Jan Baykara, Daire Ní Chnáimh, and Pete Cannell offer a Scottish perspective on the value of the new party opportunity. revsoc21.uk/2025/09/29/a...

On the eve of Labour’s conference, Pat Stack reviews Mark Perryman’s essay collection on Starmer’s betrayals and his party’s deepening crisis. revsoc21.uk/2025/09/26/r...

Zohran Mamdani’s win in the Democratic primary for New York mayor demonstrates the strength of organised socialist campaigning. Samuel Kelly speaks with NYC-DSA organisers about the work that made it possible. revsoc21.uk/2025/09/24/i...

Following their speech at rs21’s Festival of the Oppressed, Jaice Titus speaks to Elaliberta about race and Marxism. revsoc21.uk/2025/09/23/i...

Most buses in Greater Manchester have been cancelled as coordinated strikes have hit eight depots of three bus companies. Greater Manchester rs21 members report on the first major strike since Andy Burnham launched the franchised Bee Network. revsoc21.uk/2025/09/20/s...

In the third part of his series DK Renton explains why fighting oppression is central to rs21’s politics. revsoc21.uk/2025/09/19/w...

rs21 members report on Saturdays huge march in London, analyse its roots and consider how the left can challenge and defeat the rise of the far right. revsoc21.uk/2025/09/17/r...

Under the right conditions, a spark can start a prairie fire. Protests against a social media in Nepal ban grew into a full blown uprising after police killed 19 protesters. Alex de Jong asks what’s next? revsoc21.uk/2025/09/15/n...

As Macron’s government faces yet another crisis, the Bloquons tout movement has brought students, workers and activists together in blockades and strikes across France. Some rs21 members joined the actions and report back from the ground revsoc21.uk/2025/09/13/b...

In the second part of a five part series on what we mean by revolutionary socialism., DK Renton explains that workers remain central to capitalism and can overthrow it. revsoc21.uk/2025/09/12/t...

Your Party has sparked a wave of excitement on the left. To succeed it must break with the weight of Labourism, argue Jonny Jones and Jaice Titus, in the first of a two-part series. revsoc21.uk/2025/09/10/y...

Jan B reflects on the first ‘Your Party’ public meeting in Glasgow.

The nature of the threats from racism and fascism has changed in the last few years. Strategies to oppose them need to change too, argues Colin Wilson. revsoc21.uk/2025/08/26/r...

rs21 member and UNISON activist Ian Allinson argues that the General Secretary election in UNISON is a key battle for the whole left, particularly in the context of intensifying debates over unions’ relationships with the Labour Party. revsoc21.uk/2025/08/19/a...

Kika Hendry reviews the new translation of Leopoldina Fortunati’s The Arcana of Reproduction, a key text that, fifty years on, still exposes how domestic life sustains capitalism and speaks urgently to our experiences of labour, care and survival. revsoc21.uk/2025/08/18/r...

Strikes in the hotel industry are rare. Tony Boardman spoke to workers on the Glasgow Village Hotel picket line. revsoc21.uk/2025/08/15/v...

Alex Stoffel (@stoffelalex.bsky.social) traces how liberal narratives that once instrumentalised LGBTQ+ rights as markers of modernity have given way to a resurgent right-wing politics, where sexuality becomes a site of fear, control and civilisational anxiety. revsoc21.uk/2025/08/14/e...

Elsie Furie looks at the resignation of Labour MP Rushanara Ali, and argues that having landlords in the role of homelessness minister is always a mistake. revsoc21.uk/2025/08/12/l...

Following weeks of increasingly large fascist demonstrations in Epping, east London rs21 mobilised alongside others for an anti-fascist bloc on Sunday 27 July. Fraser Amos reflects on some shared lessons comrades drew for the anti-fascist movement. revsoc21.uk/2025/08/10/a...

David L takes a critical look at video games and asks whether there can be a left-wing gaming culture. revsoc21.uk/2025/08/08/v...

Unite members, including many employed in arms factories, have successfully challenged their leadership’s refusal to support action against Britain’s supply of arms to Israel. revsoc21.uk/2025/08/06/u...

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BC Hamilton analyses the limitations of Zohran Mamdani’s run for NYC Mayor and his larger project of reforming the Democratic Party from within and also the struggles and social movements that have allowed a candidate like Mamdani to take center stage revsoc21.uk/2025/08/04/t...

At rs21’s Festival of the Oppressed event, Timor Edwin‘s talk argued that any serious anti-capitalist politics must take anti-border politics seriously. revsoc21.uk/2025/07/29/w...

Years of transphobic attacks – in the last year from the Labour government and the courts – have led to a historically unprecedented mobilisation revsoc21.uk/2025/07/28/l...

