Coronavirus and its impact on Black communities
In the rising coronavirus death toll, black and brown people in the UK are represented in disproportionate numbers, due to not only discrimination and poverty, but because they make up a sizeable amount of the frontline workforce working without adequate PPE, argues Zita Holbourne.
Video: Stop the deportations – end the Windrush scandal
Ian Allinson reports from a rally in Manchester against deportations, the hostile environment and the mistreatment of the Windrush generation and their descendants.
Whose land? Resisting the Tories’ anti-traveller policy plans
Hanna Gál writes on why the Tories’ plan to increase police powers against illegal encampments must be resisted.
Guns, gangs and imperialism
Guy Ritichie’s film The Gentlemen is a violent fantasy about ongoing Anglo-American global dominance, writes Kate Bradley.
Music of the people: The Blues
Mitch Mitchell is back with another people’s music playlist. This time he’s here with a brief history of The Blues
Borders and the climate emergency
Ida Picard analyses the function that borders play in extinction capitalism and argues that we must be uncompromising in calling for all borders to go.
Converging crises at Endgames? Capitalism and the climate emergency
On 26 October, rs21 hosted a day of discussions in London about capitalism and the climate emergency. The first session of the day discussed how the climate crisis is related to imperialism and state control.
200 years after Peterloo, do we face a new wave of repression?
As we approach the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, Ian Allinson argues that the right are pressing Boris Johnson to introduce a new wave of repression.
Waltham Forest Pride: we can’t arrest our way to liberation
Police protection for LGBT people may be a mark of social progress – but liberation does not come from getting the cops on side
Daunted and doomed
Boris Johnson’s election signals a desperate new stage in the long death of British conservatism, writes Duncan Thomas.
Panthéon occupation: Fear has changed sides
On 12 July, hundreds of Gilets Noires (black vests) occupied the Panthéon building in Paris to demand an end to the persecution, deportations and exploitation of migrants.
Knife crime and the myth of the friendly copper
Mitch Mitchell argues that putting more police on the streets will not solve the problem of knife crime and will lead to more targeting of BAME youth.
Citizenship deprivation at the nexus of race, gender and geopolitics
Counter-terrorism policing functions to help further advance, harden and normalise the security state in the name of national security.
Favourites of 2018: rs21 reviewers recommend…
Our reviewers recommend the music, films, books, exhibitions and TV they discovered in 2018.
Immigration White Paper: We treat #PatientsNotPassports
The government published its delayed Immigration White Paper yesterday. Here a doctor tells us about the damage current immigration policies is already causing patients.
Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin’s race problem
David Renton reviews the latest opportunistic attempt to make sense of the resurgence of reactionary politics in the West.
rs21 pamphlet | Israel: the making of a racist state
A new rs21 pamphlet explains exactly how the Israel-Palestine conflict came into being – and why Israel has always been a racist state
Report on A Day Without Men 2018
A Day Without Men featured sessions on fascism and sexual violence, migration and the care industry, and workplace organising.
Video: Ele Não! Brazilians protest Jair Bolsonaro
rs21 spoke to Brazilians protesting against far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro as the country went to the polls for the first round of voting
US prison strike: the slaves rebel
The heroic strike action of prisoners in the United States highlights the potential for revolt among America’s modern-day slave population
Always anti-fascist, always anti-sexist
Kate Bradley considers the misogyny at the heart of fascism, and asks how we can better challenge it.
Race, Gender and Social Reproduction in British Capitalism 1945-78
How can we understand the ways that capitalism comes to be gendered and racialised?
Antisemitism, then and now: Part 2 of 2
In part two of an extended interview with rs21, David Rosenberg of the Jewish Socialist Group explores the far-right links of the modern Tory Party, and sets out how socialists can combat antisemitism
Rock Against Racism: forty years on
The 1978 Rock Against Racism carnival rallied 100,000 young people against the advancing far right. What were they fighting – and why was this particular fightback so very powerful?
What’s next for the DFLA?
The Democratic Football Lads Alliance outnumbered antiracists at a march weekend, with a crowd that included hardened neo-Nazi activists. Where is the group going next?
Antisemitism, then and now | Part 1 of 2
David Rosenberg, of the Jewish Socialists’ Group, delves into the facts and the historical background of current discussions of antisemitism in Labour
“No human is illegal”: NHS staff speak out on Windrush
The Windrush scandal was the inevitable result of the “hostile environment”- we need to push back and support the rights of all migrants
Windrush and the politics of unconditional solidarity
Outrage over the treatment of the Windrush generation is welcome – but we must also reject the narrative of “good” and “bad” migrants
No community without politics
The mirage of a “mainstream Jewish community”, often weaponised against the left, hides the fact that “community” itself is always a site of struggle and contestation
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