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Mass protests after flotilla interception

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

Race against time: how do we challenge the new far right?

Report on Saturday’s huge far right march in London, its roots and how the left can challenge and defeat them

Nepal protests have deeper roots

Protests in Nepal against against a government social media ban grew into an uprising.

Block everything: the struggle in France

The Bloquons tout movement in France has brought students, workers and activists together in blockades and strikes

Far-right marchers take to the streets to demonise refugees

Responding to the racist moral panic

The nature of the threats from racism and fascism has changed in the last few years. Strategies to oppose them need to change too

Trans+ Youth banner leads the huge march

London Trans+ Pride – a historic and radical protest

Over 100,000 took part in an angry demo with none of the corporate floats and respectability politics that have dominated queer mobilisations.

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.

Protests by university students in front of Beyazıt Square in Istanbul

A letter from Istanbul: Reflections on the recent protests

Protests against the increasingly repressive Turkish government have now continued for months.

Large fire burning on the street

The battle of Los Angeles: the first weekend

American socialists report from the streets of California.

Struggle and Strategy in the Platform Economy

As workers in the platform economy fight back how can sporadic, dispersed strikes be turned into a sustainable movement?

Nakba 77 demonstrations

A report with photographs from rs21 members on yesterday’s Nakba 77 demonstrations.

Crowd on Trans liberation protest placard reads biological essentialism ia not the same as feminism

The Supreme Court decision: when law becomes the means of oppression

The Supreme Court decision is a break with precedent and a concession to right wing pressure that harms all women.

Crowd of thousands in Parliament Square

Huge protests condemn Supreme Court attack on trans people

Protests have shown huge support for trans people this weekend – we can fight and we can win!

Brightly coloured tents around a statue I Albert Square Manchester

The Green Paper: a final rollout of the workfare state

A detailed analysis of the green paper which is all about workfare not welfare.

Disabled people protesting outside Norfolk County Hall

10 ways you can fight the disability benefits cuts

Ten ideas for ways to oppose Labour’s cuts to disabled people’s benefits

London housing crisis – Peckham fights back

Peckham protesters are standing up to one of London’s biggest housing developers

Higher education in crisis – what now for UCU?

As massive cuts and redundancies are threatened across the university sector – how can we build the fightback?

We will not be silenced

Joint statement with movement organisations on the events of 18 January on the PSC national demonstration for Palestine.

Migrant farm workers fight for justice in Britain

A report on a migrant farm worker’s protest and the campaign for rights for workers on seasonal visas

Palestine activists face the British state of terror

The British state’s anti-terror powers target pro-Palestine activists unjustly

Everything must fall, everything must change

The current regime in Kenya has been struck a devastating blow by the uprising of youth. The state has been weakened and is now vulnerable. This regime can fall.

Stop fuelling Israel

Research and strategy to stop Britain fuelling the Zionist occupation.

A group of protesters holding signs and a large banner that reads "No to Tommy Robinson, No to Fascism

The riots, Tommy Robinson, and the left we need to build

How to mobilise against racism and fascism

Rape and murder in Kolkata – mass protests against state-sanctioned sexist violence

Protests have spread across West Bengal following the rape and murder of a trainee doctor. This report gives context of systemic violence against women in India.

Bangladesh: student protests continue

Protestors in Bangladesh are continuing to organise despite the government, led by Sheikh Hasina, backing down on the reinstatement of job quotas that reserved places for relatives of war veterans.

Tents outside Sheffield uni, police standing in front of the Glasgow Home Office gates, police and protestors at sites in London.

Long hot summer?

London, Glasgow, Manchester – a brief flash of activity or the start of a long hot summer?

Activists holding a large banner that reads ‘sponsored by BP’ form a blockade outside the front gates of the British Museum.

Interview with Energy Embargo for Palestine

rs21 interviews the activist group Energy Embargo for Palestine

The DRC bleeds because of the world’s greed

Report from a Stand with Congo demonstration in Central London on 6 April where at least a hundred protestors gathered to highlight the situation in the eastern Congo

Police in green uniform and helmets and holding batons run down a road in Senegal. They are turning back to look at the protestors behind them.

Resisting state brutality in Senegal

History of the political crisis in Senegal in light of the current elections.

Solidarity actions for Palestine grow and spread

Solidarity with Palestine proliferates: actions in Newcastle, Manchester, Somerset, Bolton, Glasgow.