50 years from May ‘68, students in France are mobilising again
France is again in the midst of a wave of intense social action, with universities disrupted for months and mass arrests in Mayday protests.
Remember the dead, fight for the living
A video from an event in Manchester to mark International Workers Memorial Day
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.
“They can never stop the spring”: France in 2018
Fifty years after the 1968 uprisings, social struggles are flaring up in France once again following attacks on workers and universities
University picket lines – a place of learning
Footage from Goldsmiths college picket line where staff and students talk about their experience of striking so far.
Video: what is rank-and-file trade unionism?
Ian Allinson looks at rank-and-file worker organisation - the alternative to a reliance on bureaucrats to cut deals with management.
Read the new bulletin on the UCU strike!
Introducing USS Strike Bulletin, a collaborative online project exploring the bigger questions around neoliberalism in Higher Education.
Update: what’s new in the UCU strike?
We look at the latest developments in the wave of strikes that has taken employers by surprise across the higher education system.
A critical week lies ahead in the West Virginia teachers’ strike
The West Virginia teachers' strike marks the return of the mass strike to the US in 2018.
Justice for the eight comrades
Chinese leftists are facing state repression for standing with the country’s working class.
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