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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 

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

Photograph of José Maria de Almeida, a middle aged man, with tan skin and male pattern baldness. He wears a blue shirt with a white t shirt underneath. He holds a microphone and has his right hand raised, gesticulating as he talks. The background is a mixture of pink and blue lights.

The Price of Saying ‘Free Palestine’: Zé Maria and International Repression

Florence Open and Martin Ralph write on the incarceration of the Brazilian trade unionist, and how to show solidarity.

A crowd of antifascists block a street. It is a mixed crowd of people wearing different colours. They carry banners in the front. Most people are young, and many are wearing masks, especially in the front.

Manchester holds the line against ‘Britain First’ 

Police violence escalated massively – but antifascists in Manchester once again challenged ‘Britain First’ in the streets.

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 beach after a flood witha big city in the background. There is a small blue truck faced towards the camera stuck in the mud.

Portugal floods: The politics of “natural” disasters

Portugal’s floods are not natural disasters. They are the predictable result of political choices protecting fossil capital

Minneapolis: Resistance surges amid crackdown

Joe Allen examines the violence in Minneapolis and the burgeoning to resistance to it

ICE: Very American violence

The fatal killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent forces a reckoning with state violence

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

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