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Wee little children: The DUP and Boris Johnson’s tantrums in Northern Ireland

The Tory horsemen of the inflation apocalypse

PCS President Fran Heathcote calls for united resistance to stop 91,000 civil service job cuts

Royalty, republicanism and the ruling class: Why we booed Prince William

Workers’ uprising topples Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister

Apartheid under pressure – weekly briefing

Lindsey German statement at Spycops Inquiry

Striving for a way forward: Lessons for the world from Tower Hamlets

Policing mental health: How the SIM model is criminalising mental distress

War is Peace: Finland and Sweden poised to join NATO

Spies, lies and sabotage: How the state infiltrated the far left

Beergate: Starmer’s ‘honour’ and cynical games - CounterBlast

Climate chaos: 'The time for action is now'

The Tower Hamlets revolt explodes the election stalemate – weekly briefing

Labour gets a bloody nose in Tower Hamlets

Let them ride buses: Boris Johnson’s car crash - CounterBlast

This is the real face of the Ukraine war – weekly briefing

Confronting connected crises: cost of living and the war

Billionaire twit: Elon Musk's delusions of democracy - CounterBlast

There’s planet government and then there’s life on earth – weekly briefing

Assange's fate can't be left in the hands of Priti Patel

Derry Girls Season 3: Sharp politics and sharper wit - review

Johnson is running out of rope over lockdown parties - CounterBlast

Child Q: structural racism and its impact on BAME people

Keeping neoliberalism 'stable': NDP props up Trudeau

Crisis in Pakistan: The fall of Imran Khan was made in Washington - CounterBlast

NEU Conference escalates the fight against the government

Racist Rwanda refugee plan: Taking cruelty to a new level

Fines won't cut it: Johnson and Sunak have got to go - CounterBlast

The cost of living crisis and the global resistance

The prodigal CEO returns: Starbucks ramps up anti-union campaign

‘Weapons, weapons and more weapons’: the path to further war – weekly briefing

Sri Lanka’s Arab Spring rebellion - CounterBlast

Partygate: yesterday’s news? - CounterBlast

'Neither East nor West': How Orbán won again

Whatever happened to taking back control? Brexit and the cost of living crisis

This crisis is too big for half measures – weekly briefing

The many crises of capitalism and how we can overcome them

France: Mélenchon, Macron, Zemmour and the future of the left

1 April energy price hike: the joke's on us

Who benefited from the British Empire?

No Births Behind Bars: The scandal of imprisoning pregnant women

If the government can seize oligarchs’ boats, it can nationalise P&O - CounterBlast

We need a real fight against P&O - leaflet

The cost of living crisis: all out this Saturday!

Living with Covid? - CounterBlast

Letting the cat out of the bag? Biden, Putin and regime change

Curious tensions: the American hard right and Putin

A very British disgrace: seven years of the Saudi war in Yemen

Keep up the pressure: stop the P&O jobs massacre

Nato summit: they make a desert, and call it peace

Freeports and freeloading: How the Tories bent the rules for DP World

Zelensky's clampdown: censorship and silencing from the West's poster boy

Is Iran finally coming in from the cold? – CounterBlast

Hull solidarity with P&O workers shows the way

Causes and effects: Russian aggression, Nato and the war in Ukraine

University strikes: collectivise our anger

Is there a way of bringing peace to Ukraine?

The cost of living crisis: a political choice, not a result of war

Nationalise P&O now! Hull shows solidarity with sacked workers

Child Q: 'we stand united against your oppression'

Jingoism against Russians hurts us all - CounterBlast

‘A preplanned assault’. RMT organiser speaks out on the battle against the P&O sackings.

Solidarity with P&O workers: this is a fight for us all

Assange: now the fight over political freedom returns to centre stage

Rolling back racism: Why we can still defeat the Nationality and Borders Bill

All refugees should be welcome here

The privatisation of the refugee crisis – CounterBlast

The cost of living crisis is a political choice

Obituary - Alain Krivine: 1941 - 2022

Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it – weekly briefing

The cost of European rearmament: who pays?

Poverty in the Centres of Wealth

Long Covid: the elephant in the room?

After Ukraine, are the Balkans next?

Why sanctions on Russia are not the answer

Ukraine: ‘Who is winning the war?’ and other stupid questions

Why do we still have a gender pay gap?

Climate change and war: The whole social structure needs to be overturned

Russian socialists against the war

Going nuclear: the dangerous drive to more war in Ukraine

Russia’s anti-war protests: how best to support them

Governments start wars, people bring them to an end

10 reasons to join the cost of living protests this Saturday

First they came for Stop the War, now they're coming for tube workers

Canada’s ‘Trucker’ convoy leaves its mark

An open letter to George Monbiot

War creates refugees - who knew?

The warmongers always have the enemy at home in their sights – weekly briefing

Is Starmer’s warmongering a betrayal or business as usual for Labour?

Trojan Horse affair: Michael Gove's Islamophobic witch-hunt

Asking for what is ours: Fight to save our NHS

'Living with Covid': The Tories just don't care about public health

Stop the drive to war, return to diplomacy - Stop the War statement on Ukraine

The main enemy is at home: The urgent tasks for the anti-war movement

Cost of living and the Tory assault: How we fight back

Freedom Convoy: The far right is on a roll in Canada

Johnson on the warpath – weekly briefing

All the royals should follow Prince Andrew into oblivion - CounterBlast

Mental health: an inhumane lack of care that will hinder all our futures

Living with the virus: The worst instincts of capitalism

Why students must support the UCU strikes

What is Counterfire?

Ukraine: it’s Johnson and Starmer versus public opinion – weekly briefing

Climate change and the cost of living: why we must nationalise energy

No war in Ukraine: stop Nato’s warmongering

Yemen is bleeding: Britain's complicity in Saudi Arabia's war

Cost of living crisis: We must resist the Tory assault

Good riddance: The long overdue resignation of Cressida Dick

Why the Actavo scaffolders strike might make history

Starmer smears Stop the War to side with the warmongers

How British security services colluded in the assassinations of Catholics in Northern Ireland

Rishi rich: making the poorest pay to protect corporate profits

Why 1,500 teachers in 23 schools are going on strike this week

The right answer to price hikes is strikes and protest – weekly briefing

Incarcerating the abused: women imprisoned for defending themselves

Ukraine: Boris Johnson is fanning the flames of war

The deepening decay of unionism in Northern Ireland

We will not pay for their energy crisis

Super-rich Sunak says ‘adjust’ to poverty. We say: hit the streets

Gove’s levelling up is a hand-me-down rehash - CounterBlast

Ulysses at 100: the politics of James Joyce

Cressida Dick: The rot starts at the top

Calling it what it is: Amnesty's bold stand against Israeli apartheid

Sue Gray report: Johnson's told too many lies to redact

What does Portugal's election result mean for the radical left?

Police protection: Boris Johnson and Cressida Dick – weekly briefing

Pay up now! Croydon hospital workers to protest against G4S

Palestinian prisoners’ struggles take a militant turn

The police, the Prime Minister and the birthday party - CounterBlast

Another war? Don’t get fooled again – weekly briefing

Afghanistan: A US-made humanitarian catastrophe

The idiocy of Sajid Javid's 'academy-style' NHS privatisation plan

Andy Warhol Looks A Scream - review

Tory logic: if the voters don't like you, stop them voting - CounterBlast

Austerity won’t save London’s environment: It’s time for a peoples’ transport policy

Ukraine and the threat of war

'Keep making noise': Priti Patel defeated in the Lords but the battle to kill the bill continues

Blockades at a crossroads: can the movement in Serbia stop Rio Tinto?

Last orders for Johnson – weekly briefing

What freedom means under capitalism

Illegal "VIP lane" contracts: Tory corruption is the other pandemic - CounterBlast

Sorry, not sorry: Boris Johnson's got to go

Boris bottles it: is the party over? - CounterBlast

Australia, Covid and the Djoković affair

Covid, corruption and class struggle: ten pointers for 2022 – weekly briefing

Sidney Poitier broke the mould of what a Black actor could be

The Colston 4 victory and the principled defiance we need

Starmer relaunches his relaunch with more flag-hugging – CounterBlast

Anne: Hillsborough drama reminds us how low the establishment will go to protect itself

New year, same problems - CounterBlast

The false promises of Canadian official multiculturalism

The bloody legacy of Bomber Blair

Radical Christmas Songs, Vol. IV

Twelve Books for Twelve Days of Christmas

Quebec's Bill 21: Islamophobia dressed up as secularism

Confronting racism is not a crime: Defend the Colston 4

Victory for the left: Chile votes to end 50 years of neoliberalism

Sinn Féin and the crises in both Irelands

Social democracy doesn't deliver

The battle in the NHS isn't over, it's just beginning: Lessons from the GMB strike ballot

Johnson is on the ropes: North Shropshire result could finish him off - CounterBlast

Omicron: It didn't have to be Groundhog Day

Assange lost because the judges couldn’t imagine the US was lying

The party's over for Johnson - CounterBlast

Is BoJo about to go-go? – weekly briefing

Amazon: time the bosses reaped the whirlwind

Priti Patel’s racist attack on citizenship

Ten Marxist classics for Xmas

Deja vu: Omicron for Christmas - CounterBlast

Honduras: How the left beat back the US-backed right

The ghost of Christmas parties past – weekly briefing

Vaccine imperialism: A global threat

Spread the action: A striking scaffolder speaks

Sun sets on relic of Empire in Barbados - Counterblast

A deck full of jokers: Starmer shuffles out the last of the left - CounterBlast

EU mining troubles: what unites striking coal miners and protesting anti-mining activists in the Balkans?

Johnson: who is that unmasked man? – weekly briefing

Pushback in the ‘backyard’: Venezuelan voters reject US-backed opposition

Bubbling over: Canada's housing market on the edge

Murder in the Channel

RMT strikers don't go gently into the night tube relaunch

Germany: Traffic-light coalition gives green light to more of the same-CounterBlast

Rittenhouse acquittal: A green light for the far right

Is this the beginning of the end for Boris Johnson? - CounterBlast

The ghost of Corbynism still haunts Johnson – weekly briefing

Sudan resists: anti-coup uprising rocks the junta

Johnson’s Northern Powerhouse comes off the rails - CounterBlast

Historic opportunity for the left in Argentina

Modi’s meltdown: India’s farmers reap the rewards of their resistance

Going down the tube: the threat to London’s transport

PCS challenges Priti Patel’s ‘pushbacks’: how trade unions can resist racism

Stateless children: the next victims of Priti Patel’s war on refugees

The oppression of refugees: a UK-France collaboration

The Tories have brought the NHS to the brink of collapse – CounterBlast

Build back better? A post-pandemic attack on social benefits

The shame of Europe – weekly briefing

Why NHS strikes are necessary

Europe's shame: The horrific treatment of refugees on the Poland-Belarus border

The Tories’ spiralling sleaze scandal - CounterBlast

Sleaze: it’s a Tory way of life - weekly briefing

Mired in sleaze: Tory corruption reveals a system ‘not fit for purpose’

Racism is not banter: The shame of Yorkshire Cricket - CounterBlast

Doctor Who – apocalypse, politics, and story arcs

Notes from the countryside: the fantasy and reality of rural England

We need a radical alternative to the Cop-out in Glasgow – weekly briefing

Panther Power: the life and legacy of the young Tupac Shakur

Sunak’s feelgood budget flop

Never forget: the pain and the politics of Covid

Sunak’s smoke and mirrors - Counterblast

NHS worker: why Sunak’s six billion won’t solve our problems

Would you trust the spies planning your assassination to keep you safe?

‘Journalism is not a crime’: protesters march for Assange

Tories: the Covid mask slips – weekly briefing

Boris Johnson's climate fallacy

Déjà vu: more Tory failure as Covid cases soar - CounterBlast

Welfare that makes you ill: the cruelty of the DWP

Colin Powell: death of the Iraq War salesman

The trouble with terrorism – weekly briefing

Fight for the truth, march for Assange

Women's liberation and the trans debate

No Platform: Free speech for all?

A fatal policy: the Covid Report and deliberate deaths

‘O if we could only be a proletarian swarm of rats’ - Europa review

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Heroine of the Nigerian Motherland

The Tories' Winter storm: meetings on the crisis in your area

Turning insult into injury: Starmer and the endless war on the left

Academic freedom is under attack

Now it’s neither heat nor eat – weekly briefing

Who sleeps in the unmade bed: A response to John Molyneux on the nature of conceptual art

Why I joined Counterfire

Are the wheels coming off the Tories’ wagon?

Johnson is levelling up on lies - CounterBlast

The cruelty of the Tory Universal Credit cut

Pandora's box: the shady world of tax-dodging Tony

A dangerous opening for the right in Canada

Driver shortage? What driver shortage?

