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. https://revsoc21.uk/2026/08/07/disorienting-times/

Channel
rs21
@rs21org
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry
61subscribers
-2 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002242079629 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @rs21org |
| Created | Between 1 June 2024 and 30 September 2024 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 10 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 9 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 9 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/rs21org |
Topic
Politics & activism — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 28 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept 2026, 11:58 | 61 | -1 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 05:01 | 62 | -1 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 03:17 | 63 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 23:19 | 63 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 29 June 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 8 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
1 reaction across 1 post, in 1 kind.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 1 | 100.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 1 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 1 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 29 June 2026 to 8 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
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. https://revsoc21.uk/2026/08/05/a-communist-anticipates-health-communism/
Robert Chapman writes on the cynical use of neurodivergence by the Far Right, laying out how it happened and how to fight it. https://revsoc21.uk/2026/08/03/the-far-rights-embrace-of-neurodivergence/
Workers from the Institute of Cancer Research are into their ninth week of strike action, demanding pay restoration from a CEO on nearly half-a-million-pound annual salary. https://revsoc21.uk/2026/08/01/cancer-researchers-on-strike-in-west-london/
❤1
The British left has little to lose, but where should it go? https://revsoc21.uk/2026/07/29/should-the-british-left-build-its-own-dsa-two-views-from-rs21/
We must never again allow organisational structures to remain unchanged, unchallenged and unreviewed, as the world around us changes. https://revsoc21.uk/2026/07/27/the-evolution-of-democratic-centralism-in-the-swp-2/
An updated version of rs21’s Fighting Transphobia pamphlet is now available. https://revsoc21.uk/2026/07/26/fighting-transphobia-new-and-updated-edition/
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. https://revsoc21.uk/2026/07/24/solidarity-through-football/
Earlier this year, United Farm Workers founder César Chávez was accused of sexual abuse. But this problem goes beyond one man, as Mara writes. https://revsoc21.uk/2026/07/22/si-ya-puede-hablar-the-ufw-and-abuse/
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 explains. https://revsoc21.uk/2026/07/20/maleness-femaleness-heterosexuality-sold-to-us-by-capitalism/
In this first article of a series Against Modern Football, Sam O argues that the corruption and authoritarianism surrounding the World Cup are not aberrations but expressions of how capitalism exploits the game – and that the terraces remain a site of political struggle. https://revsoc21.uk/2026/07/16/whose-world-cup/
An in depth look at Clacton’s history and fighting back against Farage and the far right. https://revsoc21.uk/2026/07/13/farage-in-clacton-socialists-need-to-build-resistance-everywhere/
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @rs21org. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 28 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“rs21” (@rs21org), 61 subscribers as measured 28 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/rs21org.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.