A semigroup variety is a Rees–Sushkevich variety if it is contained in a periodic variety generated by 0-simple semigroups. The collection of all permutative combinatorial Rees–Sushkevich varieties constitutes an incomplete lattice that does not contain the complete join J of all its varieties. The objective of this article is to investigate the subvarieties of J. It is shown that J is locally finite, non-finitely generated, and contains only finitely based subvarieties. The subvarieties of J are precisely the combinatorial Rees–Sushkevich varieties that do not contain a certain semigroup of order four.