Sexual violence, economic violence: why women still need our rights – weekly briefing

The police don’t keep women safe

Vigil, identity politics, and the New Cold War

Why inflation is not caused by workers

Starmer vs the members - CounterBlast

Discontents for all seasons – weekly briefing

Recovery positions: A Labour Party Conference reading guide

Germany’s election: shattering the illusion of stability

The US, Afghanistan and the Second Cold War

Canadian election deepens Trudeau's crisis of legitimacy

Gas shortages ignite Tory crisis - CounterBlast

Did someone say austerity was over? – weekly briefing

Johnson reshuffle: a cabinet of none of the talents - CounterBlast

Off the rails: The Tories have no plan for trains

Universal Credit cut: catastrophe in the making

We have to make Cop26 a turning point for the climate movement

The Pandora’s Box of 9/11 – weekly briefing

9/11 and the legacy of endless war

Why I’m marching in Manchester: take the fight to the Tories over the climate crisis

Just like Thatcher, Boris Johnson cosies up to Chilean Tyrants

Tory care plan punishes the poor and rewards the rich - CounterBlast

Priti racist: Patel's war against refugees

Stop the culture war against the old and unite against the Tories – weekly briefing

Resist the attack on higher education pensions

Batting away complaints – Azeem Rafiq and racism in cricket

Treated with disrespect and disdain: former Labour member speaks out on Starmer’s witch hunt

Palestine is still the issue: take the fight to the Tories in Manchester

Raab up Afghan creek without a paddleboard - CounterBlast

The anti-Irish racism rooted in Scotland's elite

Why NHS workers will be taking the fight to the Tories in Manchester

Canada's role as a global exploiter

Stop the War statement on Kabul bombings

In the Blair bunker war never ends – weekly briefing

Trudeau’s ‘fourth wave’ election gamble

‘Woefully inadequate’: the Home Office’s pitiful plan for Afghan refugees

Made in Washington: the tragedy of Afghanistan

Busting the myths about the war on Afghanistan

The tragedy of Afghanistan must never be repeated - CounterBlast

Afghanistan: the collapse of the war on terror – weekly briefing

Time to teach the Tories a lesson: why I'll be marching in Manchester

Not so hidden agenda: Ken Loach and Labour's war on the left

The Suicide Squad review: Gunn takes aim at US imperialism

Afghanistan: why Biden is still bombing

Capitalism vs life: Alberta’s ‘just give up’ approach to the pandemic

A question of class: ‘Grade inflation’ and statistical snobbery

Results day: the inequality behind the grades – CounterBlast

Blairism: first time tragedy, second time farce – weekly briefing

HS2 construction: derailing workers’ safety

The post-pandemic writing on the wall

France: Vaccination, Health Pass Protests, and the Left

Latin in schools and the Bellum cultura

You can’t offset death: COP26, the mortality cost of carbon and the case for radical change

Zero support for workers as Labour backs employers on zero-hour contracts - Counterblast

China: Britain's gunboat diplomacy is not a force for peace

This is a Tory crisis, not a migrant crisis

Covid and the campuses: can UCU turn anger into action?

Don't be fooled by the pingdemic - CounterBlast

Fighting Covid in France: tricky times for the Left?

Palestinian Authority: managing the occupation

Punished for speaking truth to power: Dawn Butler is right about Johnson’s lies

Tokyo Olympics: Lighting the flame of a Covid disaster – CounterBlast

Lies leave the Assange case exposed – this is a political persecution

Criminalising the vulnerable: the nationality and borders bill

Tories 3-0 down in the culture wars – weekly briefing

Tory cruelty and incompetence vs public good sense and caution - CounterBlast

Astronomical wealth: Bezos blasts off

How feeding racism ultimately became the Home Office’s main plan

Tory culture wars vs anti-racist good sense

Witchfinder Starmer must be stopped: this is a fight for all the left

‘Freedom Day’ is really Groundhog Day

Bezos, Branson and Musk: Invasion of the Space Parasites - CounterBlast

Don’t be fooled, Boris Johnson isn’t going to spend foreign aid money on the NHS

Calls grow for an end to the US blockade on Cuba

Cuba crisis: made in Washington

Tyrone Mings is right: racism is driven from the top

Flying blind: the Tories‘ dangerous unlocking experiment

Better safe than sorry you believed Boris – weekly briefing

Fighting for the NHS: Voices from the frontline in Wandsworth

Don’t believe the hype: Tories love talking about freedoms while actually taking them away - CounterBlast

Killer capitalism: climate change and the North American heat wave

The war on woke: how socialists should respond to the culture wars

Murdoch’s man: how the left can beat Coyne in Unite

Now or never? The phoney logic of 'Freedom Day'

‘Blame the Muslims’ is the new cry from Labour – weekly briefing

Afghanistan: the humiliating end of the US’s longest war

Batley and Spen: hanging by a thread does not vindicate Starmer

Donald Rumsfeld was a known known war criminal - CounterBlast

We are the opposition: hope on the streets at the People's Assembly demonstration

Northern Ireland: Donaldson and the DUP in disarray

Capitalism is killing the planet: what should socialists do?

Talking peace, making war: the dangers of Biden’s Iran gambit

What a HanCock up! – weekly briefing

Do as I say, not as I do (again): hopeless Hancock must go – CounterBlast

If we want a new normal, we have to fight for it

Creepy and cringeworthy: school student on 'One Britain One Nation' day

HMS Provacateur and British brinkmanship in the Black Sea

Why health workers are marching for the NHS at the People's Assembly demonstration

Why students are joining the People's Assembly demonstration

The brutal reality of prisons - Time review

What even is Great British Railways?

Class not culture: why white working class kids are really being let down

Why I’m joining the People’s Assembly demonstration for Palestine

Tories fail, Starmer flails - weekly briefing

Iran election: hardliners return under US stranglehold

Chesham and Amersham: Cracks in the blue wall, curtains for Starmer?

Israel’s new far right leader will double down on apartheid and racism - CounterBlast

The news that’s not fit to print

Osime Brown victory: protests push back Priti Patel’s racist deportation

The predictable and preventable failure of 'Freedom Day' - CounterBlast

The crisis isn't going away and the G7 have no solutions

Grenfell four years on: the fight for justice continues

Trans rights, women’s rights and open debate – weekly briefing

Ontario murders: another part of the pattern of Islamophobic hatred in Canada

Don't split the left: an open letter from Unite members

Empty G7 promises are not going to solve the climate crisis

To Biden and the G7 leaders: Palestine is still the issue

Taking the knee and taking on the racists - CounterBlast

The left breakthrough in Peru: socialist teacher Castillo on the verge of victory

Foreign aid cut: Boris Johnson's government is as cruel as it is corrupt - CounterBlast

Chanie Rosenberg 1922-2021

The political economy of public debt: a Marxist critique of Modern Monetary Theory

The Cornish clearances are under way – weekly briefing

Misdirection: The driverless trains illusion

Teacher assessed grades: calm before the storm

Fora Bolsonaro: mass demonstrations erupt in Brazil

Tory education catch-up plan explodes on launchpad - CounterBlast

Canada’s murderous residential schools: the enduring legacy of colonialism

School is in session: students stand with Palestine amid Tory clampdown

The Colombian National Strike and the uprising against a deadly government

End of eviction ban will lead to epidemic of homelessness - CounterBlast

Cummings is equally culpable for care homes Covid catastrophe

Striking while the oven’s hot: Hovis workers win pay rise

The French state couldn’t stop solidarity with Palestine

Cummings’ revelations: Nemesis comes to Number 10 – CounterBlast

Confusion, chaos and contempt at No. 10 - CounterBlast

Black footballers and the media: Amad Diallo, the tabloids and racism

Palestine: return of the resistance – weekly briefing

The bombs have stopped but the occupation hasn't: keep standing with Palestine

The Israeli War Machine is deliberately destroying Palestinian families - CounterBlast

There's no reconciliation without justice: The British state's crimes in Northern Ireland

Palestine: a movement reborn - weekly briefing

The battle of Kenmure Street: the new Tory assault and the growing resistance

Palestine rises against the Iron Dome of Israeli’s apartheid state – CounterBlast

Safety last: fire at New Providence Wharf shows Grenfell tragedy is system-built

Why we must stand with Palestine

Vaccine imperialism: an indictment of global capitalism

The Queen's speech and what's in store: more austerity, less democracy - CounterBlast

After the Holyrood elections: can Scotland win its independence?

Don’t mention 2017: Labour, Brexit and last week’s elections

Labour: how to make a drama out of a crisis - weekly briefing

To be or not to be? The Scottish election and the fate of Britain

Is it good night Sir Keir after Labour’s bad night?

The Colombian uprising: mass protests rage on despite deadly repression

How dangerous is Marine Le Pen?

The dangerous victory for the Spanish right in Madrid

Super Thursday elections: Starmer and Labour's continuing decline - CounterBlast

Independence rallies on eve of Scottish elections, but will Holyrood challenge Westminster?

Don’t be confused by complexity: defending Julian Assange is defending democracy

Ten Books for May Days

Biden’s 100 days: US capitalism might be getting a facelift but it’s still rotten

India’s Covid apocalypse: ‘Super spreader’ Modi lets the bodies pile high

Good night Arlene

Johnson’s lies pile up in their thousands - CounterBlast

J’accuse! Spycops witness speaks out

The perpetual failure of Keir Starmer – weekly briefing

Stick it to the Tories is back!

The 20 year war: how the West destroyed Afghanistan

Neoliberal own goal: Super League collapse is a victory for working class activism and solidarity – CounterBlast

Peruvians are sick of neoliberalism, but can the left win?

Chauvin convicted: a victory for the movement but the struggle continues

No solution for Generation Rent: 95% mortgages will not fix the housing crisis - CounterBlast

European Super League: is capitalism killing football?

The West's defeat in Afghanistan: after twenty years of war, what was it all for?

Privatisation is the engine of cronyism and corruption – weekly briefing

Why nurses are considering strike action

Scottish elections: will Alba shake things up?

Take it to the streets: Get ready for 26 June

Cameron, getting caught and the new corruption

Black Lives Matter: protests rage after police killing of Daunte Wright

Ecuador election: what went wrong for the left?

Democratic rights and the class struggle: a brief history

The price we pay for the prince – weekly briefing

Soundtrack to the Brixton Uprising 40 years on

‘Long to reign over us’? The monarchy, land, money and guns

Deliveroo strike: drivers deliver another blow to gig economy

Loyalist riots: is the long Good Friday coming to an end?

Passport to more Tory failure: why Boris Johnson's strategy is wrong - CounterBlast

Aberystwyth Kill the Bill protest taps into the history of Welsh resistance

Starmer has nothing to offer Teesside

Books to spring into Spring with

5 reasons the new racism report is bullshit

Sewell report: racist government exonerates itself over racism - CounterBlast

Scottish independence at a crossroads: where has Alba come from?

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance - review

Is the gig economy unravelling?

Police bill: the protestors aren’t for turning – weekly briefing

Labour backs Tory assault on democracy in Liverpool – CounterBlast

Priti Patel is addicted to attacking refugees - CounterBlast

Lessons from the Yellow Vests: Police violence, protest and the state

Capitalist greed got us into this mess, it won’t get us out

Lockdown anniversary: a year of Tory failures

Justice at last for the Shrewsbury pickets

Who starts it? Violence, protest and what the police are really for

'Global Britain': Boris Johnson's vision for more war

Vaccine bounce or Starmer slump? – weekly briefing

Supreme Court ruling shows callous contempt for care workers

Atlanta murders: how US imperialism is driving anti-Chinese racism

Just what we need in the middle of a pandemic: more nukes - CounterBlast

CLR James on the Paris Commune: They showed the way to labour emancipation

Kill the bill: the last thing the police need is more power - CounterBlast

Who polices the police? – weekly briefing

Swiss burqa ban: the racist right digs in deeper

Slanders against Corbyn echo in Canada

Sarah Everard: Banning vigils is an assault on our rights – CounterBlast

Win Philosophy Football's Communard T-shirt

Reclaim These Streets: where people are protesting on Saturday

Sarah Everard killing: can women ever be safe?

Pork barrel politics: the Tory plan to spend billions buying votes - CounterBlast

Royal racism isn’t new, the whole monarchy’s got to go

When the clapping stops, the action begins - weekly briefing

Scottish Labour lurches to the right

A revolutionary life: Rosa Luxemburg at 150

The strange reinvention of spreader Sunak – CounterBlast

The SNP bust-up: what does it mean for Scottish independence?

From ‘bling-bling’ to Sing Sing: the calamitous fall of Nicolas Sarkozy

Sunak’s budget: austerity hasn’t gone away – CounterBlast

Why is Starmer to the right of the Tories on corporation tax? - CounterBlast

The Trump Moment: a wake-up call for the left

Bobby Sands and the political prisoners who changed Ireland

Shamima Begum ruling: the racist product of Britain’s wars

Our children need less neoliberal education, not more - CounterBlast

Myanmar protests: More than a fight for liberal democracy?

Johnson’s not-so-cautious roadmap raises more questions than it answers - CounterBlast

A school student speaks: 8 March ‘big bang’ reopening just isn’t safe

Learning little: Johnson and the great schools gamble

Unite: the left must mobilise to beat the right

Starmer’s shtick: Ruthless against the left, useless against the right - CounterBlast

Racism, sexism and ‘Karens’

How Britain helped Bahrain’s dictator crush the revolution

Schools: 8 March reopening is unsafe

It’s not the vaccine, it’s the vacuousness: polling, politics and the Starmer slump

Starmer and Mandelson plot to resurrect the corpse of Blairism - CounterBlast

Beyond satire: John Woodcock to investigate extremism

The revolutionary right: the threat remains

The government’s gamble with workers’ lives – CounterBlast

Pro-independence Catalan vote deepens crisis of the Spanish state

Boğaziçi student protesters are taking on Erdoğan and they need our solidarity

Unearthing class and conflict in Sutton Hoo – Netflix’s The Dig reviewed

Are the Tories really ending privatisation in the NHS?

