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Resist the crackdown on demonstrations
The lockdown has ended but the crackdown on protests goes on and on. We need to share skills and solidarity to resist police repression.
‘The fight of our lives’ | Interview with Marian Mayer
Marian Mayer, candidate for Vice President of UCU, spoke to rs21 about the fightback in the higher and further education sectors
Review: The Covid-19 Catastrophe
Stacey Williams reviews The Covid-19 Catastrophe, by leading UK medical writer Richard Horton
Interview: Organised and disorganised labour in the Belarus uprising
Siarhei Biareishyk speaks to rs21 about the uprising in Belarus following the falsified re-election of Aliaksandr Lukashenka on 9 August 2020.
Fascism beyond Trump
Historical comparisons can lead to unhelpful conclusions if not used carefully
Interview: Beirut blast exposed a global system
Rima Majed spoke to rs21 about the blast that devastated Beirut in the context of an existing political and economic crisis.
Reopening schools is bad science
Mike Downham explains the poor science behind the government plans for schools reopening.
Interview: Neighbourhood organising in Edinburgh
Activists in Edinburgh share their experiences of fighting to save lives, save jobs, and save the planet within a local community hit by Covid-19.
Review: Radical Happiness
Lynne Segal’s most recent work, Radical Happiness, addresses the relationship between political action and personal fulfilment.
Tik Tok: is time running out for Tory style education?
Ava -
Ava, a sixth form student, describes how she helped to instigate the protests last weekend which led to the government U-turn.
Highlights
Interview: Organised and disorganised labour in the Belarus uprising
Siarhei Biareishyk speaks to rs21 about the uprising in Belarus following the falsified re-election of Aliaksandr Lukashenka on 9 August 2020.
Interview: Beirut blast exposed a global system
Rima Majed spoke to rs21 about the blast that devastated Beirut in the context of an existing political and economic crisis.
Review: Fortunes of Feminism
Leslie Cunningham reviews Fortunes of Feminism by Nancy Fraser, a critical account of changes in feminist thought in the era of neo-liberalism.
Post-war to post-industrial Scotland
Successive British governments have restructured the Scottish economy in damaging ways. Now we need a radical plan for a de-carbonised and independent Scotland.
Johnson’s bonanza for private capital
The Tories are increasing spending, but the money is going to the rich. Adam Blanden argues that this represents the acceleration of Britain’s transformation into a ‘speculator state’.




















Labour was a party that was set up directly to challenge the unquestioned right of the upper echelons, the aristocracy, big business, connected types to do what the hell they liked, and latterly the Middle class who now have attained the same position today as the upper echelons had a hundred years ago. The heart of Labour are the aspirations of ‘ordinary’ people to get on, prosper and move up the social scale. Indeed, the heart of progressive modern democracies is social mobility. Without that, even wealthy societies stagnate, deteriorate and become one party states like America et al. Basically capitalism extreme right or very centre right. The inference now being that socialism of any kind is to be sneered at and dismissed. Isn’t it also ironic that basic issues like social justice, a living wage, workers rights, free speech, the right to organise and resist unfair government policies are always seen as ‘socialism’ or ‘left wing’? More propaganda very carefully spun and weaved from the divisive and duplicitous.
We need, even if the so called Middle class London chattering class dominated Left won’t, to openly debate these issues, and why when the talk of anti racism and equality are never far from the lips or the ‘agendas’ of the Left elite in London, things have never been so bad and economically divided for nearly a hundred years? The so called anti racist movements and equality movements are at worst merely a smokescreen by the media and other Fabian socialists to excuse and pursue a policy of Americanised capitalism on Britain. And that system is basically thus: A rich out of touch elite who do not pay tax, a completely servile, emasculated and apolitical Middle class who collude via the media and other institutions with the rich and the powerful as long as they get the good careers and assured futures and use the media to disseminate right wing ideology, and the poor are basically left to fight for the crumbs and survive the onslaught of class and other prejudices carefully and not so carefully breathed out from a media that is now basically bought and sold by the wealthy and the establishment like in the US.