks from the Tory press. Two activists from the RMT rail union told rs21 why they will be striking, and why other workers should support them.

Picture: A screenshot of the Universal Credit application page on the gov.uk website. (Keywords: UC applications poverty welfare benefits)

A Universal Credit inquiry | Part 1

Millions of people out of work due to Covid are experiencing the cruelty of the Tories’ reformed welfare system for the first time.

The Trumpian afterlife

The incoming Biden administration may repeal a few of Trump’s ugliest policies, but the revitalised far right is not going away.

An image of Ian Birchall, by Colin Fancy. Keywords: Ian Birchall Algeria France Marxism socialism IS International Socialists

Unearthing hidden histories: an interview with Ian Birchall

An interview with socialist historian Ian Birchall. Ian’s work has has involved researching and reevaluating lesser-known revolutionaries and activists from the Global South.

Fortress Europe after Moria

After Moria burned to the ground, a new camp was quickly built to replace it. We interviewed Chloe Haralambous and Michalis Poulimas about events on the ground and what they mean for the EU border regime.

Interview: Annie Cohen, Union of Jewish Students presidential candidate

Annie Cohen has been called the ‘anti-Zionist candidate’ for leadership of the Union of Jewish Students (UJS). rs21 interviewed her about why she’s standing. Annie Cohen, tell us a bit about why you decided to stand for UJS President. I’m very involved in Jewish left wing activism with Jewdas*, which has grown incredibly over the […]

Interview: Women in the Revolution

Estelle Cooch interviews Katy Turton author of Forgotten Lives – the role of Lenin’s sisters in the Russian Revolution The role of women in the February Revolution is relatively well known about, but how involved were women in the events of October? As you would expect, women were participants in the October revolution, but they […]

The easiest rig to stop is the first one

The protectors in Kirby Misperton know they are on the frontline. They are determined to stop the frackers, using direct action if necessary.

Syria Russia US intervention

Support the Syrian people – not the USA or Russia

No imperialist power can improve the situation in Syria – only the Syrian revolution itself can secure lasting peace

A turning point in Polish politics: the #czarnyprotest and Monday’s women’s strike

Large protests have taken place in Poland against a proposed ban on abortion in all cases. On Monday (3 October) Polish women are taking part in a nationwide strike to defend their basic reproductive rights. Mark Bergfeld, who researches Polish immigrant workers as part of his PhD, spoke to Aleksandra Wolke who is a feminist […]

The Labour Party experience – interviews with new Labour activists

Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has attracted new activists to party politics, as well as those who were members of other parties, further to the left of Labour.