The ICC decision on Israeli war crimes – what does it change?

CPTPP: More freedom for capitalists, more exploitation for workers

The vaccine is essential, but not a magic bullet - CounterBlast

Striking for Goldsmiths: can assessment boycotts deliver the goods for HE workers?

Tory CRG: the crazed, the bad and the ugly

Violence and democracy: a flying picket explains

Tories don’t actually care about your child’s mental health - CounterBlast

Ecuador election: neoliberalism on its way out

Myanmar: No country for aging generals?

Brazil: escalating covid deaths pile the pressure on Bolsonaro

Why we need a People’s Covid Inquiry

Covid is a threat to children too, but the government doesn’t care

A tale of two Europes

Five reasons why Israel is an apartheid state

Napier Barracks: Priti Patel’s human rights scandal

Starmer's flag fetish: win the middle ground, don’t chase it

Starmer’s patriot games are a political dead end for Labour - CounterBlast

Justifying institutional racism: Met Police defends targeting black people

Myanmar coup: the generals are back – but then they never went away

The virus is evolving but the government's policies aren't - CounterBlast

It’s a Sin: lots of heart, but not a lot of politics - review

Goldsmiths UCU: leading the charge with words and action - Branch Solidarity Network bulletin February 2021

Poland’s abortion ruling: collapsing conservatism

When the game stops: who's really manipulating the market?

100,000 reasons Johnson should resign in disgrace - CounterBlast

Deja vu: Tories push to reopen schools before it's safe...again - CounterBlast

How the Egyptian Revolution unfolded: an eyewitness account

The sectarian roots of Orange rule

The people the media's forgotten about: voices from the frontline

Covid19: the struggle to save lives means opposing this criminal government – CounterBlast

Biden's presidency, the warmakers and the anti-war movement in the US

20 reasons to celebrate the end of the Trump Presidency - CounterBlast

False hopes: the crisis will not be solved by slightly nicer capitalism

We can and must stop the cuts to Universal Credit, let’s bang our pots

Despatches from the frontline: nurse speaks on hospitals crisis

The Tory failures behind Britain's world-beating Covid death rate - CounterBlast

Universal Credit uplift: Tories lose vote, now they must be forced to u-turn

Stop blaming people’s behaviour for this catastrophe – weekly briefing

Barnoldswick: Workers standing together gets results

Armoured cars and tanks and guns: the real story of the Irish troubles

Bye bye Richard Leonard: the decline of Scottish Labour continues

The fight against Trumpism: lessons of Hitler’s Munich Putsch

Life outside Labour - part 2

Covid crisis: 10 demands unions should be making now

Tories are trying to blame us for their pandemic failures - CounterBlast

Richard Sharp: a suitable appointment for the BBC

Starmer: no leadership, no principles - CounterBlast

Free School Meals: profiting from hungry children

How to take on the fascists: New York protest forces Proud Boys retreat

Tories can’t be trusted to save lives and protect the NHS - weekly briefing

This government has nothing to offer but U-turns

The government will not deal with the Covid emergency. The labour movement must step up.

The government’s war on the left and anti-racism

A lesson from the teachers: how to take on the government and win

How school workers successfully organised against unsafe conditions

Homeless deaths are rising but the government refuses to act

Capitol security breach shows the government fears left more than right

Why Trumpism must be defeated: reactions to the Capitol chaos

Capitol lockdown: deranged Trump incites US far right in bid to cling onto power - CounterBlast

Our teachers were right, the government was wrong

Schools: the frontline in stopping the Tories and saving lives – weekly briefing

Hospitals in crisis: The Tories are choosing to fail the NHS

Solidarity with education staff: no return until it is safe!

2020: the year the mask fell off

Why are health workers still not getting the protection they need?

Keep schools closed: the rush to return is deadly

The Tories don’t care about students: Erasmus is just another example

Palestine: a Covid Christmas under occupation

The perfect storm: Covid and Brexit merge in Kent - CounterBlast

When Liz Truss speaks a truth, beware

Brazil: the fight for vaccines for all

Cancelled Christmas ends a year of Tory disasters - weekly briefing

Issa Amro update: Palestine’s permanent state of oppression

How to read a way out of the crisis

Covid Christmas crisis: Johnson’s Tories are a plague on all our houses – CounterBlast

Workers of the world… STRIKE! – CounterBlast

Mohamed Bouazizi: the spark that set the Middle East on fire

There is life outside Labour

Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah: how the air that we breathe became a killer

We need to learn from the mistakes of Brexit past

The Tories’ addiction to profit threatens all our lives - CounterBlast

Schools’ Covid Christmas Nightmare - CounterBlast

The spy who never came in from the cold

Venezuela: electoral fightback in America’s ‘backyard’

Brexit paralysis: how did we get here? – weekly briefing

India: Insurrection at the gates of Delhi

Students must stand firm: Palestine solidarity is a duty not a crime – CounterBlast

Antisemitism: football scores an own goal

Not guilty: defend the Bristol activists who tore down Colston

Starmer’s purge turns against Palestine solidarity

Black Lives Matter and the terraces: the defenders take the lead

Setting students up to fail: why exams should be cancelled

Vaccines have no country - CounterBlast

What is behind Starmer's war on the left?

Civil war in the Labour Party – weekly briefing

We are in for more Tory shambles with the Covid vaccine rollout

Philip Green: greed and profit personified - CounterBlast

Institutional racism laid bare: the fight for Justice for Shukri continues

Looters on High #EndSars

Britain's shame: deportation flight goes ahead despite widespread opposition

Johnson hopes vaccines will get him off the hook - CounterBlast

'Worse than prison': shocking treatment of refugees at Napier Barracks exposed

Is there life outside Labour?

Labour's absent opposition, the CRG and scotch eggs - CounterBlast

Windrush continued: the government's mass deportations must be stopped

Will Biden make a difference to the Israeli occupation of Palestine?

Permanent war: Britain’s global military reach exposed

Tiers of a clown – weekly briefing

Growing university staff revolt as Northumbria UCU votes to strike

Hostile environment: how the Tories broke the law to ramp up racism

Why is there £21.5bn more for the military but no money for key workers?

Croydon Council cuts to jobs and services must be resisted

Radical off the pitch: what they don’t tell you about Maradona

Message from Manchester: if you fight you can win

Sunak’s spending priorities: money for the rich, pay freeze for key workers

Keir Starmer's Brexit opportunism

Guatemala protesters force Congress to shelve corrupt budget

Does Starmer want permanent war with the left?

Covid crisis: what are YOU getting for Christmas?

Don’t give up! Educate, organise and fight

Will a Covid vaccine save us?

Bombs and bosses’ bailouts while workers get pay freeze – weekly briefing

Letter to the left: gloves off, time to fight!

Grenfell: blood on the hands of neoliberalism

Scotland: independence, coronavirus and immigration policy

We mustn't be passive observers: help build a fighting left

No money for school meals but Johnson found £16.5bn extra for the military

‘Islamo-leftism’: Macron ramps up attacks on Muslims and the left in France

Johnson reset explodes on the launchpad - CounterBlast

Starmer, Corbyn and the Labour whip: this is a war against the left

Retreating won't stop the attacks on Corbyn and the left

Racism and football: Black Lives Matter, but not for long

Parents know schools are no longer safe: close them now!

The left’s Trump card – weekly briefing

Spycops: the rottenness at the heart of the British State

Manchester action is only the beginning: a Glasgow University perspective

Starmer's purge continues: Bristol members suspended for supporting Corbyn

Cummings’ exit shows how the Johnson administration is falling apart - CounterBlast

Failing black people, Muslims and women: the EHRC isn’t fit for purpose

Imperialism is driven back in Bolivia

Mary Wollstonecraft statue is a poor representation of her radical ideas

Australia: Covid, neoliberalism and the labour movement

Croydon Council has gone bust because of austerity, and the most vulnerable will be made to pay

Vaccine hope is not a substitute for a zero-Covid strategy

Covid vaccine and government contracts: another dose of Tory corruption - CounterBlast

Biden's politics as usual is what produced Trump in the first place

Goodbye, good riddance… get ready – weekly briefing

No capitulation to Starmer's witch-hunt: fight back now

Good riddance Trump, but Biden won’t extinguish Trumpism

This is a lockdown in name only – CounterBlast

After the election, is US foreign policy likely to change?

Trump puts America on fury road to constitutional chaos – CounterBlast

US elections: Trump hasn’t won, but the Democrats have failed

Tory lockdown rebels: a divided party responsible for Covid carnage - CounterBlast

Universities must lock down too

The Tory TfL stitch-up

Crossing red lines: why the establishment wants to destroy Corbyn

Robert Fisk: the journalist who told the truth about imperialism

We need a Zero-Covid strategy: our demands

The half-hearted lockdown from the cabinet of fools - weekly briefing

A national lockdown without closing schools is not going to stop the virus

The Coronavirus crisis amplifies women’s oppression

Defending Corbyn: what's at stake for the radical left

The Polish women's strike is an anti-fascist struggle

The SpyCops bill is an attack on us all: it must be resisted

The attack on Jeremy Corbyn is baseless – there is nothing to support it in the EHRC report

EHRC report: a green light for further attacks on Corbyn and the left which must be resisted

The use and abuse of Black History Month

Stop the war on Yemen: a global protest the warmongers can't ignore

Desperate Trump is threatening constitutional crisis on eve of the election - CounterBlast

Tory splits widen as opposition to No. 10 grows in all quarters - CounterBlast

Wales is renationalising its railways, we can do the same everywhere

Why Black History Month matters

Covid disparities: race is a factor but so is class

France: build the movement against Islamophobia

Free school meals: a Tory tipping point

Holiday hunger backlash turns the tide against Tories - weekly briefing

Tory MPs vote to starve kids: this is what ‘scum’ really looks like

Democracy and class struggle: the mass demonstrations rocking Thailand

Refusing to feed children: Tory contempt for the working class

End Sars: Solidarity with Nigeria protests against state violence

Sunak's latest u-turn shows the Johnson project is falling apart

Republic of Islamophobia: weaponising the tragedy in France for political ends

Divide and rule: why the Tories are imposing Tier 3 on Manchester – CounterBlast

Greater Manchester vs Tier 3 - CounterBlast

Universities are a big part of driving infection rates

Independence requires democratic control

Testing times, but no trace of a government strategy - weekly briefing

Experts’ dissent reflects collapse of coronavirus consensus - CounterBlast

Spy cops bill: Starmer helping the Tory assault on civil liberties

Double trouble: Tory Covid shambles is hastening UK break-up

Against a false dilemma: we can save lives and livelihoods

The cost of culture: rethink, reboot

Warning from the wards: we are not prepared for the second surge

Now it's official: Johnson is denying the science - CounterBlast

The university crisis - Counterfire Students Statement

Teachers care about the safety of our schools; the government doesn’t

No country for old men? – weekly briefing

We need a national lockdown, but that won’t be enough – CounterBlast

New Tory rules on 'anti-capitalist school materials' are an attack on civil liberties

International opposition to the war on Yemen is growing

Macron’s war on ‘Islamic separatism’

Starmer is colluding with Tories to unleash the spy cops - CounterBlast

Justice for Joyce: Canada’s racist healthcare system

Johnson's conference speech: an ode to crony capitalism - CounterBlast

The Tories and Covid, not just incompetent but corrupt

Double trouble: COVID chaos and the neoliberal university

Tory Test and Trace error: a symptom of a failing strategy

Scrap exams to save education

Trump goes viral - weekly briefing

Students and lecturers must unite and fight for people over profit

Flattening the curve isn't good enough, we need a zero-Covid strategy

Boris Johnson's failures are to blame, not our 'complacency' - CounterBlast

Why we need to fight for arts jobs

Wheels are coming off the Johnson bandwagon - CounterBlast

Penally camp: Pembrokeshire unites to boot the fascists out

Johnson's 'Lifelong Learning': all bluster and no solutions - CounterBlast

Put students ahead of profit: the lesson of the Covid-19 outbreak at Scottish universities

When the virus hits a primary school - a teacher's account

Capitalism costs lives: the Boeing disasters

When Towering Inferno meets Groundhog Day - weekly briefing

Taiwan: the US is leading the world to the brink of a new Cold War

Racist America: forced sterilisations of refugee women

PCS was right on the dangers of return to work, the Tories were wrong

International law and Britain’s colony in Ireland

Covid-19 and the struggle in France

Johnson’s disastrous policies will bring return to hundreds of daily deaths - CounterBlast

Students strike for climate as deadly US wildfires rage on

North East: Campaign4SafeSchools Statement

Stop this madness: university campuses are not safe

8 Reasons to reject Sunak’s scheme and keep fighting for the furlough - Counterblast

Protecting war criminals and torturers: the Tory bill and Starmer's shame

Trump is in charge of the political prosecution of Julian Assange

Doncaster reacts to Starmer: 'We don't need another Tony Blair'

‘And seem a saint, when most I play the devil’: Johnson’s dangerously misleading Covid broadcast

