“Please boycott us!”: a report from the Ritzy’s 8th strike day
Today Ritzy workers launched their Boycott Picturehouse campaign after another successful strike day. Lois and Estelle report from the picket line:
Ritzy workers went into...
The Masters, the Pastors and those they tread on: Review of...
Jonas Liston sees important statements about Ireland's present crisis in these examinations of it's past.
Both North and South Ireland have been at the sharp...
No laughing matter! The state of comedy in Britain – Mitch’s...
In the latest instalment of his Tales From The Crypt, Mitch Mitchell takes a look at how popular comedy developed in the 1980s into...
A View from the Bridge : A modern classic stripped to...
Jack Farmer reviews a new production of Arthur Miller's play, currently running at the Young Vic
Director Ivo van Hove's production of A View from the...
Review: Comics unmasked
Adam DC reviews a new exhibition at the British Library, Comics Unmasked, which illustrates how in a period of austerity and social degeneration, the...
Behind the screens: an interview with two Curzon cinema workers
Ritzy workers in south London recently went on strike for the Living Wage, but they are by no means unique. Rs21 member, Estelle Cooch,...
‘I wouldn’t mind turning into a vermillion goldfish’ – Matisse’s cut-outs...
The latest exhibition at the Tate Modern is of the cut-outs created by Henri Matisse in his later years. Mitch Mitchell shares his thoughts.
Matisse...
Gabriel García Márquez: magic and memory
Mike Gonzalez writes
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, who has died aged 87, was a globally recognised name even before he won his Nobel Prize in literature on 8 December 1982....
Film review: Starred Up
What gives the prison film its tension is a dynamic between trapped, animalistic energy and the dream of liberty.
Short Story: Fresh Apricots
Fresh Apricots' first appeared in Dancing in Damascus, a book of short stories that was also published in Arabic and Turkish. It's about surveillance and the political prisons in Syria under Hafiz al Assad.
Latest articles
On the dissolution of the ISO
The US-based International Socialist Organization (ISO) has recently voted to dissolve itself. The rs21 Steering Group has collectively compiled the following piece in response.
We have to overthrow the system that is eating the planet
Mark Winter was present at the climate change protests in London on 19 April and reports on the sentiments and strategies of Extinction Rebellion (XR) as the group seeks to keep concerns about climate change at the forefront of public discourse.
NEU battles ahead – report from NEU conference
The first NEU conference set an ambitious course for boycotts and strikes over primary school testing, funding and pay, report rs21 delegates.
revolutionary reflections | Popular struggle in Indonesia: the spirit of Bandung
Following the recent Indonesian elections, in which the incumbent Jokowi defeated a descendent of the dictator Suharto, Frans Ari Prasetyo discusses the contradictions of the Jokowi government’s dependence on the World Bank and local capitalists.
Sudan’s revolutionary crisis
The revolution in Sudan gathers pace. Magdi el Gizouli analyses the contradictions at heart of the revolutionary crisis and what institutions and the social forces that will be necessary to resolve them.
The climate rebellion continues
Extinction Rebellion activists have held Waterloo Bridge in Central London for a second day (on Tuesday 16 April), as part of an international wave of protests calling for action on climate change.
Hope and tragedy in April 1919
The Limerick Soviet (13 - 27 April 1919) was one manifestation of a wave of revolutionary crises that confronted British imperialism in the aftermath of WWI.
Review: Green Growth
Stephen Graham reviews Green growth: Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives
To the climate strikers: thank you for teaching us a lesson
A message of thanks to the youth strikers taking to the streets to demand action on climate change around the world again today.
Join the climate strikes tomorrow
Tomorrow (Friday 12 April), there will be another wave of youth strikes for climate across the UK and the world.
Highlights
revolutionary reflections | ‘Green capitalism’: a critical review (Part I)
Today, hundreds of thousands of young people around the world have been taking part in climate strikes. Stephen Graham dissects the discourses of sustainability, Green capitalism and the Green economy.
The Communist Women’s Movement
As we mark International Women's Day (8 March), Estelle Cooch talks Darya Dyakonova and Mike Taber about the history of the Communist Women's Movement (1920-22).
revolutionary reflections | Notes on Capital and the State: part 3
In the concluding part of our serialisation of his 1978 essay on the state in capitalist society, Colin Barker considers the theory of the Permanent Arms Economy.
LGBT History in 21 pieces of music
For LGBT History Month, Colin Wilson presents a history of queer music in 21 tracks.
Yellow vests: Macron’s fuel tax was no solution to climate chaos
Why Macron's 'eco-tax' on fuel was never a fair or effective way to tackle climate change