With Labour’s grip on Wales weakening, SC Cook examines the social and political forces behind its declining support and how new movements might shape the future. revsoc21.uk/2025/07/27/i...

Many on the left look to a strategy of electing left leaders, including left union leaders. But events of a hundred years ago show that organising from below, in workplaces and communities, wins much more. revsoc21.uk/2025/07/25/r...

Max Shanley outlines his perspectives on a framework for the new left party revsoc21.uk/2025/07/24/b...

Zarah Sultana’s resignation from the Labour Party has brought the burning question of a new leftwing political formation right to the very centre stage of everyone’s minds. What does socialist practice mean in the event of a new leftwing party? revsoc21.uk/2025/07/22/t...

The rs21 steering group reports on the outcomes of the organisation’s discussions on the new left party. revsoc21.uk/2025/07/20/r...

Shirley M reports on how South Norwood Community Kitchen is building mutual aid power from the ground up. revsoc21.uk/2025/07/14/b...

The policy conference of Unite the Union has backed the bin workers and is questioning the union’s support for Labour. revsoc21.uk/2025/07/12/b...

Jean Urquhart reviews The Shetland Way which explores the impact of a mega onshore wind project on Shetland’s society and natural environment. revsoc21.uk/2025/07/11/r...

Hampstead Heath Constabulary escalated crackdowns on a yearly George Michael Memorial Party following last year’s support for Palestine. James Holland reports and explores the importance of politicised queer joy. revsoc21.uk/2025/07/09/q...

In the opening plenary for rs21's Festival of the Oppressed JS Titus argued for a 'Marxism that refuses to treat race as a distraction from class, or as a mere ideological supplement'. revsoc21.uk/2025/07/07/s...

In this closing address from rs21’s Festival of the Oppressed event, Jonny Jones considers the disjointed times we are living through, the relationship between exploitation and oppression, and asks what the alternatives to an age of catastrophe are. revsoc21.uk/2025/07/04/p...

Bringing together over 300 comrades across two days of panels, workshops, and political discussions, rs21’s first Festival of the Oppressed created a collective space to investigate how oppression is grounded in Marxist politics: revsoc21.uk/2025/07/02/d...

Jonas Marvin asks ‘what are the effective organising practices, stories, transitional demands, or non-reformist reforms, to get us from the moment we currently occupy, to the free social world we want to live in?’ revsoc21.uk/2025/06/30/h...

Shanice McBean explains that minority groups are being given crumbs to build consent for Labour's authoritarian Crime & Policing Bill; meanwhile left media outlets like Novara, trade unions, and left wing MPs are silent. revsoc21.uk/2025/06/27/a...

rs21’s statement on the proposed proscription of Palestine Action. revsoc21.uk/2025/06/26/w...

You can read the article I wrote on the recent riots in the north of Ireland here.

In early June rioting broke out in Ballymena in the north of Ireland. Mark F writes about the racism which has always been part of loyalist political culture, now finding a parallel in anti-immigrant racism in the South. revsoc21.uk/2025/06/25/f...

revsoc21.uk/2025/06/21/r... The first of review of Red Flags is here! thanks to @rs21.bsky.social for this insightful review.

The lives and political activity of Czech refugees from Nazism in Britain in 1930s were complicated by British government hostility, but also by the zigzags of Communist politics dictated by the Soviet Union. Merilyn Moos reviews a book about the Czech Refugee Trust Fund: revsoc21.uk/2025/06/23/r...

had a great morning at @rs21.bsky.social Festival of the Oppressed going to panel discussions about abolitionism and disability, capitalism & resistance. Sad I couldn't stay longer.

If we’re to build the revolutionary left today, we need to reject the idea that regimes like the Soviet Union or Maoist China were socialist. Pete Cannell reviews a new book about ‘actually existing socialism’. revsoc21.uk/2025/06/21/r...

To end capitalism we need revolution, and to win revolution we need a revolutionary organisation. Developing that requires political clarity - on which ideas are most effective, through debate and practice. A group of rs21 members respond to Marxist Unity Caucus. revsoc21.uk/2025/06/19/h...

As Keir Starmer’s Labour Party evokes the rhetoric of the racist MP Enoch Powell’s 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, Pat Stack details how their backwards immigration policy both is more the same and a break from the previous governments revsoc21.uk/2025/06/17/l...

Israel began missile strikes on Iran on Friday. @colinwlondon.bsky.social looks at the background to the attacks and the rationale behind them, and Starmer’s response. revsoc21.uk/2025/06/15/i...

Hundreds of thousands of people have joined protests against the increasingly repressive Turkish government since March, following the trumped-up arrest of an opposition politician. A Turkish socialist writes from Istanbul. revsoc21.uk/2025/06/14/a...