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Tories fail, Starmer flails - weekly briefing
Opinion June 21, 2021
Lindsey German on the Chesham and Amersham result and the forthcoming Unite leadership election
Caledonian Sleeper: strikers and passengers wide awake to Serco lies - News from the Frontline
Latest News June 18, 2021
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Unite election: a welcome step towards unity
Latest News June 18, 2021
Howard Beckett's withdrawal brings the left one step closer to a united candidate, essential to win the election in Unite.
Israel’s new far right leader will double down on apartheid and racism - CounterBlast
Opinion June 18, 2021
Israel’s incoming prime minister Naftali Bennett makes clear that the extreme oppression of the Palestinians has always been deeper than Netanyahu, writes Sean ...
The Ratline and The Good Germans - book review
Book Reviews June 17, 2021
Lindsey German reviews two case studies of the Nazi period, which, from above and from below, reveal the class nature of the regime and the resistance to it ...
Counting the cost of Coyne
Analysis June 15, 2021
Don’t underestimate what would change in the labour movement if Gerard Coyne led Unite the Union, warns John Rees
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Serco strikers serve up a storm at the Royal London Hospital
Catering workers at the Royal London Hospital are standing together against Serco, reports Jamal Elaheebocus from the picket line
June 22, 2021 Jamal Elaheebocus
What even is Great British Railways?
The Tories' idea of renationalising rail isn't quite what it's being packaged as. Kieran Crowe dissects what we know of the plans for Great British Railway...
June 22, 2021 Kieran Crowe
Class not culture: why white working class kids are really being let down
The government is trying to stoke a culture war with its latest report looking everywhere but its own anti-working-class policies for disparities in education, ...
June 22, 2021 Terina Hine
Why I’m joining the People’s Assembly demonstration for Palestine
Boris Johnson’s government must be held to account for its mishandling of Covid and its complicity in Israel’s war crimes, argues Fatimah Ahmed
June 21, 2021 Fatimah Ahmed
Friendship’s Death – film review
Peter Wollen’s newly restored feature film reminds us of a time when theory and practice came together in the cinema, argues Martin Hall
June 20, 2021 Martin Hall
Iran election: hardliners return under US stranglehold
The landslide victory of Ebrahim Raisi, facilitated by inept US policy and international sanctions, spells an end to eight years of reformism, writes Susan Ram ...
June 20, 2021 Susan Ram
Chesham and Amersham: Cracks in the blue wall, curtains for Starmer?
Labour’s dreadful showing in the Chesham and Amersham by-election deepens a crisis for Labour to which Starmer has no answer, argues Terina Hine
June 19, 2021 Terina Hine
Mahmoud Darwish: Poet of the Palestinian Resistance - video
Michael Lavalette launches his new book Palestinian Cultures of Resistance with a discussion about the life, politics and poetry of Mahmoud Darwish ...
June 17, 2021 Michael Lavalette
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
32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a United Ireland - book review
In 32 Counties, Kieran Allen shows that Irish unity is back on the agenda, if an anti-sectarian socialist politics can transform south and north, finds Chris Ba...
June 10, 2021 Chris Bambery
The Railway: An Adventure in Construction - book review
The post-war experiences of the young E.P. Thompson working on a railway in Tito’s Yugoslavia cannot be taken at face value, finds Dragan Plavšić
June 3, 2021 Dragan Plavšić
Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations - book review
Prashad’s Washington Bullets details the global economic and military interventions of the US, showing why anti-imperialist movements are vital, argues Jamal El...
May 27, 2021 Jamal Elaheebocus