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Obituary: Peter Thomas

In memory of the brilliant Marxist theorist and interpreter of Gramsci

Muzan Alneel and people’s power in Sudan 

Muzan Alneel and the revolutionary struggle in Sudan

book cover of the book keep going a guide to organizing when ti's hard.

Video | book launch ‘Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When it’s Hard’

Video of a discussion with the author

Three photos of Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch, and David Lammy, descending in vertical order. A pink filter has been applied over the top.

Racial Capitalist Realism in Britain

A speech from FOTO 2026 on the latest members of the bourgeoisie

Reflections on the “IS tradition”

A core text from the founding of rs21

The cover of the book superimposed on a landscape with derelict pottery kiln and buildings

Review | The breaking of the English working class

A review of Jonas Marvin’s new book on class

Kropotkin’s lifeboats: Mutual aid VS welfare chauvinism

Anyone can suffer under capitalism; no one should.

Obscene men: Manosphere Mussolinis and divorced dads

What forms does the anti-feminist counter-revolution take today?

Carceral breakdown at HMP Whitemoor

A voice from the inside confirms what we know: the prison system isn’t working

Review | A Short History of Trans Misogyny

Examining the emergence of trans misogyny, from New York and London to the British Raj and beyond

book cover of the book keep going a guide to organizing when ti's hard.

Review | Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard

A book full of good advice for organising at work and elsewhere

east London rs21 members and bus drivers at the

The climate crisis has a picket line at London’s Arriva garages

Climate change is entering the shop floor, but where is the climate movement?

The USSR and colonialism

The Soviet Union had a complex relationship with colonialism that evolved over decades

a collage of different photos associated with the democratic socialists of america. photos of AOC, Mamdani, and different protest banners with people protesting lay on top of each otehr on a red background.

Should the British left build its own DSA? Two views from rs21

The British left has little to lose, but where should it go?

The evolution of democratic centralism in the SWP

We must never again allow organisational structures to remain unchanged, unchallenged and unreviewed, as the world around us changes

Fighting Transphobia – new and updated edition

An updated version of rs21’s Fighting Transphobia pamphlet is now available

people playing football on sandy ground, with car tires as goal posts. a young man ist jumping towards the ball.

Solidarity through football

What’s next for football after the FIFA farce?

A crowd of mostly white people, all dressed in different ways. In the middle, just off to the right, there is a sign which has three options as a check boxes. It has Boy, Girl and then the third option which has been checked with a cross, which says 'Fuck You'. In the foreground stands a person with blue hot shorts and bleached hair made to stand up with product.

Maleness, femaleness, heterosexuality – sold to us by capitalism

Colin Wilson explains how capitalism makes big money selling ‘natural’ ways of life.

Infantino and Trump holding a football and smiling

Whose World Cup?

The tournament’s rot is capitalism’s, but the game belongs to us

A photo of a street in Jaywick. The houses look cheap and broken, the streets need to be fixed.

Farage in Clacton – Socialists need to build resistance everywhere

An in depth look at Clacton’s history and fighting back against Farage and the far right

Teamsters: The ghost of Jackie Presser

Report from the recent Teamsters union congress in Las Vegas

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 

Delegates applaud at Unison conference with large screens in the background

A New Era in UNISON?

A report from the rs21 Unison conference in Brighton

Video | Support the strikers at the Institute of Cancer Research

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

Andy Burnham is papering over the cracks

Socialists must be ready for new challenges under a government led by Andy Burnham

Abandoned: how Labour’s century of power came crashing down in Wales

The story behind Labour’s historic collapse in Wales

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.

The escalating crisis in English schools

Fixing the crisis in education means breaking with austerity and prioritising human need over private greed

A revolutionary transfeminism in and against our time

To confront the challenges of today, we need to revitalise the tools of Marxist-feminisms to develop more effective forms of political organisation

Unite’s General Secretary election

Who to vote for and what to do after the election