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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century
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Ecosocialist. Feminist. Anti-racist. We are a Marxist organisation with branches around Britain.

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Shiraz Hussain reviews Jules Gill-Peterson’s book, which shows that the trans panic has not always been with us: it was invented.

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Review | A Short History of Trans Misogyny
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September 16, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Leslie Cunningham lays out some of the shortcomings and tensions beneath the militant surface of Sharon Graham’s leadership of Unite, and argues for a renewed rank and file militancy.

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Silence won’t save us
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September 14, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Joe Allen reflects on his experiences as a worker in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, and how even in the haze of militarism, resistance is possible.

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Working at UPS During 9–11 and After: Looking Back 25 Years Later
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September 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM
A worker at East London Foundation Trust and a Unite rep, Jane R gives an overview of the fightback against job cuts in the health system
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Fighting the ELFT job cuts: A view from the frontline
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September 9, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Activist and author Ian Allinson recommends the latest book from Labor Notes. Author Ellen David Friedman has packed it full of good advice for organising at work and elsewhere.

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Review | Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard
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September 7, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Gareth Dale analyses the inner workings of internal colonialism and its history across the 20th century.

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Internal colonialism
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September 4, 2026 at 7:07 AM
This obituary in memory of our much-loved comrade Brian Parkin was compiled by Edinburgh rs21 members with contributions from Charlie Hore and Jonny Jones.

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Obituary: Brian Parkin 10 May 1947 – 12 August 2026
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September 3, 2026 at 7:26 AM
rs21 members joined the picket at Stamford Hill garage and found a strike that sits squarely at the intersection of workers’ rights and the climate crisis, with the climate movement nowhere to be seen. Join us for our next visit this week!

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The climate crisis has a picket line at London’s Arriva garages
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September 1, 2026 at 12:32 PM
In the third article of Against Modern Football, Republica Internationale FC members condemn the ban of transgender people and argue for an inclusive alternative through radical autonomous DIY clubs and leagues.
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By-elections weaken Johnson – pay strikes can kick him out
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August 31, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Gareth Dale looks at the capitalism form of time, and the forms of temporality destroyed by Western colonization.

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Coloniality and Time
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August 29, 2026 at 7:55 AM
In Leo Zeilig's new novel, the main characters are invited to 'The Winter Circus', the heart of a liberated space where futures are waiting to be born.

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Review | The Winter Circus: A Memoir by Leo Zeilig
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August 26, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Gareth Dale looks at the Soviet Union’s complex and ambiguous relationship with imperialism and colonialism.
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The USSR and colonialism
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August 20, 2026 at 11:39 AM
The 5th August marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Eric Clapton gig to which Red Saunders responded with the letter that started everything. DK Renton recalls those beginnings here.

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Fifty years of Rock Against Racism
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August 17, 2026 at 7:51 AM
In this speech from Festival of the Oppressed 2026, Sylvia M asks what feminist strategy and mobilisation should look like for revolutionary socialists, and what it would take to build a socialist feminism that liberates all

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What socialists feminists owe each other
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August 12, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Wing L compares the 1905 defeat of Russia at Port Arthur to the Strait of Hormuz, asking us to consider the implications for both the US, and Iran.

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Echoes of 1905
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August 10, 2026 at 7:42 AM
In this opening speech for rs21’s Festival of the Oppressed event in London on June 20th, Harry Holmes lays out the grim future ahead, the alternatives we must build, and the politics of freedom we must reclaim.

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Disorienting Times
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August 7, 2026 at 7:31 AM
In this talk, given at rs21’s Festival of the Oppressed event in London, DK Renton explores the possibilities of Health Communism as imagined by Alexandra Kollontai.

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A Communist anticipates … Health Communism
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August 5, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Robert Chapman writes on the cynical use of neurodivergence by the Far Right, laying out how it happened and how to fight it.
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The Far Right’s Embrace of Neurodivergence
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August 3, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Workers from the Institute of Cancer Research are into their ninth week of strike action, demanding pay restoration from a CEO on a nearly half-a-million-pound annual salary. rs21 West London members have written a short overview of their struggle.

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Cancer Researchers on Strike in West London
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August 1, 2026 at 8:01 AM
The Democratic Socialists of America have shown impressive growth and influence in the last couple of years. rs21 members Rob Owen and Vik Chechi-Ribero discuss the DSA model.

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Should the British left build its own DSA? Two views from rs21
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July 29, 2026 at 7:50 AM
The third edition of rs21’s pamphlet on Fighting Transphobia is now available. This is an edited version of the introduction by Lotta P, a trans-feminist activist and rs21 member.

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July 27, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Core Texts is an rs21 publication series of our organisation’s foundational texts.

We must never again allow organisational structures to remain unchanged, unchallenged and unreviewed, as the world around us changes.

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The evolution of democratic centralism in the SWP
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July 27, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Charlie W recounts the history of football as a radical sport of the masses and argues for its subversive potential even in the face of FIFA corruption and geopolitical manipulation.
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Solidarity through football
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July 24, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Earlier this year, United Farm Workers founder César Chávez was accused of sexual abuse. But this problem goes beyond one man, as Mara writes.
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Sí, ya puede hablar: The UFW and Abuse
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July 22, 2026 at 10:05 AM