After a hopeful start in 2022, Gustavo Petro’s leftist Colombian government has run into major obstacles from economic elites. But the powerful mobilizations that brought
A recent fake controversy stoked by right-wing forces on Chicago’s city council led to socialist alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa losing two key positions. The antics would
Zionism emerged in response to 19th-century European antisemitism — but its aims in Palestine drew upon Western colonial ideologies. To present the current conflict as
US billionaires are trying to establish a libertarian city-state in Honduras to evade democratic constraints. As progressive president Xiomara Castro resists their efforts, the Peter
Last week’s autumn statement was widely seen as the opening of the Tories’ general election campaign. rs21 member Jonas Marvin asks whether the Tories have
Pro-Palestine “Block the Boat” actions, where dockworkers block the transport of arms to Israel, have proliferated in recent years. Recalling actions against apartheid South Africa,
Israel is murdering journalists at an unprecedented rate in an attempt to hide its massacre in Gaza — the Palestinians risking their lives to expose
For several years, California has had a rule requiring three days of backup power at many telecom sites in areas with high fire danger, to
Calls for a general strike usually skip over the hard work of organizing one. But UAW leader Shawn Fain is urging unions to align their
Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executes Viet Cong Captain Nguyễn Văn Lém. The brutality of the US and its allies only heightened opposition to the war A
Critics of Marxism say it cannot explain why nationalism is such a powerful force in the modern world. But the Austrian socialist thinker Otto Bauer
Over 1,000 people took to the streets in Amsterdam against discrimination and Wilders the day after the elections Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party won
Earlier this month, Maine’s voters rejected a referendum for publicly owned energy after a disinformation campaign led by the energy lobby. But in the US,
Across the UK and the US, a wave of repression is muzzling pro-Palestine speech, especially from Muslim and Arab writers and artists. But Palestinian voices
Direct action, blockades, rank and file organising? All three? An rs21 arms worker on how the Palestine solidarity movement could work most effectively to stop the
Protesters on the Palestine march in London (Picture: Stop The War) At least 300,000 people marched for Palestine in London on Saturday, a magnificent turnout
Frantz Fanon at a press conference during a writers’ conference in Tunis in 1959 Since Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza, many people have been trying
Israel’s war on Gaza has sent shock waves echoing throughout the Middle East. Mohamed Naeem, an Egyptian socialist activist, talks about the war’s impact and
The ratio of CEO pay to worker pay is almost 300 to 1. Are we really supposed to believe CEOs work 300 times harder or
Argentina is reeling after self-styled anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei won its November 19 presidential election. Milei combines the worst elements of the global far right with
In May December, a narcissistic actress gets the role of her dreams: playing a woman who slept with, got pregnant by, and later married a
Police attack Stockport Messenger strikers in 1983 (Picture: John Sturrock) Forty years ago the Tories, bosses and the police used what seemed a minor industrial
Students walk out for Palestine in Birmingham Hundreds of school and university students across Britain have joined walkouts and protests in solidarity with Palestine. Around
While the election victory of Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders is being treated as a shock, his rise was long in the making. For years,
Jeff Bezos pledged four years ago that Amazon would lead the way on carbon reduction. Since then, the firm’s emissions have risen by 40 percent
Camp Kinderland is a socialist summer camp in New York that has been going strong for 100 years. As a new documentary shows, it’s an
Migration is positive. The NHS could not survive without migrants and the descendants of migrants (Picture: Guy Smallman) The Tories and Labour want to paint
Palantir boss Peter Thiel (Picture: Gage Skidmore on Flickr) NHS bosses will hand patient data to a US spy tech firm founded by a Donald
There were strikes at eight further education colleges last week (Pic: Jenny Sutton) Further education colleges in England fight over pay Workers at eight colleges
Wars and oppression in the Middle East and North Africa are a product of centuries of colonial and imperial domination by Western powers. Eleanor Morley
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