We fight for the oppressed
Why the fight against oppression is at the heart of revolutionary politics
Political alternatives in an age of catastrophe
What socialist politics do we need in this time of disasters?
“Don’t back down, double down” – Festival of the Oppressed report
Report on rs21’s first Festival of the Oppressed gathering
Class and oppression
Some on the left say we should prioritise class struggles over issues of oppression. But fighting oppression is at the heart of socialism.
New left party: dead-end or dead right
Any new mass socialist formation must be rooted in class politics which understands its relation to oppression
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.
Inside the Ukrainian Resistance
Interview about the Ukrainian Resistance, the state of war, the dynamics of class struggle and popular consciousness, and the tasks of the international Left in building solidarity with Ukraine.
Inclusion and equality matter: Why are they missing from our approach to Covid?
Zero Covid Scotland activist Hannah Hassan outlines the many ways in which Covid policies discriminate against people with disabilities and intensifies existing inequalities.
The actuality of the revolution: exploitation and oppressions
In this extract from Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age, Neil Davidson suggests ways to draw struggles against oppression and exploitation together.
Hummingbird Salamander – An idea that won’t go away
Reviewing Jeff Vandermeer’s latest novel, Hummingbird Salamander, Jack Pickering finds not only a thrilling and unsettling work of climate fiction, but also a genre bending critique of modern capitalism and its destruction of nature.
Alba is a dead end
None of the main pro-independence parliamentary parties are capable of delivering an independent Scotland that puts the needs of working-class people first.
We Will Not Be Divided – Statement from Sisters Uncut
Sisters Uncut’s statement against police and state violence and the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021, originally published on 23 March 2021. rs21 signed the statement alongside groups including Black Lives Matter UK, Jewish Solidarity Action and Docs Not Cops.
Civil partnerships and reproductive rights in Eastern Europe: an interview with Laima Vaige
rs21’s Leslie Cunningham interviews Dr. Laima Vaige, a feminist and LGBTQ activist from Lithuania, on same-sex partnerships in Lithuania, abortion rights in Poland, and LGBTQ people’s experiences across Europe during the Covid crisis.
A criminal record: 10 times Bristol police abused local people
Bristol’s police force – presented by the media as the victims of a ‘mob’ – are among the most violent, racist and abusive parts of Britain’s police state.
In defence of the mob
After protesters in Bristol dared to fight back police violence, respectable opinion is rushing to condemn ‘rioters’. But is it really true that riots ‘don’t achieve anything’?
What happened at Clapham Common
An eyewitness account of a powerful event marred by shocking and gratuitous acts of violence by the Metropolitan Police.
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.
What a way to make a living | Teaching at the margins
A teacher in a non-mainstream secondary school gives her view on the daily life of teaching in a school which specialises in providing education for students whose needs are not met by mainstream institutions.
What a way to make a living | Introduction
Meet our new article series, What a way to make a living, which will explore the lived realities of work and exploitation under modern capitalism
revolutionary reflections | Invisible threads: on value and valorization
Charlie Jarsve goes back to the theory of value and exploitation in Marx’s Capital to explore how exploitation relates to different forms of oppression.
Some reflections on #MeToo
While #MeToo has seen countless people speak out about sexual violence and harassment, it has also revealed difficulties in building the means of confronting them.
Refugees – remember them?
Mitch Mitchell writes on Refugee Lifeboat, a new organisation that aims to marry humanitarian aid for refugees with an uncompromising political stand against state racism
Don’t let Israel hide Ahed’s trial
Israel’s apartheid regime is trying to hide its mistreatment of Ahed Tamimi, the teenage Palestinian political prisoner.
Capitalism’s life source: the domestic and social basis for exploitation
US-based socialist Tithi Bhattacharya responds to questions from rs21 on her new book about social reproduction theory.
What is Transgender Day of Remembrance, and why does it matter?
Charlie Powell and Taisie Tsikas write on the significance of Transgender Day of Remembrance in the ongoing struggle against the oppression of transgender people.
Reflections on ‘The Fall’
Colin Revolting gives his thoughts on The Fall, an extraordinary play about a protest movement in South African in 2015-16 which has had an enormous impact in the West.
Reflections of a reluctant transsexual
Evren Filgate gives their perspective on the reform of the Gender Recognition Act and the struggle that trans people face in their daily lives. We heard news a few weeks ago that the Gender Recognition Act is being reformed. Hooray! Surely that is a good thing. We have Made It; it is just like 2013, […]