Feel free to join an online meeting that is convenient for you – even if hosted elsewhere in the country.
Some local rs21 groups are also having weekly informal online meetings to catch up. For example, comrades in Leicester are meeting every Tuesday, Scotland meet at 8pm every Tuesday and Manchester meet 9pm every Thursday. Contact local groups for details.
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June 2020
rs21 national members’ meeting
Our regular opportunity for discussion, decision-making and elections has moved online.
Find out more »Should socialists support Universal Basic Income?
Join rs21 members for an open discussion on Universal Basic Income.
Find out more »Revolution at Point Zero – reading group
Join this reading group for the Silvia Federici essay 'Reproducing Commons', which is the third and final part of her book 'Revolution at Point Zero'.
Find out more »Covid-19 and the racism of the state
Join this discussion on the relationship between state racism, the healthcare system and the Coronavirus. Speakers will include health campaigner and activist with the Sudan Doctor's Union - UK, Marwa Gibril, and a health worker from ‘Docs Not Cops’ a group that campaigns against immigration controls in the NHS.
Find out more »Intro to Marxist economics
Want to get your head around Marxist economics? Register via zoom for this group to read and discuss Marx's "Value, Price and Profit".
Find out more »July 2020
Capital and the State
To follow up on our discussion of The Ruling Class Does Not Rule by Fred Block (https://jacobinmag.com/2020/4/ruling-class-capitalist-state-reform-theory) we will discuss part one of Colin Barker's essay Notes on Capital and the State https://www.rs21.org.uk/2019/01/25/revolutionary-reflections-notes-on-capital-and-the-state-part-1/. In this essay Colin takes as his starting point Marx and Engel's writings on the state, which are primarily found in their writings on contemporary political events, and goes on to look at how the state might alternatively be analysed using the analysis of capitalist society Marx…
Find out more »Reading Black skin, white masks
We are reading the first three chapters of Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks, about the dehumanizing effects of racism and colonialism.
Find out more »Remembering Neil Davidson (1957-2020)
Join comrades and friends in an online event to remember Neil Davidson who died on 3 May 2020. Neil was a socialist militant and a highly innovative Marxist historian and sociologist, a member of rs21, a prominent figure in the Scottish left and a lecturer at Glasgow University.
Find out more »Climate, coronavirus and capitalism
Join this public discussion for anyone wanting to discuss or deepen their understanding of the connections between the climate crisis, coronavirus and capitalism, based around Andreas Malm's recent interview in Jacobin.
Find out more »Reading Black Skin, White Masks part 2
We will be discussing chapters 4, 5 and 6 of Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks, about the dehumanizing effects of racism and colonialism.
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