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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 26/09/2026
In this republished article from before rs21 was founded as an independent organisation in 2014, Rob Owen criticises the SWP’s trajectory over the past few years. revsoc21.uk/2026/09/26/r...
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Revolutionary organisation and the united front
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 23/09/2026
Nigel C. Gibson revisits Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary thought in light of the Sudanese revolution and its counter-revolution. revsoc21.uk/2026/09/23/f...
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Fanon’s continuing presence and revolutionary Sudan
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 18/09/2026
Educators in rs21 say this year’s pay rise from the government isn’t enough, argue for more industrial action, and put forward the case for the 4:20s: concrete demands that truly deal with the crisis in education revsoc21.uk/2026/09/18/m...
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More of the same won’t save education: why extra funding is only a partial victory
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 18/09/2026
An anonymous HMP Whitemoor Prisoner exposes the reality of the British prison system, and criticises both prisoner governors and the Prison Officers Association (POA) revsoc21.uk/2026/09/18/c...
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Carceral breakdown at HMP Whitemoor
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 18/09/2026
An anonymous HMP Whitemoor Prisoner exposes the reality of the British prison system, and criticises both prisoner governors and the Prison Officers Association (POA) revsoc21.uk/2026/09/18/c...
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Carceral breakdown at HMP Whitemoor
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 16/09/2026
Shiraz Hussain reviews Jules Gill-Peterson’s book, which shows that the trans panic has not always been with us: it was invented. revsoc21.uk/2026/09/16/r...
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Review | A Short History of Trans Misogyny
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 14/09/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/09/14/s...
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Silence won’t save us
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 14/09/2026
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Silence won’t save us
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 12/09/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/09/12/w...
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Working at UPS During 9–11 and After: Looking Back 25 Years Later
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 09/09/2026
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 revsoc21.uk/2026/09/09/f...
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Fighting the ELFT job cuts: A view from the frontline
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 07/09/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/09/07/r...
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Review | Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 04/09/2026
Gareth Dale analyses the inner workings of internal colonialism and its history across the 20th century. revsoc21.uk/2026/09/04/i...
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Internal colonialism
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 03/09/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/09/03/o...
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Obituary: Brian Parkin 10 May 1947 – 12 August 2026
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 01/09/2026
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! revsoc21.uk/2026/09/01/t...
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The climate crisis has a picket line at London’s Arriva garages
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 31/08/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/08/31/d...
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By-elections weaken Johnson – pay strikes can kick him out
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 29/08/2026
Gareth Dale looks at the capitalism form of time, and the forms of temporality destroyed by Western colonization. revsoc21.uk/2026/08/29/c...
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Coloniality and Time
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 26/08/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/08/26/r...
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Review | The Winter Circus: A Memoir by Leo Zeilig
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 20/08/2026
Gareth Dale looks at the Soviet Union’s complex and ambiguous relationship with imperialism and colonialism. revsoc21.uk/2026/08/20/t...
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The USSR and colonialism
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 17/08/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/08/17/f...
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Fifty years of Rock Against Racism
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 12/08/2026
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 revsoc21.uk/2026/08/12/w...
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What socialists feminists owe each other
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 10/08/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/08/10/e...
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Echoes of 1905
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 07/08/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/08/07/d...
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Disorienting Times
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 05/08/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/08/05/a...
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A Communist anticipates … Health Communism
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 03/08/2026
Robert Chapman writes on the cynical use of neurodivergence by the Far Right, laying out how it happened and how to fight it. revsoc21.uk/2026/08/03/t...
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The Far Right’s Embrace of Neurodivergence
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 01/08/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/08/01/c...
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Cancer Researchers on Strike in West London
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 29/07/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/07/29/s...
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Should the British left build its own DSA? Two views from rs21
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 27/07/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/07/26/f...
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 27/07/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/07/27/t...
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The evolution of democratic centralism in the SWP
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 24/07/2026
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. revsoc21.uk/2026/07/24/s...
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Solidarity through football
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 22/07/2026
Earlier this year, United Farm Workers founder César Chávez was accused of sexual abuse. But this problem goes beyond one man, as Mara writes. revsoc21.uk/2026/07/22/s...
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Sí, ya puede hablar: The UFW and Abuse
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 20/07/2026
The right tells us that certain ways of life are natural. Yet capitalism makes big money selling the surgeries and pills that make these “natural” lives possible, as Colin Wilson explain. revsoc21.uk/2026/07/20/m...
