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The rape and murder of a trainee doctor in a Kolkata hospital - state-sanctioned, systemic violence 

Protests have spread across West Bengal following the rape and murder of a trainee doctor. Ekabali Ghosh explains the background to the protests and the context of systemic violence against women in India.  Kolkota protest over RG Kar rape and murder. Photo by Arijit Kisku via Wikipedia. Indians are not unused to this sequence of events. A heinous incident of rape happens in a part of India that…

The rape and murder of a trainee doctor in a Kolkata hospital - state-sanctioned, systemic violence 

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Rent hikes won't fix the housing crisis

The new Labour government has made big announcements on housing policy, but there’s very little there to benefit tenants. rs21 member Sam O looks critically at how the plans will affect council and housing association tenants. Devons Mansions, Southwark, London. Photo by Maggie Jones via Wikipedia. In all of Rachel Reeves’ announcements on housing policy in recent weeks, the focus has mainly been…

Rent hikes won't fix the housing crisis

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Teacher and support staff pay deals: the questions we need to ask

From the 21st September, teacher members of the NEU will be asked to vote in a ‘snap poll’ about this year’s pay offer. The poll is the last route to action on this year’s pay deal. Here, rs21 members in NEU examine the deal, the reality of the poll and look at the questions we need to consider for the future. Save Our Schools march and rally, central London 15th March 2023 by Steve Eason –…

Teacher and support staff pay deals: the questions we need to ask

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Review | Disability Praxis

Disability Praxis covers some of today’s key debates on disability justice in Britain and the US. rs21 member Shiraz Hussain reviews.  Photo: Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) protest against the DWP’s closure of the Independent Living Fund, London, 2013. Image by DPAC. Disability Praxis, by Bob Williams-Findlay, was published by Pluto Press in November 2023, and is available here. In this…

Review | Disability Praxis

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Grangemouth - the fight for jobs and climate justice

INEOS’s plans to close Scotland’s only petrol refinery at Grangemouth represent a critical test for both unions and climate campaigners. Pete Cannell argues that a radically different approach that ditches partnership with the oil and gas industry is required. An earlier version of this article was published on the Scot.E3 blog Marching for jobs in Grangemouth – image by Pete Cannell…

Grangemouth - the fight for jobs and climate justice

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Four theses on fascism, pogroms and liberation

Following the fascist and far-right mobilisations of early August, activist and author Jonas Marvin contributes some reflections on fascism, crisis and class politics, as the left continues to think through how to respond tactically and strategically.  Stand up to the far right rally at Reform UK HQ, 10 August 2024. Photo (C) Steve Eason This article was first published on the author’s blog…

Four theses on fascism, pogroms and liberation

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How Chinese and African organisers came together to protest an oil pipeline

Zhang Mazi explains how Chinese and African activists against an oil pipeline build transnational solidarity against international capitalist exploitation. This article was first published by Tempest. Chinese diasporic organizers in front of the office of ICBC protesting against EACOP. Photo by Zhang Mazi. On a hot Friday afternoon in New York City, Ugandan, Tanzanian, and Chinese organizers came…

How Chinese and African organisers came together to protest an oil pipeline

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Red Bird #4 | Responding to Repression

The crackdown against ecological organising continues apace. Following repression of Youth Demand and Just Stop Oil members who have faced police harassment, arrests and imprisonment in recent months, Reclaim The Power’s (RTP) summer camp faced heavy disruption from the police on the 8th August. The weekend was meant to see a protest camp for political discussions and actions against…

Red Bird #4 | Responding to Repression

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Protests and police repression in Nigeria

On 1 August millions marched against hunger, insecurity and inflation in Nigeria. Drew Povey and Kalamullah Bala explain the context and report on the demonstrations and their aftermath. On 7 August 2024, the Nigerian Labour Congress bookshop in Abuja was raided by police and likely DSS. They removed all the books, which covered topics such as trade unionism, environmentalism and feminism. Photo…

Protests and police repression in Nigeria

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Review | Who's Afraid of Gender?

Colin Wilson reviews Judith Butler’s recent intervention into discussions of gender and its use by the right. Around the world, the right are mobilising around “gender”. In Britain the main attacks have been against trans people, but in many countries these are part of a wider offensive against LGBTQ people and reproductive rights, and all these initiatives are part of oppositions to “woke” in…

Review | Who's Afraid of Gender?

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After the 7th August - building networks across the country

The mass turn out against the far right on 7 August is a cause for celebration. TK Adisa argues that it is now the responsibility of anti-fascists across the country to build and strengthen networks of resistance. Lewisham, 7 August Last Wednesday saw tens of thousands of people on the streets up and down the country standing up to the far-right, after 40 immigration-related buildings across the…

After the 7th August - building networks across the country

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Imperialism and British Workers: Moving Past the Labour Aristocracy Debates

Our history is shaped by the legacy of empire.  Alfie Hancox takes a critical look at debates around the idea of Labour Aristocracy and argues that ‘… a strategic approach to socialist internationalism will mean not losing sight of either conjuncture – the contingencies of class and national struggles, and points of anti-imperialist resistance – or structure – British labour’s long, intimate…

Imperialism and British Workers: Moving Past the Labour Aristocracy Debates

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After the horror, the hope

Author and activist Dave Renton reviews a week in which mass anti-racist and anti-fascist protests started to push back  Lewisham 08/08/2024 The week of the racist riots in Southport and elsewhere wasn’t quite the worst this country has ever seen. That dubious honour belongs to the riots in Cardiff and in seafaring communities across Britain in 1919. But the riots belong to a pattern of similar…

After the horror, the hope

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Southport Murders and Fascism

Andy Cunningham provides a local perspective on events in Southport and argues for clarity about the threat of fascism and the importance of uniting the Gaza solidarity movement with the antifascist movement. Counter-protest to the far right targeting asylum seeker accommodation shared under Creative Commons license On Monday, it was with shock that I received the news of the murders in…

Southport Murders and Fascism

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Red Bird #3 | What we learned in France

  Last March 2023, French environmentalists with Soulevements de la Terre (LST) (Uprisings of the Earth) mobilised an estimated 25,000 in opposition to ‘mega-basins’ – large reservoirs which reserve water for mega agri-businesses at the cost of local water sources, ecosystems, and small farmers.  The response from the French state was rapid and clear. Thousands of militarised officers attacked…

Red Bird #3 | What we learned in France

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Statement on Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Iran

rs21 releases a statement on the Zionist attacks which martyred Ismail Haniyeh and destroyed a neighbourhood in Beirut, and which risk spiralling war across the Middle East. A call to renew our work against imperialism in Britain. The Axis of Resistance. In the last 48 hours, Israel has carried out attacks on Dahiya in Beirut, and assassinated Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas’ political bureau,…

Statement on Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Iran

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Everyone Who Is Here Is From Here

Saturday 5 November 2016, 10.00 – 16:30, Capstan House, 1 Clove Crescent, London E14 – near East India DLR The EU referendum campaign and its aftermath have brought to the surface the constant scapegoating of migrants and immigration by both the far right and ‘respectable’ politicians from all parties. Migrants and minorities are blamed for everything from low wages to hospital waiting lists…

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