Starmer's 'New Leadership': blame Corbyn, offer nothing - CounterBlast

An organised left is crucial as we move towards a second wave - CounterBlast

War feeds the climate crisis

Second time farce, but it will lead to tragedy - weekly briefing

BA: armageddon averted, but the forces of evil are still there

The government is failing to keep schools safe from Covid

Starmer’s empty new slogan

Stronger measures needed to stop second wave - CounterBlast

Over 1,000 schools now have Covid cases, and it’s about to get worse

Lesvos refugee camp fire: a place like Moria should never exist again

Tory failure: the explanation lies beyond stupidity - weekly briefing

'Greatness' In A Time Of Covid

The Serbia–Kosovo Treaty: a servile acquiescence to American imperialism

Urgent action needed to stop resurgent virus - CounterBlast

Serbia and the 'refugee crisis': from good Samaritan to guard of 'Fortress Europe'

The government's letting down NHS workers, it's time to fight back

US wildfires and extreme weather are a warning: we need system change to stop the climate crisis

The official opposition isn't working: is there a new frontline? - CounterBlast

The market crashes: from exam crisis to political crisis

It's Tory failures not young people that have caused the covid spike

Johnson’s latest pandemic plan is more moonshine than moonshot - CounterBlast

The market crashes: Branch Solidarity Network Bulletin September 2020

We must stop the Tories ending the eviction ban

Don't delay: ballot now! - Tunnel Vision September 2020

Labour adrift while the second wave builds - weekly briefing

The Assange case: the people have the power

The Tories still see us as expendable

The ongoing Covid19 testing fiasco - Counterblast

Made in the US: the coup in Chile

Johnson is floundering in a sea of incompetence - CounterBlast

The cost of the Costa Coffee economy - weekly briefing

Business as usual for police brutality

This country is non-functioning: Black Lives Matter resets itself after Kenosha

This town is a ghost town: government pushes re-openings amidst empty city centres - CounterBlast

This Tory is for turning: Boris Johnson’s vacillations

Another day, another U-turn: Boris Johnson is vulnerable - CounterBlast

Jacob Blake and Kenosha: the chickens are still coming home to roost

Gaza under attack: Palestine needs our solidarity

10 things wrong with the government’s return to school 'plan'

Why does capitalism go into crisis? - video

‘Do Not Resuscitate’: the Tories’ deadly contempt for the vulnerable

No refugee Is ‘illegal’

The summer daze of Boris Johnson - weekly briefing

The 'drowned and the saved': why migrant and refugee lives matter

Refugees are not the enemy, the Government is - CounterBlast

Scrapping Public Health England is passing the buck - it's also deadly dangerous

Tory shambles boosts support for Scottish independence

Counter-revolution in the Labour Party and the coming storm

Fight not flight: why the BA deal should be rejected

Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum

The beautiful game?

Dunce’s cap for Williamson, and a big Fail for the exam system - weekly briefing

Kamala Harris is not 'progressive'

Why we need to defund the police and disarm the state

A-Levels fiasco reflects deeper problems with exam factory schooling

Covid-19 in Modi-ruled India: 2.3 million cases and counting

Failing our kids: the Tory exams fiasco

Johnson is bullying schools back into unsafe reopening - CounterBlast

Stop blaming individuals for Coronavirus spikes

Refugee crisis is one of the major legacies of Britain’s recent interventions

Corbyn’s right to fight back, the Labour right sabotaged him

Scottish students shouldn’t be downgraded for being working class

NHS Crisis: a result of Tory cruelty and incompetence

Why the government is to blame, not the people - CounterBlast

NHS workers are taking the fight to the government

You clapped for NHS workers, now support their fight for pay justice

McCluskey: Starmer's decision to settle is a 'huge miscalculation'

TikTok Trump don't stop

Resurgent virus exposes Johnson’s terrible failures – weekly briefing

Life After Corbyn: don’t lose the radicalism

Obesity: a class issue

Mass sackings at BA: it’s time to resist

Regional lockdown puts wealth before health

Health workers march on Downing Street over pay rise betrayal - video

Summer Brexit report: Britain drowns beneath the waves

Portland rises against Trump’s iron heel

Starmer's Panorama drama: an attempt to bury Corbyn's legacy

The Met Police is using software that racially profiles ethnic groups

The virus is still spreading and the most neoliberal countries are the hardest hit

Now is the time: the prospect for a new mass party of the left

A wave of evictions is heading our way: get ready to resist

Prepare for the coming jobs massacre – weekly briefing

App-based drivers will not be taken for a ride

The Starmer supremacy: Labour is now on the wrong side of the struggles that matter

We must resist continuing US aggression towards Iran

The Labour leadership isn’t serious about anti-racism - CounterBlast

The contact tracers tracing contact tracers in Lanarkshire

The Starmer restoration is only just getting into stride

Hoping for a vaccine is not a policy - CounterBlast

Jeremy Corbyn is right to challenge claims of 'institutional antisemitism'

The Russians are coming: the new liberal delusion

Tory logic: clap for nurses but deny them a pay rise

US workers strike for black lives

'Global Britain': the defence review

It’s working people’s good sense versus the government’s nonsense – weekly briefing

Black Lives Matter in a time of pandemic

'It will be over by Christmas' is a dangerous delusion - CounterBlast

A wealth tax is a bare minimum, why is Labour not demanding it?

Dropping Huawei: UK will protect the special relationship whatever the cost

The great stay at home and why it is entirely rational - CounterBlast

‘This is a campaign for all of us’: TfL workers rally against job and service cuts

Authoritarian neoliberalism shows its ugly police face in Serbia

England's dreaming: under Sunak there's no hope of a v-shape recovery

Victims of torture continue to fall through the cracks of the UK’s asylum process

The global picture: Covid cases and deaths continue to rise sharply

Poland Elections 2020: a narrow but dangerous victory for the right

People are desperate for change, why isn't Labour fighting the Tories? - CounterBlast

Tory scapegoating should be resisted

Save lives and jobs: distance yourself from neoliberalism - weekly briefing

Calling all NHS staff: it's time to get organised

Women, coronavirus and austerity

It’s official: there’s no science behind lifting the lockdown - CounterBlast

‘We became a vector for spreading the virus’: an ambulance worker speaks out

The UK is committed to imperialist destruction in the Middle East

Sunak's 'big statement' proved the Tories just don't have a plan - Counterblast

Johnson colludes with Trump to strangle Venezuela

Sunak’s summer budget statement: short-cuts to business as usual - CounterBlast

Scottish independence and class politics

The coming jobs slaughter

UK police: racist to the core - CounterBlast

Macron switches prime minister as his Thatcherite plan flounders

Tory policy: eat, drink, be merry because tomorrow… well you know the rest – weekly briefing

Starmer is moving Labour to the right 'brutally and rapidly': a CLP secretary’s resignation statement

The NHS is 72: why we must fight to defend it

‘Super Saturday’ reopening is reckless and dangerous - CounterBlast

‘Be sensible’ says Boris Johnson as he recklessly ends the lockdown - CounterBlast

Starmer takes Labour right: It's time for an extra-parliamentary left

Boris is playing a grim game - CounterBlast

Garment workers in South India rise up against Covid-linked retrenchment

Hong Kong in crisis

Ernie O'Malley's On Another Man's Wound: books that made me a socialist

We have everything to fear from Johnson’s spin and incompetence - CounterBlast

Five films on the black struggle

The battle is on: and the left can’t win in Labour - weekly briefing

Olive Morris: British Black Panther, squatter and radical activist

The anti-war movement must challenge the imperialist narrative

Sacking Long-Bailey accelerates Labour’s drive to the right - CounterBlast

Starmer’s ruthless at rooting out the left, not antisemitism - CounterBlast

Three years on from Grenfell and people still aren't safe

The UK is systemically racist: the fight has just begun

Maxine Peake is right: US and Israeli state violence is linked

Sacking Long-Bailey is a disgrace: it's proof Starmer is leading a witch-hunt against the left - CounterBlast 25 June

Israel annexation of West Bank will be the final nail in the Oslo Accord

British Airways' betrayal - a fight for all of us

Erasing empire has to end: why schools need to decolonise the curriculum

Johnson is gambling with our lives. Why is Starmer backing the bet? - CounterBlast 24 June

Is this the end for Trump?

The movement that can dump Trump – weekly briefing

Racism is systemic, so why are we still talking about privilege?

For a national fight to defend higher education

Labour's election result: drawing the wrong conclusions - CounterBlast 20 June

Are the Tories just making it up as they go? - CounterBlast 19 June

Don’t let the dust settle on Cecil Rhodes

Imperial undertones of Trump’s hurried deal for the Balkans

Black footballers shame Tory ignorance on poverty and racism - CounterBlast 17 June

The Coronavirus debt: why we shouldn't pay it back

We can win, with or without Labour's help - CounterBlast 16 June

The racist brutality of Canada’s police

Back to school - what we should do differently in education

The good, the bad and the ugly – weekly briefing

Reclaiming our history

Don’t let cynical ploys derail BLM - CounterBlast 13 June

The Tories are at each other's throats, why isn't Labour seizing its chance? - CounterBlast 11 June

UCU members: reject the employers' derisory 'Four Fights' offer

Welsh government's decision on wider school opening goes against its commitment to all

Statues come tumbling down - CounterBlast 10 June

Israel wants to legalise its illegal occupation

Government defeat on schools shows organised resistance can win - CounterBlast 9 June

How Bolsonaro can be beaten - a Brazilian socialist speaks out

Boot the Wellington: The growing resistance to Glasgow's colonial monuments

Tearing down Colston's statue is not destroying history, it is illuminating it

Black people protesting racism are not thugs - CounterBlast 8 June

#BLM: Doncaster steps up

A turning point against racism – weekly briefing

Don't blame the protesters for the virus

Why pulling down Colston's statue was right

On the front line: back to school too soon

40,000 deaths but Johnson pushes us back to work - CounterBlast 5 June

Ten days that shook America

White supremacist in the White House: Trump’s rotten record of racism

Coronavirus: death rate higher if you’re poor and BAME

Brazil: crises, crises and more crises

Heroes today, gone tomorrow: the hypocrisy of the immigration bill

This government wants to follow the money, not the science – weekly briefing

Minneapolis: a popular revolt against racism

Teachers tell Johnson to follow the science - CounterBlast 31 May

The schools’ crisis: what can we expect

Not until it's safe: stay away on 1st June

Confronting the crisis in universities

It’s a big deal that the outrage expressed over George Floyd’s death was massive and multiracial

The Coronavirus Trilemma

Justice for George Floyd: Minneapolis rebels against racist police

5 things the Cummings crisis teaches us which make the country virtually ungovernable - CounterBlast 28 May

The Equal Pay Act at 50: a bittersweet celebration

The China syndrome: why Trump’s obsession could lead to war – long read

Labour’s new Gen Sec proves the right have taken over

Herd today, gone tomorrow? – weekly briefing

Coronavirus: a collective problem that needs a collective response

We won't send our children back until it's safe

TfL price hike: risk your life going to work and pay for the privilege

Neither a rigged market nor Vera Lynn will pick the crops

Do as I say, not as I do: Cummings must go

This crisis has exposed the Tory class for what they're really like - CounterBlast 21 May

Stop the re-opening of York schools on 1st June

Teacher speaks out against government plans for school opening

Lives before profit: learning from the struggle for health and safety in the 1970s

Tube drivers: In dubious battle

Why teachers won't go back until it's safe

Laura Smith: why we should listen to our teaching unions

The revolutionary life and legacy of Malcolm X

The daily deception

A failed government in a failed system – weekly briefing

Crisis capitalism: why state intervention is not socialism

Austerity reloaded: Tories want us to pay for crisis

Conspiracies and capitalism: why we shouldn’t end the lockdown

Let our ‘heroes’ live - don’t end the lockdown

Nakba Day 72 years on: the fight for peace continues

Why does Sadiq Khan say that Transport for London has no money?

Coronavirus statistics lay bare the dire racial inequalities of our society

Why are key workers so low paid?

Protect yourself: how to join a union

The imperialism pandemic

New research shreds Johnson’s 'Covid-secure' workplaces

Doctor speaks out: this isn't freedom, it's a death sentence

Know your rights: if it’s not safe, don’t go back to work

What the people want: rent controls and job guarantees

Johnson’s gamble will cost thousands more lives – weekly briefing

To the slaughter: back to work in a pandemic

Left on our own: a dispatch from the frontline

World War 2: we weren’t all in it together

Total War: realism and fantasy in British Cinema of the 1940s

Reading the Labour Party: book recommendations by and for socialists

After the lockdowns what sort of world economy will emerge?