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Maleness, femaleness, heterosexuality – sold to us by capitalism
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 16/07/2026
In this first article of a series Against Modern Football, Sam O argues that the corruption and authoritarianism surrounding the World Cup are expressions of how capitalism exploits the game – and that the terraces remain a site of political struggle. revsoc21.uk/2026/07/16/w...
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Whose World Cup?
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 13/07/2026
This is an adapted version of a speech Rachel Eborall gave at the Festival of the Oppressed 2026. Rachel Eborrall argues that socialists can and must fight for the people of Clacton and against the far right revsoc21.uk/2026/07/13/f...
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Farage in Clacton– Socialists need to build resistance everywhere
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 11/07/2026
Joe Allen reports on the recent Teamsters union congress in Las Vegas and considers the possibilities for a revival of the rank and file. revsoc21.uk/2026/07/11/t...
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Teamsters: The Ghost of Jackie Presser
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 09/07/2026
Ashley Smith reviews the state of the American resistance against Trump and argues that only mass working-class struggle and a new workers’ party, not reliance on Democrats, can defeat him and the system that produced him. revsoc21.uk/2026/07/09/t...
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The State of the Resistance in Trump’s America 
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 07/07/2026
An rs21 Unison member reports back on the recent Unison conference. revsoc21.uk/2026/07/07/a...
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A New Era in UNISON?
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 05/07/2026
Ish Tominey-Nevado spoke to Unite members at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel in Manchester out on strike against their employer InterContinental Hotels Group UK (IHG) over union-busting activities, last minute rotas, sick pay and conditions. revsoc21.uk/2026/07/05/o...
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On strike at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 04/07/2026
James B reports from the picket line at the Institute of Cancer Research. revsoc21.uk/2026/07/04/s...
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Support the strikers at the Institute of Cancer Research
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 03/07/2026
Starmer will be remembered for his repressive law-and-order agenda if he is remembered at all. Socialists must be ready for new challenges under a government led by Andy Burnham – but our tasks remain the same. revsoc21.uk/2026/07/03/a...
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Andy Burnham is papering over the cracks
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 30/06/2026
SC Cook reflects on the story of Welsh Labour’s downfall as told by the people who delivered it. revsoc21.uk/2026/06/30/a...
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Abandoned: how Labour’s century of power came crashing down in Wales
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 29/06/2026
rs21 interviews STAT editor Pete Mercer on their recent cultural event Vermin. revsoc21.uk/2026/06/29/i...
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Interview | STAT Magazine on Vermin
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 27/06/2026
Steven Ribble shows how austerity is destroying the education system – and how teachers can fight back. revsoc21.uk/2026/06/27/t...
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The escalating crisis in English schools
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 26/06/2026
In this talk, given at rs21’s Festival of the Oppressed event in London, Ira Hybris argues that revolutionary socialists must address gender oppression – and liberation – not as secondary questions, but as primary concerns.
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A revolutionary transfeminism in and against our time
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 19/06/2026
rs21 members in Unite discuss a leadership election dominated by two wings of the union machine and argue for critical support for Sharon Graham over Simon Dubbins. revsoc21.uk/2026/06/19/u...
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Unite’s General Secretary election
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 18/06/2026
DK Renton covers the Court of Appeals upholding the Palestine Action ban, the past struggles, and the next steps. revsoc21.uk/2026/06/18/b...
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Banned But Not Beaten: Palestine Action and the State’s Total Lawfare
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 16/06/2026
rs21 interviews Arms Embargo From Below, who argue for rebuilding a disruptive anti-imperialist movement through factory blockades, worker organising and collective action.
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Re-igniting direct action for Palestine
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 11/06/2026
Florence Open and Martin Ralph write on the incarceration of the Brazilian trade unionist, and how to show solidarity. revsoc21.uk/2026/06/11/t...
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The Price of Saying ‘Free Palestine’: Zé Maria and International Repression
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 09/06/2026
rs21 health workers Hannah Dahwa and Gerrard Vannar set out seven steps that workers can take to defeat Palantir in the health service revsoc21.uk/2026/06/09/p...
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Palantir in the NHS: How to fight the surveillance state at work
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 04/06/2026
Benjamin Hargreaves looks back at the 1936 novel Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townshend Warner and the models of organising we can learn from it. revsoc21.uk/2026/06/04/l...
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Lavender Solstice: Revolution in Summer Will Show
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 27/05/2026
In the second part of our interview, Phil A. Neel talks about strategy and communist organisation. revsoc21.uk/2026/05/27/p...
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Party, class and the event: Interview with Phil A. Neel
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