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Another war? Don’t get fooled again – weekly briefing
Opinion January 23, 2022
Lindsey German on the drums of war beating for Ukraine
Why Class Matters - video
Video January 22, 2022
Lindsey German explains the concept of class and its centrality to Marxist thought
Cost of living crisis: We need a pay revolt! - News from the Frontline
Latest News January 21, 2022
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
The idiocy of Sajid Javid's 'academy-style' NHS privatisation plan
Opinion January 21, 2022
Private healthcare doesn't plug a gap in the NHS, it's the drain depleting the NHS's resources, writes Alia Butt
The Austrian Revolution - book review
Book Reviews January 20, 2022
The history of the 1918 Austrian revolution by the social-democratic leader of the time, Otto Bauer, despite itself shows why the revolution was lost, argues Ch...
Ukraine and the threat of war
Opinion January 19, 2022
The powder keg that threatens to ignite over the situation in the Ukraine is, more than anything, a manifestation of the turn towards intensified global rivalry...
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UCU: The battle ahead in higher education
Counterfire UCU members analyse the state of the struggle in higher education ahead of a second round of strike action
January 24, 2022 Counterfire UCU members
The anti-capitalist struggle against environmentally-destructive neoliberalism in Serbia
Vladimir Unkovski-Korica analyses the movement against the Rio Tinto mine in Serbia and the prospects for the left
January 24, 2022 Vladimir Unkovski-Korica
Afghanistan: A US-made humanitarian catastrophe
After twenty years of waging war on Afghanistan, the US has now created the world's worst humanitarian catstrophe with crippling sanctions, writes Jonathan Maun...
January 22, 2022 Jonathan Maunders
Solidarity is a verb: hundreds protest in London against Sheikh Jarrah evictions
Londoners sent a strong message to Israel and its enablers in Downing Street that we will not stand by while it ethnically cleanses Palestinians, reports Shabbi...
January 22, 2022 Shabbir Lakha
Andy Warhol Looks A Scream - review
The BBC's Andy Warhol's America paints a picture of an artist who latched on to an age of tumultuous events in America more by accident than design, writes Simo...
January 21, 2022 Simon Duckett
Tory logic: if the voters don't like you, stop them voting - CounterBlast
Boris Johnson plans to use Trump-style voter suppression as part of his desperate bid to cling to power, writes Sean Ledwith
January 20, 2022 Sean Ledwith
Austerity won’t save London’s environment: It’s time for a peoples’ transport policy
Sadiq Khan's "clean air charge" plan is a greenwashing ploy while implementing cuts to London's public transport, argues Kieran Crowe
January 20, 2022 Kieran Crowe
Workers unite! B&Q strikers and Scunthorpe scaffolders rally together
Actavo scaffolders due to resume their strike action next week showed their solidarity with B&Q Wincanton strikers at a rally this week, reports John Westmo...
January 19, 2022 John Westmoreland
Theory
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
Why is housing so expensive? - explainer
As house prices continue to rise amid a wider cost-of-living crisis, Reuben Bard-Rosenberg and Dominic Alexander explain how the housing crisis is rooted i...
January 3, 2022 Reuben Bard-Rosenberg and Dominic Alexander
Is capitalism in decline? - explainer
Dominic Alexander examines the state of capitalism and the ever-deepening multi-faceted crises it finds itself in
December 27, 2021 Dominic Alexander
Why is there never enough money for the NHS? – explainer
The NHS lurches from crisis to crisis. In this explainer, Alia Butt analyses why
December 6, 2021 Alia Butt
Can we avert climate chaos and meet people’s needs? - explainer
As Cop26 approaches, Feyzi Ismail explains why it looks unlikely to deliver and outlines a socialist approach to averting climate catastrophe ...
October 26, 2021 Feyzi Ismail
Books
China 1949: Year of Revolution - book review
As China 1949 shows, the CCP victory of that year enabled the country’s rise to global power status, but it was not a workers’ revolution, argues Sean Ledwith ...
January 13, 2022 Sean Ledwith
Revolutionary Peacemaking: Writings for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence - book review
Daniel Jakopovich’s Revolutionary Peacemaking is a fine collection of writings exploring how we can achieve a society of peace and social justice, finds Ellena ...
January 6, 2022 Ellena Plumb-Javed
Under the Socialist Banner: Resolutions of the Second International 1889-1912 - book review
The resolutions of the Second International are a revealing way of uncovering the contradictions in the pre-1914 workers’ movement, finds Chris Bambery ...
December 28, 2021 Chris Bambery