Coronavirus: a test for Europe

No return to pre-lockdown air pollution

Government failures laid bare by highest death toll in Europe - CounterBlast 5 May

Keir Starmer, don’t pander to Modi's fascist regime and its allies in Britain - SASG statement

Corona and the food crisis: how the markets failed us

Neil Davidson (1957-2020)

Government and opposition: all in it together? – weekly briefing

Safety first: Tube workers fight for our lives

After failing to meet 100,000 tests target, Hancock must resign

The government keeps moving their own goalposts - CounterBlast 1 May

A care worker speaks out on coronavirus and state of care homes

Starmer's Labour: the opposition's gone missing

George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia: books that made me a socialist

Cummings and Sage: 'following the science' was always herd immunity

The crisis within the crisis: refugees and the pandemic

Workers take a minute's silence as defiance grows - CounterBlast 28 April

Lockdown? This government should be locked up – weekly briefing

A minute's silence that will speak volumes - CounterBlast 26 April

Disproportionate BAME coronavirus deaths highlight Britain's systemic racism

Coronavirus is showing that war has never been about security

The Tories are the real criminals - CounterBlast 25 April

I don’t mind working but I do mind dying

The Tories' complete disengagement from what is needed - CounterBlast 24 April

Workers’ Memorial Day: give our frontline workers the PPE they need

Italy's Liberation Day: why the partisans' struggle still matters

Covid-19 testing: too little, too late - CounterBlast 23 April

Republic of hunger: In the time of lockdown

How long can the government distort facts - CounterBlast 22 April

Tories fail to meet already inadequate standards - CounterBlast 21 April

Tory thieves are falling out over the corona crisis: Counterblast 20 April

PPE and testing: not just another Tory scandal

The coronavirus crisis: Britain’s ugly moment of truth – weekly briefing

Lockdown reading on revolution: some novels set in times of great upheaval

The government's callousness is clear for all to see - CounterBlast 19 April

PPE: Tories are still failing our frontline workers - CounterBlast 18 April

Capital’s dilemma: the conundrum of neoliberalism and Covid-19

Learning from the Lockdown: 10 ways UK education should change after the pandemic

Hang your head in shame, Hancock - CounterBlast 17 April

Sir Keir Starmer’s deadly crusade: supporting big business and undermining unions - CounterBlast 15 April

The coronavirus care home crisis: this is what herd immunity looks like - CounterBlast April 14

UK's national scandal: time for accountability and change

The government must commit to end homelessness for good, not just during COVID-19

Orbánism on the march: how power is seized

Chomsky’s Deterring Democracy: books that made me a socialist

Transport workers are frontline workers too

The vacuum that is Labour

Inadequate PPE is a national scandal - CounterBlast 10 April

Covid-19, the state and civil liberties: the case of France

The Easter Rising in words, music and film

When capitalism turns caring for the vulnerable into a burden

It's always us and them - CounterBlast 9 April

In defence of Corbynism

Locking down rights, ramping up hate: fascism and Covid-19 in India

Centrism’s pyrrhic victory - CounterBlast 8 April

How to build your union at your workplace now: a practical guide

Pandemic hammers the US economy

Starmer's Labour takes a sharp right

Coronavirus is exposing the gaping class divide in Britain

Evidence of the Government's neglect is mounting - CounterBlast 7 April

Victoria Park is the People’s Park: reopen it now

It’ll Be Over By Easter: How Trump Became the Covidiot-in-Chief

Invasion of the Body Starmers

New horizons during Covid-19: beyond the limits of capitalist realism

We're not all in it together, your majesty - CounterBlast 5 April

Right turn for Labour – weekly briefing

Do not resuscitate: how the Tories are targeting the weak and old

Coronavirus crisis: is the tide turning against the Tories?

Counterfire statement on Labour's election result

Herd from the hub: a frontline dispatch

A Knight’s leadership heralds a return for the Labour right – CounterBlast 4 April

Null and void: sport in a time of Covid-19

Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time: books that made me a socialist

The politics of hope: Jeremy Corbyn’s legacy

Lockdown crisis in India: a people's perspective of Covid-19

The Matt Hancock Show: government spin and outright lies - CounterBriefing 3 April

Tories find magic money tree after all - CounterBriefing 2 April

Trotsky’s My Life: books that made me a socialist

It’s not business as usual, Secretary - CounterBriefing 1 April

The virus makes you ill but it's the government that kills you

The deadly Tory game of catch-up - CounterBriefing 31 March

Working people shouldn't be penalised for staying at home

Gaza finds itself embroiled in another kind of seige

Staff and workers still remain exposed - CounterBriefing 30 March

Can Johnson gain politically from this crisis? – weekly briefing

Crisis management Tory style - CounterBriefing 29 March

Straight talking honest politics - As It Happened book extract

EP Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class: books that made me a socialist

Test, test, test: the politics of coronavirus in microcosm

Where's Keir Starmer?

The government is prioritising protecting profits - CounterBriefing 28 March

The elephant locked in the room - CounterBriefing 27 March

The right are worrying themselves into helping the left cause

Sunak steps up to sell the self-employed short - CounterBriefing 26 March

Supply chains: a neoliberal crisis

Coroneconomy: What is the economy and what should it be

The sociopathic calculus of capitalism in a crisis

Protect the NHS? Call their bluff and we can win – CounterBriefing 25 March

Pandemic basic income is not the solution

As the coronavirus death toll rises, so does the government’s ineptitude - CounterBriefing 24 March

Boris Johnson's lacklustre lockdown skips key measures - CounterBriefing 23 March

Raining accusations: Ken Loach under attack

Tory arrogance is threatening our lives - weekly briefing

Johnson squandered precious time to deal with Covid-19, NHS workers demand urgent action

Macron and the shockwaves

Message to the government: your friends, the super-rich, are the hoarders - CounterBriefing 21 March

Universal Credit: a coronavirus catch-22

Coronavirus and anti-racism: no scapegoating, no excuses

No more gambles, put people first - CounterBriefing 20 March

Gordon Brown is not our saviour

Criminal negligence while the virus lets rip - CounterBriefing 19 March

The viral bug that crashed the economy

Endless conflicts are deepening Coronavirus crisis

Put people before profit to fight Coronavirus

Protest shut the schools, now demand mass testing - CounterBriefing 18 March

Teachers in New York forced schools to close; we need to do the same

Laugh through the lockdown

Branson's pickle

Lessons from the Spanish flu of 1919: internationalism and people before profit

Stop the profiteering: requisition the private hospital beds

Coronavirus, climate, and capital: capitalism's destructive irrationality

Coronavirus, the market and who controls society? – weekly briefing

St Mungo's workers to begin three-day strike action

US sanctions on Iran are fuelling the spread of coronavirus

Coronavirus, science, and politics

Coronavirus: keep calm and carry on is not a policy but an abdication of responsibility

Sunak just proved you can spend big but still back the rich

Coronavirus: 8 demands we should make on the government

Budget blues – weekly briefing

‘Don’t mourn, organise!’ - Time to rebuild the resistance

10 years of Counterfire

EU-Turkish border crisis spills over to Serbia

Class and the Coronavirus

Afghanistan is a prime example of why 'humanitarian intervention' is a lie

A reader writes: why you should join Counterfire

Trouble at the top – weekly briefing

Coronavirus: how effective are facemasks?

Syrian crisis set to grow deeper as NATO might extend involvement

Notes on the political economy of the imminent Covid-19 pandemic: Conspiracies

Assange trial shows all journalists are now under attack

Dear Extinction Rebellion, the police are not your friends

Chinese are not a virus; racism is

France: Macron stokes up Islamophobia to deflect from the movement to defend pensions

Centre politicians are feeling the Bern – and they don’t like it – weekly briefing

A flood of anger

The setbacks for Palestine solidarity and the need to fight back

The socialist argument against the Tory anti-immigrant offensive

Those enslaved do not feel the benefits of a boom

The pipsqueaks and yellow bellies of 10 Downing Street

No socialist should vote for Keir Starmer

Labour in vain? – weekly briefing

If you love the climate, you hate the Tories: reasons to join the Valentine's Day strike

St Mungo's workers vote overwhelmingly for strike action

The Irish election: the centre has not held and the left can win

Bernie Sanders vs the Democrat establishment – weekly briefing

Trump impeachment: the failure of the Democrat establishment

Ten books to shake 2020

Why Bernie matters

Liverpool takes a stand

As Australia burns, climate strikes set for a new phase

Brazil: the 2013 June Days and the consolidation of the 2018 coup

6 steps toward rebuilding the left

High stakes in UCU strike: another 14 days of action announced

India rises against Modi

Fighting back in France

Now the real solidarity with Europe begins - weekly briefing

Trump’s deal of the century is a catastrophe for Palestinians

The government's attacks on Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are an attack on us all

Jess fails to impress: so what’s next for Labour’s right? – weekly briefing

On Holocaust Memorial Day

SOAS: a call to action to defend education as a public good

Meghan and Harry: the royal descent of an archaic institution

Born to rule over us? – weekly briefing

If Labour wants to win back the working class, it has to reject Keir Starmer

Behind Trump's tantrums: the US, Iran and the continuing threat of war

The Corbyn Project was defeated by the historic strengths of conservatism and liberalism

Lip service to the left, but moves to the right - weekly briefing

War with Iran is still a danger

Our world is burning

Australia fires: where climate inaction leads to

Looking ahead: how the Left can win

Protest has helped define the first two decades of the 21st century – here’s what’s next

1860s: the red thread of working class internationalism

Capitalism and colonialism: hiding the past on stolen land

The class war election

From New Labour to a second referendum: why the north turned blue

Socialists don't do nukes

Why can’t Tony Blair stay away?

The climate election that never happened

Labour's defeat: how it happened

2017 - 2019: what changed?

Past mistakes, future opportunities - weekly briefing

Rebuilding the resistance

Scotland: it's time to break from a broken UK

Young people didn't vote for Boris and they will stand against him

Corbyn is not to blame

Where do we go from here? – election briefing 13 December

We have a world to win – election briefing Polling Day

Junior doctor: The NHS will not survive another 5 years of the Tories

The Cummings campaign: how the Tories embraced Trump’s tactics

Ignore the naysayers and keep fighting – election briefing 11 December

Who needs enemies, with friends like Jon Ashworth?

General Election 2019: a party political broadcast for the Tories

One nation or the one percent? - election briefing 10 December

Ten points to remember before polling day – election briefing 9 December

What are the Greens' true colours?

Decade of austerity: 10 reasons to get the Tories out

Scotland's election

How to read an election

Antisemitism, politics, and voting Tory - election briefing 6 December

France strikes against Macron's neoliberal war on pensions

Boris Johnson should worry about his own families: not ours - election briefing 5 December

The big question: can Trump keep his mouth shut for another 24 hours? – election briefing 4 December

Why we will not be silent on Palestine

Staff-student solidarity is being built in the UCU strike

A low point even for Johnson - election briefing 3 December

The problem with Nancy Astor

Labour and the warmongers – election briefing 2 December

Mental health: a very political crisis

Who knew: 52% of the population matter? - election briefing 29 November

Western Canada's right-wing 'Wexit'

Another reason to protest Trump's visit: recognition of illegal Israeli settlements

Buckle up, the propaganda war’s about to get a lot rougher - election briefing 28 November

The BBC's anti-Corbyn bias shows it's not fit for purpose

Beating the Tories online: effective political campaigning on Facebook

Antisemitism: real news, old news and fake news - election briefing 27 November

On the canvassing trail in Lancashire

Dearlove's recycled attack on Corbyn exposes the right's increasing desperation

Lies, lies and more lies - election briefing 26 November

It's the class question, stupid - election briefing 25 November

Confronting fear during a strike: why picket lines are important in industrial disputes

We need to talk about Nato: an imperialist war machine

The Corbyn effect in Scotland - campaign report

Bolivia: call it a coup, support the resistance

The manifesto that will change the terms of debate - election briefing 22 November

It's official: a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote for a Tory government

No laughing matter - election briefing 21 November

Boris the bully comes up short – election briefing 20 November

Oxford Union violently ejects blind, black student from debate

Time for the big picture - election briefing 19 November

Fire, floods and emergencies: these are what the election is about - election briefing 18 November

Immigration: it’s not about statistics, it’s about racism – election briefing 15 November

Unelected judges deny the right to strike - election briefing 14 November

Boris Johnson: tragedy for the Tories

Flooding misery: the consequences of climate change and austerity

Bolivia: whose side are you on? - election briefing 13 November

The nasty parties unite to stop Corbyn - election briefing 12 November

The world turned upside down - election briefing 11 November

What the government wants us to forget on Remembrance Day

Why have the Greens joined an anti-Labour alliance? - election briefing 8 November

The mask keeps slipping - election briefing 7 November

Rees-Mogg: the ugly face of class privilege - daily election briefing 6 November

Boris Johnson should be booed out of every NHS hospital in Britain

It’s common sense, Jacob Rees-Mogg should be sacked

The battle that will shape a generation – weekly briefing

Labour's right, billionaires shouldn't exist

Trump’s coming to London during the election

How Labour can win the election

Election 2019: the chance for a green industrial revolution

7 black heroes that changed the world

‘Delays have dangerous ends’ – weekly briefing

The hostile environment and Fortress Europe are responsible for the 39 dead

How the British State sabotaged the last left Labour government

Johnson is planning the great escape, Labour mustn’t let him - weekly briefing

“We need to work together”: school student climate striker speaks to trade unionists about the way forward

The devil and the deep blue sea: Labour and Johnson’s deal

US workers strike back: General Motors and Chicago teachers

Police ban on Extinction Rebellion is an attack on our civil liberties

Bosses put the screws on the newly elected Portuguese government to avoid changes to employment laws

Ecuador: the people demand change

Civil liberties in Spain? The clampdown against the Catalan independence movement

Rebellion in the air – weekly briefing

With friends like this: John McDonnell’s flirtation with the right is damaging and inexcusable

Why join Counterfire?

