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Scotland After Britain: The Two Souls of Scottish Independence - book review
Book Reviews September 29, 2022
Chris Bambery welcomes Scotland After Britain, which argues for a radical version of an independent Scottish nation, rejecting the neoliberalism of the SNP ...
The government that just crashed the economy
Analysis September 28, 2022
As sterling falls, the IMF intervenes and the stock market falls, Dominic Alexander looks at the impact of the Tory budget for the rich
Tory crisis: Britannia unhinged - CounterBlast
Opinion September 28, 2022
Liz Truss’s premiership is off to the worst possible start, with the budget sparking meltdown in the economy and the Tory Party, argues Terina Hine
This fight will take everything we’ve got – weekly briefing
Opinion September 25, 2022
Lindsey German on squaring up to the double-down Tories
The Great Denial: Why they don’t want us to talk about class
Theory September 24, 2022
The first of a series of articles on class by Chris Nineham
Arriva London North: All-out strike! - News from the Frontline
Latest News September 23, 2022
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
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Strike days: let's go onto the offensive
We need wider and deeper co-ordination and escalation to win the strikes, argues Unjum Mirza
September 29, 2022 Unjum Mirza
Starmer is rewarming Blairism. Why are some on the left applauding?
Starmer at the Labour Conference broadcasted his commitment to free markets and fiscal austerity, argues Chris Nineham
September 29, 2022 Chris Nineham
The fortunes of war: can the Ukrainian counter-offensive succeed?
Vladimir Unkovski-Korica analyses the current direction of the Ukraine war.
September 28, 2022 Vladimir Unkovski-Korica
The Creator Has a Master Plan: Pharoah Sanders obituary
Martin Hall appreciates the musical legacy of the great experimental jazz musician, Pharoah Sanders
September 27, 2022 Martin Hall
Italy: The resistible rise of Giorgia Meloni
European elites and Italy’s centre-left will not oppose Meloni’s fascism, so we need a revival in anti-fascism to mobilise resistance, argues Chris Bambery ...
September 26, 2022 Chris Bambery
Labour conference: Reset to Blairite orthodoxy
Starmer’s return to Blairism at the Party conference offered nothing but feeble responses to Tory class war, argues Michael Lavalette
September 26, 2022 Michael Lavalette
Liverpool, Shankly, Socialism
As the Labour conference in Liverpool continues, Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman revisits Shankly's Clause Four
September 26, 2022 Mark Perryman
Further Education fights back
As the union fightback rises nationally, ten days of strike action in Further Education marks a significant return to industrial action in the sector, argues To...
September 25, 2022 Tom Whittaker
Theory
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: a short introduction
Ahead of Counterfire's discussion on Lenin on Imperialism, we repost Morgan Daniels' introduction to Lenin's 1917 pamphlet, Imperialism: The Highest S...
May 12, 2022 Morgan Daniels
Duncan Hallas: Socialism and war
This article originally written by the revolutionary Marxist Duncan Hallas to explain the position on war at the time of the Falklands/Malvinas war in 1982. It ...
March 17, 2022 Duncan Hallas
Alexandra Kollontai on International Women's Day
On International Women's Day, we republish Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai's writing on the history and importance of the day
March 7, 2022 Alexandra Kollontai
Will racism always be with us? - explainer
Yonas Makoni explains the socialist perspective on where racism comes from and how we can eradicate it
January 28, 2022 Yonas Makoni
Why is the labour theory of value so important? - explainer
Dominic Alexander explains the Marxist theory of where value comes from and why it's central to understanding how capitalism functions
January 17, 2022 Dominic Alexander
Books
Green capitalism does not work - book review
Capitalist measures to fix the climate have not worked, as two recent books show, so the key is to link working-class and ecological movements, argues Elaine Gr...
September 22, 2022 Elaine Graham-Leigh
Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries - book review
Uncontrollable Women brilliantly tells the history of women who fought for rights and against repression during the radical years in Britain of 1789-1832, finds...
September 15, 2022 Ellen Graubart
Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm than Good - book review
Lucette Davies reviews an already classic argument by James Davies on the damage that capitalism and profit seeking has done to the practice of psychiatry ...
September 8, 2022 Lucette Davies