Some reflections on #MeToo
While #MeToo has seen countless people speak out about sexual violence and harassment, it has also revealed difficulties in building the means of confronting them.
A Farewell to Omelas: remembering Ursula Le Guin
Writer Ursula Le Guin, who died on 22 January aged 88, overturned notions of what Science Fiction should be about.
The total Marx and the total theory of literature
A lost gem of Marxist aesthetic theory, out of print for over forty years.
Music helps us struggle for a better world
Amy Downham is inspired by a recent book about music and politics.
I met Dave Randall a few years ago on an antiracism march. I had recently joined rs21 in search of reassurance that I wasn’t alone in...
Images of Russia from liberation to oppression
Steve Eason reviews Red Star Over Russia and Not Everyone will be Taken into the Future by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, both at Tate Modern.
Through the looking glass darkly: a review of Blade Runner 2049
Science Fiction has a way of questioning our position in the world: by imagining the future we imagine the present. In this piece Jozef Doyle assesses the refraction of late capitalist society through Blade Runner 2019...
There is no revolution without love
The film Reds tells the story of John Reed and Louise Bryant's experiences of the Russian Revolution.
Reviewing BBC Radio 4’s coverage of the Russian revolution
Martin Crook analyses the presentation of the Russian revolution by the BBC, questioning the accuracy of a review that blames the revolution for the sins of Stalinism.
The Death of Stalin: first as tragedy, then as farce
Estelle Cooch reviews Armando Iannucci's latest film, The Death of Stalin
Atlas Shrugged: the world’s most boring cult novel
Finn Lees of Leeds rs21 revisits Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged 60 years after its publication, arguing that it is not the tool of bourgeois propaganda that many think it is.
On 10 October 1957 Random...