Trump betrays the Kurds: never trust the imperialists

Postal workers stand up to management attacks - Interview with CWU’s Andy Hopping

Pensions: the system isn't working

Waspi women: stung by the state – weekly briefing

Disgraceful and dangerous: European Parliament equates Communism with Fascism

A parliamentary crisis with no parliamentary solution - weekly briefing

Steer left to beat Johnson's phoney populism

Blackface scandal threatens Trudeau's progressive act

Playing by the rules only works if both sides agree - weekly briefing

Hong Kong: crucible of resistance

Why we all have to support the climate strike

Why Labour must not become a hard remain party

Bolton’s gone but an oil war could be about to start - weekly briefing

Kids in containers: austerity hits new depths

The planet is on fire: build the climate strike

Labour’s Brexit slide

Netanyahu and Pence: Boris Johnson's warmonger allies

Labour and a ‘national government’: how to dash the hopes of millions

Something in the air? The strike action in aviation

Tom Watson is undermining Labour – it’s time to cut him loose

We need a general election now, whether it’s in the ‘national interest’ or not

The Boris burnout - weekly briefing

Johnson’s rottweiler: the toxic tactics of Dominic Cummings

Labour can only expose Johnson if they represent a radical opposition

General election: unite and fight

Their democracy and ours – weekly briefing

No confidence in anti-democratic Boris Johnson

Westminster is broken, it's time for Scotland to quit

Corbyn can't win if Labour won't bring down the government

“Life-long member of the non-pretty working classes” - All Woman review

Trump’s trade wars: battle of the giants - weekly briefing

The Amazon fire: a neoliberal crime scene

A new global recession is coming

Are the liberal middle class on the verge of a nervous breakdown?

Border chaos: why Priti Patel's plans can be stopped

The Tories' vision: work until you die

Where is the love?

Vote with your feet – weekly briefing

Boris Johnson’s law and order proposals are a scam

The poisonous politics of Priti Patel

Johnson out, Corbyn in: we need a general election – weekly briefing

The refugee crisis: the situation worsens in Greece

Keeping Faith - review

Johnson can be beaten, but not if we abandon Corbyn – weekly briefing

In the age of Trump, 'The War at Home' remains essential viewing

Despite the media consensus, Corbyn’s position on Brexit is the right one

The Centenary of the 1919 Race Riots

Lindsey German's August reading recommendations

Sudan: fury on the streets

The internal Tory coup, the cabinet of horrors, and class war - weekly briefing

Iran: stop this war before it starts

Boris' brash band: balancing business and bluster

Fight back before it's too late - Years and Years review

The Tories have no divine right to lead

Nightmare time: why the left has to come out fighting – weekly briefing

What do they know of Cricket?

‘I am not what I am’: why the left must take action against ‘Iago’ Watson

There’s only one solution to Labour’s problems: the right have got to go - weekly briefing

Universities take global steps to fight climate disaster

The environmental cost of the United States war-machine

Football as resistance: women kicking back against bigotry

BBC Panorama hatchet job on Labour antisemitism is a farce

Labour's lost Leave voters

Adopting the IHRA definition didn't end the attacks, it accelerated them

Greece elections: the right is back in government

A dangerous moment for the Corbyn project - weekly briefing

Socialists should be trying to unite working people, not divide them - a reply to Paul Mason

The problem with citizens’ assemblies

Be clear: the moves against Chris Williamson are moves against Corbyn

The left needs to hold the line and fight the smears – weekly briefing

A Canadian genocide

For Palestinians, existence is resistance

Tory values meet the rights and wrongs of women - weekly briefing

The dog didn’t bark, but it’s not been silenced: Labour’s Brexit policy

Iran: act now to stop Trump’s dogs of war

Why Iranians might be sceptical of the west's intentions

The poverty of anti-corruption politics

President Mohamed Morsi: murdered by the thug El Sisi

Iago Watson strikes again

Iran - unrepentant warmongers and gullible fools are at it again: weekly briefing

The London working class have not forgotten Grenfell

Rubberboat in a sharkpool: Tories exploit the Assange case

Grenfell: justice delayed is justice denied

Boris Johnson as Prime Minister should not be tolerated

How the left can take the initiative

Pompeo threatens Corbyn: nothing to see here

Cracking up… in every sense of the word - weekly briefing

British Steel: the wanton destruction of a core industry

General election now: why 100,000 Tories will be wrong

Sinn Fein: tumbling into the centre

No to Trump, no to war on Iran

Ten things they don't tell you about D-Day

‘If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they’d send a limousine anyway’ – weekly briefing

Alastair Campbell isn’t a victim, he’s trying to destroy Corbyn’s leadership

Send in the clowns - weekly briefing

Trump's America: women under attack

Why Theresa May is the most disastrous Tory PM ever

Ruskin and the trade union movement

The Brexit delusion: why you should vote Labour

Milkshakes, moralism, and the rationalist error

Brexit, Boris and the battle ahead - weekly briefing

Algeria revolts: what are the next steps?

Anti-Zionism is the antidote to Trump and Netanyahu

It's time for the Labour left to step up to the plate

There is something happening here but you don’t know what it is, do you Mr Centrist?

An insurgent right can only be fought by an insurgent left – weekly briefing

Spring into sport

Why we're marching for Palestine on 11 May

Israel's attacks on the Palestinians started before any rockets

The social cost of austerity is detrimental to us all

Gaza under attack: why we must stand up for Palestine

Theresa’s Titanic can’t be rescued by Labour - weekly briefing

What happened in the Venezuela coup attempt, and why the threat remains

We need the labour movement to win the fight against climate change

Solidarity with Palestine is needed now more than ever

Peabody: moral lepers in Charityland

Spanish election: the left win but society polarises

An election we thought we wouldn’t have, and a vote we shouldn’t have – weekly briefing

Counterfire statement on UCU election for general secretary

Bernie Sanders 2020: what difference can he make this time?

Creggan and the death of Lyra McKee

Conservative ‘Blue Wave’ sweeps across Canada

Thank God it's Friday: 300 years of Robinson Crusoe

Cardiff rallies in solidarity with Kurdish hunger strikers

Extinction Rebellion: a movement recharged

The left needs to stop retreating over the use of the term Zionism

Israeli elections: apartheid or apartheid-lite

It’s badly wrong when whistleblowers rot in jail but war criminals walk free - weekly briefing

Resisting climate catastrophe: the kids are still leading the way

No to extraditing Assange, no to war

What happens to Julian Assange has implications for us all

Brexit delayed: now what?

Seven demands for stopping climate change

What's to blame for knife crime?

Referendum: first time farce, second time tragedy – weekly briefing

The Picture of Dorian Trudeau

Strike to demand action on climate change

Knife crime and youth violence: poverty, powerlessness and a way ahead

Algerian uprising ousts President Bouteflika – and it isn’t stopping there

Soldiers taking aim at Corbyn is a result of years of lies and vilification

Venezuela: The US empire is on the march again

Bungled Brexit beggars belief - weekly briefing

Honda closure: workers test drive the alternative

Brexit chaos and the far right: the racists must be stopped in their tracks

March for Palestine: exist, resist, return

Brexit deadlock: the only way out of this mess is a general election

The Honda Swindon factory closing warrants an effective labour movement response

A Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank merger spells trouble

The Brexit crisis is so deep because it is about much more than Europe

A Marxist guide to crime drama

She’s going down: now is not the time to prop up the Tories – weekly briefing

Brexit and the left: the crisis is not going away

Why stopping wars is essential for stopping climate change

Brexit crisis continued: Theresa May's inept authoritarianism

Who's to blame for the rise of Islamophobic terrorist attacks?

Hebron – the heart of the occupation

Don’t criminalise and scapegoat our homeless rough sleepers with PSPOs: blame Tory austerity

Call it by its name: Islamophobia, and it comes from the top – weekly briefing

School climate strike: students shut down Newcastle

US military: the world's biggest polluter

Global school strike for climate kicks off

Bloody Sunday: one prosecution is not justice

Brexit delayed: general election now!

Tony Benn: socialist, comrade, friend

May's Brexit deal is dead: we need a general election now

When Watson and Hodge represent Labour we know we’re in trouble - weekly briefing

A slow coup against Corbyn has started. We must stand up against it.

Bloody Sunday: criminal? Yes.

The Making of a Two Tone Nation

5 facts about Aipac and the Israel lobby that prove Ilhan Omar is right

Islamophobia is the dominant form of racism: why is it being ignored?

Labour and antisemitism: separating facts from fiction

Labour pains: Watson, witch-hunts and what we do next - weekly briefing

John Pilger on the role of Nato in Europe

Conflating anti-Zionism and antisemitism - Macron’s dangerous game

Manchester's new councillors and the fight against austerity

India and Pakistan must pull back from the brink of war - SASG statement

The attack on Chris Williamson is an attack on Corbyn and the left

The second referendum delusion

Labour backing a second referendum is a mistake

Venezuela faces US-led intervention as Haiti struggles to break free

May delays again, and it’s all about holding the Tories together - weekly briefing

Red light for Amber

The strategy and tactics of Labour’s Brexit manoeuvring

Time to talk about Palestine

Is Sajid Javid's deprivation of Shamima Begum's citizenship legal?

How to deal with defectors – keep left

Revoking Shamima Begum’s citizenship is unjustifiable

The left should take note: attack is the best form of defence

Chuka's core values: privatisation, austerity and war

The insignificant seven: what the left must do

Austerity and the damage done: the crisis in mental health care

School's out for the Tories – weekly briefing

Sudan's uprisings have removed governments before, can they do it again?

Learn to conform or learn to transform?

1919: When British soldiers went on strike

Rees-Mogg's Imperial Denialism

Ten things you should know about Trump’s man in Venezuela

Corbynistas! Up your game, or lose the game

Student strikes and climate change: demanding action not words

From toy drones to real ones: the arms trade and education

Sudan: the struggle continues

And your enemies closer? - weekly briefing

Deportation flights: Tories have learned nothing from Windrush

Luciana Berger and the plot against Corbyn: this is no time to retreat

What would a ‘Green New Deal’ look like in Britain?

Marx's name endures through the ages, and the vandalism

Better to overthrow the system than try to outsmart it: review of ITV's Cleaning Up

Marx in Engels' words

There's no limit to nuclear war – weekly briefing

Lambeth says 'keep our NHS public!'

Cameroon: neo-colonised before independence

Labour’s immigration fudge – pandering to the right doesn’t work

7 things you need to know about the Venezuela coup attempt

Venezuela in the shadow of Trump

Venezuela: a coup made in Washington: not for the first time – weekly briefing

Saying never again means resisting in the present

Dangerous sheriff in the wild west: Trump calls for coup in Venezuela

Why I won't speak at the Oxford Union

Why does the Oxford Union insist on inviting fascist speakers?

It’s austerity, stupid

Tories don’t want May’s deal, but they fear Labour: now’s the time to stand firm – weekly briefing

Israeli Eurovision boycott: let the battle begin

Europe in revolt

US Shutdown: Trump’s racism hits the wall

Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and the 100 year revolution

The meaning of the Yellow Vests

There's no refugee crisis in Britain, only a hostile environment and racist scapegoating

Trump's Syria solitaire

Movement gears up for fightback against austerity

Rosa Luxemburg: a revolutionary for our times

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist

Standing on the shoulders of a giant: Rosa Luxemburg and The Mass Strike

The travesty that is Theresa May’s government has to end – weekly briefing

Luther – Marx’s theory of alienation or biblical redemption?

New wave of protests in Serbia – opening new horizons?

Brexit: the uncivil war - review

Obituary - Bruno da Ponte: 1932 - 2018

Bigger than Brexit - weekly briefing

12 reasons to protest on Saturday for a General Election Now

Looking back at 2018: a year of protest in pictures

Europe in turmoil: what to expect in 2019

‘No Christmas for the bourgeoisie’: Protests erupt across Europe at the close of 2018

Climate chaos is the most political issue of our time, to stop it we need systemic change

Operation Cast Lead: the 22 day massacre in Gaza

EastEnders at Christmas

Ten radical Christmas songs

The Tories want a national government because they want to break Corbyn - weekly briefing

The time is ripe for Irish unity – on both sides of the sea

The establishment seems to have forgotten we live in a parliamentary democracy: let's remind them

Whether Theresa May wins or loses this no confidence vote, her time is up

There's only one way out of this mess, and that’s a general election – weekly briefing

Yellow Vests, Act Four: where is France going?

West Wales' warning to the Tories

Why we don’t need a second referendum

Austerity Britain is destroying our mental health

Why you should be on the protest that could bring down the government

Migrant Caravan attacked: new leaders, same racism

The far right can be stopped

Class questions are the way to defeat austerity, not a rerun of the referendum - weekly briefing

Averting chaos: class, climate change and the movements

5 things a Corbyn government can't do if we stay in the EU

The rise and fall of neoliberalism

Equating fascism with Brexit is disastrous, irresponsible and gives a hand up to Tommy Robinson

It’s still not a done deal – whatever May, Tusk and Juncker want to tell you - weekly briefing

About time to kick the Tories out

Stop bombing Yemen

Food banks gone, rough sleeping gone: this is what the end of austerity should look like

Students protest in Albania: internationalist alternatives in the Balkans

Israel's crimes cannot go unanswered

Jeremy Corbyn joins teachers to demand an end to education cuts

All hands on deck to save Theresa May’s ship from sinking – but what we need is a change of government - weekly briefing

A state of disunion: Europe after Brexit

Is austerity over? The picture from the North East shows it isn't

May's Brexit deal is a dead duck: the only option now is a general election

The politics of Remembrance

A hundred years after WW1, what are we remembering?

