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Did someone say austerity was over? – weekly briefing
Opinion September 19, 2021
Alex Snowdon on universal credit crimes and building the Cop26 protests
Cracks on the tracks: Met drivers to strike for fair pay - News from the Frontline
Latest News September 17, 2021
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Texas abortion ban: Resisting the attacks on reproductive rights - video
Video September 17, 2021
Counterfire's Kate O'Neil speaks to Chicago abortion rights campaigner Lauren Bianchi about the Texas abortion ban and how the movement can organise against it ...
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties - book review
Book Reviews September 16, 2021
Set the Night on Fire is a monumental history of radical movements in 1960s Los Angeles, which holds lessons for global resistance movements today, finds Sean L...
Johnson reshuffle: a cabinet of none of the talents - CounterBlast
Opinion September 16, 2021
Changing faces in the Tory top team is just papering over the cracks of a rotten regime, writes Sean Ledwith
“Staying quiet doesn’t work” - interview with a Staff Nurse
Interview September 13, 2021
After being on the frontlines of the fight against the pandemic, health workers were rewarded with a pay cut by the Tories. Now they’re fighting back and deman...
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NHS strikes on the table as health workers decisively reject pathetic Tory pay deal
GMB organiser Helen O'Connor explains why NHS workers have voted overwhelmingly to reject the 3% pay offer and are determined to fight back
September 21, 2021 Helen O'Connor
Looking at the past and the future of anti-imperialism: 20 years of Stop the War
Cici Washburn reports from Saturday's rally commemorating 20 years of the Stop the War Coalition
September 20, 2021 Cici Washburn
The 8th: The Movement for Abortion Rights in Ireland - review
The 8th is a moving and powerful film showing how mass activism is the route to achieving change, argues Lucy Nichols
September 20, 2021 Lucy Nichols
Does Starmer's Labour have a problem with trade unionists? - Interview with Ian Hodson
Counterfire's Shabbir Lakha spoke to Ian Hodson, the National President of the BFAWU, who has been threatened with expulsion from the Labour Party
September 20, 2021 Shabbir Lakha
Climate and Class Struggle
Climate chaos will hit the poor and the working class the hardest. A fighting movement is needed to demand climate justice, argues John Clarke
September 19, 2021 John Clarke
Aukus: ratcheting up Western confrontation with China - video
Chris Nineham speaks to RT News about the provocative and unnecesary step the US, UK and Australia have taken with their new nuclear alliance
September 18, 2021 Chris Nineham
Off the rails: The Tories have no plan for trains
The Tories' plans for railways is all talk and no action, writes Kieran Crowe
September 15, 2021 Kieran Crowe
Oak Park school strike: teachers stand defiant against bullying
Teachers at Oak Park school continue to strike for safety and against bullying from management, reports Carole Vincent
September 15, 2021 Carole Vincent
Theory
Tony Cliff: Roots of Israel’s violence
We repost Tony Cliff's 1982 article on Zionism and the foundations of the state of Israel, introduced by Alex Snowdon
June 6, 2021 Tony Cliff, Introduction by Alex Snowdon
Why does the Labour Party fail? - explainer
Alex Snowdon dissects the root of Labour's failures as a party that's meant to represent working people
October 27, 2020 Alex Snowdon
What is imperialism? - explainer
In the tenth part of a series of explainers, Dragan Plavšić examines the roots of imperialism and how to oppose it
September 8, 2020 Dragan Plavšić
Is revolution possible in the twenty-first century? – explainer
In the ninth part of our explainer series, Katherine Connelly looks at the continuing possibility of revolution for transforming society today
August 25, 2020 Katherine Connelly
What went wrong in Russia? - explainer
In the eighth part of a series of socialist explainers, Vladimir Unkovski-Korica analyses what went wrong in post-revolution Russia
August 18, 2020 Vladimir Unkovski-Korica
Books
Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality - book review
Sociology and its limits: an ambitious new study of stigma falls short on a number of counts, argues Susan Ram
September 9, 2021 Susan Ram
The World Turned Upside Down - book review
The World Turned Upside Down, a speculative fiction novel, is a compelling story of global exploitation and resistance driven by a complex protagonist, finds Ha...
September 2, 2021 Hannah Cross
Forty Lost Years - book review
Chris Bambery welcomes an English translation of Forty Lost Years, a classic Catalan novel of revolution and civil war in Catalonia of the 1930s ...
August 26, 2021 Chris Bambery