Benjamin Hargreaves

Photo Credit: Joel Wall • June 29, 2026 rs21 interviews STAT editor Pete Mercer on their recent cultural event Vermin. Members of Manchester rs21 recently attended the cultural night/gig Vermin, a collaboration between STAT Magazine and Greater Manchester Tenant’s Union. Afterwards we spoke to its founder and editor, Pete Mercer, who is a designer and writer based in Leigh, Lancashire. You can find them at peteontheweb.blogspot.com. rs21: First things first – What is STAT magazine?

Rs21 Festival of the Oppressed 2026 • June 26, 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 Over the last decade, a renewed feminist movement with a broadly anti-capitalist character has emerged in response to an organisation of social reproduction based on the invisibilisation and devaluation of the feminised...

• June 9, 2026 rs21 health workers Hannah Dahwa and Gerrard Vannar set out seven steps that workers can take to defeat Palantir in the health service Palantir, a US AI and tech firm, is set to roll out a platform for amalgamating all patient data in NHS England using a Federated Data Platform (FDP). In 2023, they were awarded a £330 million contract for the project. Yet three years on, only 15 per cent of NHS trusts are using it, and there is a sizeable pushback from NHS workers and patients.