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Workers for a Free Palestine: organising against the genocide 

Worker outreach is an essential part of anti-militarist strategy, confronting Zionism and rebuilding the left

Why anti-border politics is class struggle

Opposition to borders is central to class struggle and anti-capitalist politics

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.

Is this the end of Labour in Wales?

What are the forces behind Labour’s decline in Wales and how can new movements might shape it?

Striking workers, 1926

Red Friday – why workplace organising outdoes left union officials

The build-up to the 1926 General Strike highlights the dangers of a strategy based on left-wing union leaders.

Building from below

Draft perspectives on a framework for the foundation of the new left party

Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn

The rocky road to power: notes on a new left

A new left party is on the cards. What strategy should the left pursue?

rs21 and the new left party

rs21 members discussed the potential new left party at an All Members Assembly

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.

Death to the IDF! Long live punk!

Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury set signals a revival of punk’s radical political roots.

Building power on the ground

Building grass roots mutual aid in South Norwood

5 sites, 1 day - 6am, 25 July - Birmingham - B'ham Bin Workers Megapicket 2

Birmingham bin strike: show your support against Labour’s austerity

The bin workers are standing up to Labour’s austerity policies – support this crucial strike.

Wind turbine near Lerwick

Review | The Shetland Way

Who benefits from the development of mega scale onshore wind on Shetland?

Party goers smash a Tesla pinata

Queer joy and support for Palestine face police harassment

The annual George Michael Memorial Party faced a police crackdown last month, after its support for Palestine last year.

Stretching Marxism

We stretch Marxism not to dilute it but to deepen it.

People hold pink umbrellas reading Stop Arming Israel and a banner reading Politics is Broken.

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

Woman hods placard that says Can We Breathe Now

Hammer and heart: four theses on abolitionist communism

The connections between abolition, communism and organising for liberation

Authoritarianism with a dash of identity politics: the crime and policing bill

If passed the Crime and Policing Bill will limit human rights and the right to privacy from the state

We are all Palestine Action

rs21’s statement on the proposed proscription of Palestine Action.

UVF mural in Belfast

From Ballymena to Coolock – anti-immigrant protests in Ireland

Racism has always been part of unionism – now racist protests are gaining a foothold in the South.

Review | Lifeline to Freedom

Leftist Czech refugees to Britain in the 1930s had to cope with hostility from the British government, but also the zigzags of the Communist line laid down in Moscow.

Review | Red Flags

A new book distinguishes the liberation of October 1917 from state repression under Stalin and Mao.

How do we build revolutionary organisation?

What kind of revolutionary organisation do we need and how can we build it?

A picture of Keir Starmer at the World Economic Forum.

Labour and immigration

Keir Starmer’s Labour seems inspired by Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech

Israel’s new barbarity

The background to Israel’s new attacks on Iran

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.

Woman grins, baring teeth, her mouth and chin covered in blood.

Review | Sinners

Ryan Coogler’s film is a Southern Gothic tale of vampires and race.

Large fire burning on the street

The battle of Los Angeles: the first weekend

American socialists report from the streets of California.

Reflections on organising in the retail sector

A look back at a 2022 dispute involving USDAW staff who were members of the GMB union