A Marxist analysis of Eastenders

Trump loses Congress, but the Democrats are not the winners

World War One was stupid, tragic and futile

Excising its credibility: Labour’s dilemma over top rate tax - weekly briefing

The public supports urgent action on climate chaos: it's government that is failing

No platform for Alice Weidel in Oxford

Germany after Merkel: how the right can be beaten

Britain is broken: we can't afford the Tories

Informer review: more Islamophobia, or a complex study of the modern-day East End underworld?

Why we say no to a second referendum

From stop and search to 'hands up, don't shoot'

Migrant Caravan: Trump sends 5000 troops to stop refugees

Brazil election: Bolsonaro's victory and the struggle ahead

Talk about equality is cheap, but paying women a decent wage is much too costly - weekly briefing

Philip Green: an embodiment of the system not an anomaly

Tommy Robinson and the far right must be driven out of mainstream politics now

How to influence people: Saudi Arabia, Yemen and British bombs

The Cry: capitalism ruins families - TV review

Doncaster says no to cuts

A march more about attacking Labour than challenging the Tories – weekly briefing

Be clear: Tommy Robinson is a violent, fascist thug

The far right, grooming gangs and racist lies

Universal Credit: the cruellest cut

Kavanaugh, Trump and the degradation of US politics

We must stop Universal Credit now: it's already wrecking lives

The Tories are destroying our schools, we need a socialist education policy

Brexit breaking point: it May be the end of this government - weekly briefing

The Bolsonaro effect: what now for Brazil?

Adieu, Nikki Haley (but she’ll be back…)

Tommy Robinson and the British army: time to fight back

Amazon's pay raise is a tactical retreat as workers fight back

Another World Mental Health Day, another hollow Tory proposal

Decarbonisation, jobs and justice

France in 1968: myths, realities and unanswered questions

Taking control is the way to end the misery of 21st century work - weekly briefing

The Brazilian elections and the fight against the far right

Corbyn and the mainstream media: a case-study in fake news

The dialectics of Doctor Who

Tories out! Birmingham marches against austerity

Austerity has broken Britain but the Tories are still committed to it

The 'Heart of Darkness' does not 'smell of victory'

Trump targets Iran: not just talk, this is serious

Ship, iceberg... you know what happens next - weekly briefing

The rhyming guide to austerity

The trial of Golden Dawn and the resurgence of the far right

Justice for Palestine: a report from the Labour Party conference

The left is growing: why the setbacks at Labour conference?

If Labour backs a second referendum, the whole Corbyn project will be in danger of defeat

The neverendum won’t help Labour, but it will help the right - weekly briefing

No business as usual: Trump’s trade wars

Why the Labour left must hold the line at conference

Minding the depth and breadth - a Labour conference reading list

Is the Labour Party a machine or a movement?

The deep state vs. Jeremy Corbyn: three decades of spying, smearing, and intimidating

Cricklewood attack: it’s not terrorism if it’s Islamophobic

The importance of mass mobilisation against war

Why is the West so silent on Yemen?

Aftermath: Art in the wake of World War One - review

To be called a political artist is no insult - Rachid Taha tribute

Learnt nothing and forgotten everything: the next crash is coming - weekly briefing

Fighting the oppression of housing regeneration

Taking back the city: direct action amid the Dublin housing emergency

Football Lads and Lasses against Fascism

Labour, antisemitism and the damage done

Military propaganda must end

Is Israel a racist endeavour?

The TUC are wrong about a second referendum

Sweden’s elections and the mounting far right threat in Europe

Boris is going for brutal Brexit - weekly briefing

It's time to fight back: help launch Counterfire Media

UK councils invest over £9bn in fracking industry

The attacks on Corbyn can only end if they're confronted

The Palestinians deserve better than this – weekly briefing

We cannot compromise on the NEC code of conduct on antisemitism

What Frank Field's resignation tells us about the Labour right's slow coup

National Unity Demonstration against Racism and Fascism: unite against the right

Toronto rally confronts Zionist slanders

It's time to stand up and be counted - what defending Corbyn really means

Why summer holidays are a time of dread and not joy for many families

Turkey police attack Saturday Mothers vigil

When the lying has to stop – weekly briefing

Take the fight to the right and make this time ours - national meeting

Rural activism: tales from the sticks – part two

Why Israel is an apartheid state

Inequality and the City: CEO salaries soar while we still pay for the crash

Back the NEC code: why compromising is the wrong thing to do

Don’t look here, look there: the one percent, inequality and Jeremy Corbyn - weekly briefing

The summer of climate chaos

The dominant ideas in society

We’ve seen the largest rise in poverty since Thatcher: resistance is a necessity

Beyond the veil: some context in the controversy over the burqa

Victory for campaigners as Serco evictions postponed

Tensions in the Balkans: is Serbia preparing to recognise Kosovo?

The UN has condemned Britain 16 times in the last decade and here’s why

Frida Kahlo: artist and revolutionary

Boris and the burqa: taking a cue from the EU

How did socialists respond to the advent of fascism?

Defend Jeremy Corbyn: time to fight back - Counterfire statement

Solidarity with Bookmarks shows a united left can take on the far right

Unclear and divisive: not the deal our NHS workers deserve

Eyewitness account of Israeli attack on aid boat to Gaza

Boris Robinson and Tommy Johnson: two sides of the same racist coin – weekly briefing

The dynamics of disaster

Stand firm in attacks against Corbyn, or lose the fight

Interest rates, wages and the UK economy

The attack on Bookmarks was an attack on us all

Why fascists hate trade unions

Hodge case shows why Labour Right needs to be confronted - and defeated

Zimbabwe after Mugabe: his successor struggles to maintain grip on power

Post PCS pay ballot blues

Antisemitism: what the left should say – weekly briefing

Ahed Tamimi released! What her story tells us about Palestinian resistance

Lies, damned lies, and Tory press releases

Dear Amber Rudd, we're not left behind, we're being held back

Failed: what two decades of the refugee crisis could not teach Europe

Libya: chaos reigns seven years on

Imran Khan: Pakistan's new anti-war Prime Minister?

Antisemitism and apartheid

The Greek fires: a catastrophe fuelled by austerity

Closed for business: Chinatown goes on strike

Is Corbyn's Brexit policy really 'full Trump'?

Steve Bannon: international orchestrator of the alt-right

Frankenstein at 200

Together against Trump: a mass show of opposition

Now is the time to join Counterfire

The EU: As racist in deed as Trump

Spy Kids: children being used for covert ops

Israel enshrines apartheid into law

Brexit and the left, two years on

Trump's trade delusion

PCS Ballot: the fight for decent pay is hotting up

We stopped Trump

Grenfell: First the injury, now the insults

The meaning of Trump

Only a united movement can defeat the far right

Why we should all be out protesting against Trump's visit to the UK

After the final days of May

May Day, May Day: this ship is sinking – weekly briefing

Why Trump won't forget his visit

Trump’s Nato ultimatums: red letter or red herring?

From fake news to fake demonstrations; the rise of the 'extreme centre'

Success for England will mean what we make it mean

The human rights abuses that couldn't be closer to home – weekly briefing

The real danger behind Trump's antics and why he is not indestructible

To celebrate, but also to defend: be on the streets for our NHS this Saturday

Homelessness is rapidly rising - it's the product of a failed system

You’ll never edit Grenfell

All roads lead to the Trump protest on 13 July – weekly briefing

Marxism and human nature

Socrates: Brazil's football revolutionary

If a week is a long time in...

Trump’s state-sponsored child abuse

Justice for Grenfell: breaking the silence

The collapse of everything, and what to do about it - weekly briefing

Now it’s serious: why taking on Trump matters

The EEA: the worst of all possible worlds

World Cup 2018: thirty two nations under a groove

The far right threat is real and we can't be complacent

The far right can be defeated, and mass organisation is the key – weekly briefing

Dump Trump and the special relationship, too

Our NHS: keep the fight on the streets

May Days: a benefit for Grenfell

They shall not pass: all out on 9th June

Europe: time to look reality in the face - weekly briefing

PCS union: smash the pay freeze

After Irish referendum victory, we must fight further to expand women’s rights

We cannot let Iran become another US powder keg

Town and country attitudes

Karl Marx: before all else a revolutionist

UCU: we are the union

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The Italian coup and the growing crisis in the EU

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Marx200: the Paris Commune and the Marx family

Grenfell one year on - the Tories still don't care

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University of Bristol students march for mental health services

Ireland's opportunity for equality

Crisis in Italy

Hundreds stand up to the FLA in Manchester

Too rich to fail - weekly briefing

Change is coming: be a part of it

Two sides of a city: homelessness and the royal wedding

The royal wedding: a grateful subject gives thanks

Royal wedding alienation

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Be part of a socialist organisation committed to fundamental change

Childish Gambino: This is Trump’s America

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The first twelve months of Project Macron: a provisional audit

The most leftwing Labour leader doesn’t need advice from the most unsuccessful one - weekly briefing

50 years after 1968: Storms raging in Macron’s France

Trump's ditching of Iran deal is paving the way to war

The phoney war must end: crossing the Brexit Rubicon

Was Marx an economist? What was his contribution to economics?

Why Paul Mason is wrong about Marx

Marx matters more than ever - weekly briefing

Local elections: for the left, standing still is losing ground

Rural activism: tales from the sticks – part one

Marxism in 800 words

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Rudd down, May to go

This rudderless government deserves a hostile environment – weekly briefing

Windrush and antisemitism: who’s weaponising what?

Systemic Islamophobia in Britain has deadly consequences

Amber Rudd Must Go

So called 'moderates' are the enablers of the far right

Resisting the republic of fear: protesters take on Modi

NHS at 70: celebrate and defend our health service on June 30

Racism starts at the top in Britain, and we’re seeing the result with Windrush - weekly briefing

Marx and the national question

Justin Trudeau's dirty deeds for dirty oil

The Windrush scandal: It's time to deport Theresa May from office

Nationwide opposition to Syria airstrikes

The idea that the West have been “inactive” in Syria is completely untrue

BBC Proms takes a step towards equal gender representation

The mission accomplished that is nothing of the sort – weekly briefing

Kentucky school teachers: why we're walking out on strike

Six things we learnt from the Syrian airstrike

Syria: the solution is not more military intervention

France Insoumise: What is it and where is it going?

Gordon Brown, Scottish Labour and independence

Brazil: Neoliberalismo versus Democracy (Portuguese Version)

Douma attack and the war in Syria - Stop the War statement

Lies, damn lies, and Boris Johnson - weekly briefing

The Salisbury incident: facts not necessary

The case to vote 'no' in the UCU ballot and how we can win

Emmanuel Macron: Neoliberalism by the book

Basic Income: progressive cloak and neoliberal dagger

France also: a cynical attempt to divide anti-racism in the service of the government right

Reject the UUK deal: we need to fight now

Jeremy Corbyn isn't antisemitic: we should stop being defensive about it

When the ruling class can't rule in the old way - weekly briefing

The NHS pay offer is divisive and insulting

University strikes: employers’ retreat needs to be nailed down

What's happening in Catalonia is an assault on democracy

John Bolton: the return of the uber hawk

The UCU dispute: a lesson in the power of collective action

Skripal coverage: reporting, purporting and contorting

NHS: stop the backdoor privatisation

Corbynism was to a large extent a response to Pasokification

The government's stance on Salisbury is a big gamble - weekly briefing

Why was Marielle Franco assassinated?

The Face of Modern Racism

The problem is jingoism, not conspiracism

Are we having a party or a moment?

Between the Scylla of ‘Pasokification’ and the Charybdis of 'Syrizification’ – and how to avoid both

The SNP, Russia and the turn to the establishment

Belgrade’s municipal elections: a class analysis

As a trans woman, this is the unity I want to see

Corbyn is right about Russia, it is time for a new foreign policy

Russia hysteria, the establishment, and the left

Time's up Theresa

Lecturers' strike update: no capitulation

We must say no to the single market

'If women stop, the world stops': a view from the mass women’s strike in Spain

Lecturers' strike update: together we can win

The lecturers' strikes started in winter but are finishing in spring - weekly briefing

Sylvia Pankhurst and the working class suffragettes

The gender pay gap is a disgrace

From a community of scholars to purveyor of degrees: the changing face of the university

For International Women’s Day my hero is Ahed Tamimi

The War? The Suffragettes? How did women win the right to vote?

Lecturers strike massive blow

Lecturers' strike: interview with a QMU striker

Saudi Prince not welcome: demonstrate against his visit

On the Australian equal marriage plebiscite: beyond defeatism, moralism and the politics of scarcity

Behind every ‘successful’ woman there’s another woman doing the work - weekly briefing

Germany: why did the SPD membership vote for the coalition?

Why we’re heading for another economic crash

Austerity: Osborne’s sickening complacency

Environmental entropy is inescapable in capitalism

Lecturers' strike: Deepen the action, spread the support

Back to the future? The possibility of a new arms race

In defence of Stormzy

Brexit and change

Time for Action - UCU Strike

The Corbyn Moment

Against the marketisation of our education

The return of idealism: identity and the politics of oppression

Picturehouse dispute: how far will Nero go?

You don't hate snow, you hate capitalism

Europe: why retreat must not turn into defeat for the left - weekly briefing

What you can do to support the lecturers' strike

The Czech spy claim is a re-writing of Labour's history

What does Corbyn's Brexit speech really mean?

Forget the Arctic conditions: our universities are on fire

American Carnage: Students Defy Trump’s Cult of Violence

Farming and free movement: a socialist approach to the crisis  

Solidarity with striking lecturers - resolution

Why we strike: why lecturers need your support

'Making France great again': Macron to bring back compulsory military service

The radical case against the single market is no myth

The false dream of Europe threatens the left - weekly briefing

Economic murder: homeless man dies outside Parliament

Westminster and the Brexit bubble

Brexit: the need for independent working-class, anti-capitalist politics

Unco-operative capitalism - weekly briefing

The SPD is dead: long live the grand coalition!

Automation: the future, but what future?

Building Counterfire

Will Trump’s UK visit be the end of the special relationship?

Despatches from the Tory civil war – weekly briefing

Homelessness: a crisis of epic proportions

Iolo Morganwg and the making of nationalisms

Carillion, Capita and the death of a dogma

Palestine: the open wound

Why we protest

Grenfell: the community is still fighting to have its voice heard

The problem of relativisation

Obituary of anti-apartheid jazz legend Hugh Masekela (1939-2018)

All the President’s men are symbols of our times - weekly briefing

Surviving the Death Factory: communist resistance in Auschwitz

We need real solutions, not tickboxing and tokenism

An anti-war government: a formation whose time has come

Scavenger capitalists - weekly briefing

Frances O’Grady puts workers’ rights in the hands of the EU

Residents told they can't be safe until they pay £2m by multimillionaire landlord

False alarm in Hawaii: Trump and nukes keep the world on edge

Frankenstein at 200

Carillion: two kinds of bailout, two class interests

Look who isn't coming to dinner - weekly briefing

The NHS crisis is deliberate

Trump visit: We've confronted the Special Relationship

The second coming of the referendum

Jeremy Hunt should have been sacked, not promoted

NHS Emergency Demonstration - model resolution

Macron: Europe's new Blair

The antidote to a very weak but very nasty government - weekly briefing

Neither Washington Nor Moscow: origins and applying it today

Toby Young: How deeply has the rot set in?

Beyond a joke: Trump vs Bannon

White working class boys: aspiration's not the issue

Corruption and Crisis in Peru

Toby Young: may contain offensive material

Obituary: A Sivanandan (1923-2018)

Stop HDV: social housing, social cleansing and grassroots resistance

Why are people in Iran protesting?

Ahed Tamimi's indictment paints a clear picture of apartheid Israel

2018: the way forward

We were many: A review of 2017

Ahed Tamimi: the 16-year-old Palestinian girl Israel is afraid of

Catalonia needs a grassroots mobilisation for the Republic

Damian Green resigns: No strength or stability in May's government

Institutional racism encouraged the murder of Bijan Ebrahimi

“Building a Republic from the bottom up”: A view from the Catalan left - interview with Quim Arrufat

Where is Germany heading?

No one likes neoliberalism: the year that the mask slipped – weekly briefing

Alabama: you cannot be a socialist and an elitist

From Bah Humbug to Oh Jeremy Corbyn: a review of Christmas politics books

Walking to Hell

The prevalence of Islamophobia: a Europe-wide phenomenon

I'm a Palestinian from Jerusalem, where's my say?

The Irish Question, the EU and the debate about borders - weekly briefing

Trump - Year One

Liberal Media in the Age of Trump: shock and awe

Save our village from Israeli bulldozers: an open letter from Susiya

Today’s fringe is tomorrow’s respectable racism - weekly briefing

Theresa May went to Saudi to encourage, not to condemn

Extreme Podiatry: the situation for refugees in Calais and Dunkirk

Rosa Luxemburg on the politics of poverty and homelessness

Man gets engaged to woman

Terror in Egypt, Islamophobia in Britain

Charges dropped against activists that shut down Israel arms factory

A life sentence of low wages and public sector cuts - weekly briefing

Terrell Decosta: police under scrutiny

Labour needs a new foreign policy

Why socialists should support Catalonia

Reactions to Budget 2017: resisting Foodbank Britain

Autumn Budget: the misery continues

Trump: one year of waking hell

A Scrooge Christmas on the cards - weekly briefing

The truth about the Football Lads Alliance

Barcelona: football against fascism

Scottish Labour ditches the right

The student fightback against cuts is just beginning

Not fit to govern

Catalonia: resistance lights the path to victory

Post-modern Trumpism and loneliness: the rise of vulgar authoritarianism

How and why I write

Derek Robinson (1927 - 2017): Birmingham steel

Taking sides in the next major Middle East war - weekly briefing

Friends of Israel: influencing British politics

The many crises of the British state

The Israel Factor: Priti Patel and Emily Thornberry

The Tories are falling apart, but we must act to push them out

Saudi faction fight: break Britain's links

The Paradise Papers show us the true nature of the monarchy

Catalonia: a reading list

We are the Republic: Catalans back on the streets for freedom

We need a new foreign policy built around peace

Sex, power, and money: parliament and politics - weekly briefing

The return of the S-word in the US

Every revolution needs some smashing plates

The EU and Catalonia: A non-epic tale of hypocrisy, hand-wringing, and getting it wrong

Letter to Theresa May from a Palestinian refugee

Thomas Muntzer: From Reformation to Revolution

Ten arguments around Catalan independence

Catalonia: a test case for Europe - and the left - weekly briefing

Catalan independence: made in the streets

Counterfire Resolution: Solidarity with the Republic of Catalonia

Racist Trump will never be welcome here

Balfour 100 years on - nothing to celebrate

Universal Credit: pausing is not enough, abolish it

Theresa May's government is busy doing nothing, but we're still suffering - weekly briefing

BDS: a response to the University of Manchester's Balfour Celebration

Universal Credit: gross incompetence or calculated cruelty?

The seeds of their own destruction? - weekly briefing

We must drive the Tories out

Why I took on Jacob Rees-Mogg and his despicable views on austerity

As postal workers come out fighting, employers try to use law to stop them

Russia and imperialism today

Tories down and demoralised: time to hit them hard - weekly briefing

The hype machine: employers and threats of automation

The Spanish state has ensured Catalonia's exit

Robots and AI: utopia or dystopia? - part 3

Catalonia: why paper won against rock

Catalonia: a new state is being born

Solidarity with the people of Catalonia

Mehmet Aksoy remembered: Peace in Kurdistan salutes the activist and film-maker

Robots and AI: utopia or dystopia? – part two

Trump’s racist war on US football

Corbyn's a winner, but this is only the beginning of the fight - weekly briefing

The clock is ticking

The deadliest of games:  the US and North Korea

Robots and AI: utopia or dystopia? part one

BA strike: no backing down after 85 days

Uber: not fit, not proper

Trump's UN speech: a new low for the president

Big problems need some big answers: and this government has none

Resisting 'America’s first white president': Ta-Nehisi Coates and the politics of despair

Namibia, diamonds, copper, gold and uranium. Also worms

A very British coup: May's power grab

A society which cannot deliver the basics has to be changed - weekly briefing

North Korea: the United States seek power rather than peace

Football from below

The impending crisis for Macron

Striking while the iron is hot is the only way to win back some of what’s been taken from working people - weekly briefing

No level playing fields at Eton

Are books in schools for reading or for balancing?

Labour's Brexit mistake

North Korea: moving towards the threat of real war

If it ain't broke, don't fix it: the dangers of Keir Starmer's new policy on Brexit - weekly briefing

Beauty, a dark history, and class conflict

Trump and Afghanistan: extended carnage

Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust: Joe Strummer remembered

Chaos in the White House - weekly briefing

Birmingham bin strike: the dust settles… for now

Bannoned: the White House in turmoil

Sarah, you're no champion of equality

Suez Sita’s brand of eco-capitalism is a trap

Don’t be blindsided: the threat of nuclear war is real

Can we stop Trump tweeting his way to war? - weekly briefing

Charlottesville: Trump has made America hate again

Empire and partition: the violent end of the British Raj

Were you still up for? - Summer reading for interesting times

Shock and remembrance: how not to commemorate war

The politics of immigration

Rashan Charles: police racism hasn't gone away

The secrets of success: how SOAS cleaners fought and won

India’s Hindu supremacist lynching epidemic: Trump, the Tories and the legacies of colonialism

Now they've shafted the young, they try to blame it on the old - weekly briefing

Fear and loathing in the Trump White House

Defence and offence: the struggle in Venezuela reaches critical

Trump sends for the Marines: what could possibly go wrong? - weekly briefing

Judge says Blair can't be prosecuted - is anyone surprised?

Hackney protests: rage against the Met

Trump bids to escalate Afghanistan bloodshed

Employment tribunal fees: a supreme blow to the Tories

Survival is victory: the facts and fictions of the Dunkirk evacuation

The media assault on Corbyn on student debt is fake news

'May Days' - poem

Palestine is still the issue, now more than ever - weekly briefing

Can Vince Cable save the Lib Dems?

Grenfell council meeting: adding insult to mortal injury

Macron and Netanyahu: the shadow of Zionism

Into battle: Manchester prepares for the upcoming Tory Party Conference

Education spending: austerity continues

Serco strike: an incredible show of solidarity with hospital workers

'Not mere manslaughter, but murder': why we're still living with Victorian values - weekly briefing

May's not-so-great Repeal Bill

Islamophobic placards have no place at Pride

Why Radiohead are wrong to play in Israel

Red sky thinking: BA strikes and their lessons for today

First the DUP, now Corbyn: Theresa May's inability to govern

Eyewitness account: G20 protests in Hamburg

Hamburg showed the emperor really doesn't have new clothes - weekly briefing

Durham Miners' Gala: celebrating resistance

Kensington and Chelsea: a tale of two boroughs

We shouldn't wait for the government to fall, we should bring it down

Corbyn and the movement: this is our time

This is our time, but we have to organise - weekly briefing

Le Tour: Nothing to lose but our chains

Ken Knight is the last person that should oversee Grenfell response

Social Attitudes Survey: A major shift to the left

May's DUP deal: divisions galore

Class is back - the Scottish Question must be recast

Labour councils must stop implementing Tory cuts

Oh-Jeremy-Corbyn - the power behind that Glastonbury chant

Kensington and Chelsea: a rotten borough

We need a new saying: 'safe as houses' just doesn't cut it anymore

First Diane Abbott, now Danièle Obono: the media lynching of black women on the radical Left

Statement from Durham teaching assistants in response to new deal offered

Multiracial, working class unity in the fight to get justice for Grenfell Tower residents

In France, the election boycott intensifies: Macron’s ‘landslide victory’ reveals its feet of clay

Finsbury Park attack: Stop the War Coalition statement

The Tories: a wretched apology for a government, clinging on to office - weekly briefing

Justice for Grenfell: on the streets

Ian Paisley and the DUP: the violent history of Theresa May’s new best friends

The Grenfell Tower disaster exposes the deep class divide in our society

The Grenfell Tower fire could have been avoided: this government must be held responsible

Surprise, surprise: Jeremy Corbyn's anti-war policies turned out to be a vote winner

The Tory crisis is the crisis of neoliberalism

Theresa May is ‘a dead woman walking’ – but the fight is just beginning

The election which showed that class is back - Final Election briefing (for now)

Trump and the Comey testimony: incompetence, nepotism and skulduggery

May's deal: return of the Irish Question

The election result: What happened in Scotland?

This was the result they said we could never see - Post-Election briefing

The Result: a very good night for Labour - and for the left - Election briefing #34

Media bias: an election top 10

Three reasons why Jeremy Corbyn beats Theresa May in responding to the terror attacks

Vote Labour, but don't stop there

The election which only one party deserves to win - Election briefing #33

A vote for Labour in Scotland is a vote against independence

Trump’s climate cynicism

Some people still don't get it. Labour's surge is because of Corbyn

Would you trust this woman with your security? Seriously? - Election briefing #32

Theresa May's time-to-get-tough approach falls flat

Theresa May doesn't seem to have any answers, and her scapegoating of Corbyn isn't working - election briefing #31

London Bridge attack: Stop the War statement

Trump, May and Farage: the roll of shame - Election briefing #30

Through my eyes: the social care crisis

The days of timidity are over

This wasn't supposed to happen - Election briefing #29

What the response to Corbyn's debate victory tells us about bias - media watch

Apoplexy at Daily Mail about biased audience: bias is their job, after all – Election briefing #28

It's the Empress who has no clothes, not Jeremy Corbyn - Election briefing #27

On balance, the Tories don't deserve to win – Election briefing #26

The Blitz and the Spanish Civil War: ways of remembering the past

Silent boycott: the media blackout on the Palestinian hunger strike

Why you should join Counterfire

Manchester attack: the terror and the news

The war party has a lot to answer for - Election briefing #25

Armed force on the streets: the French experience

The coming war in Labour

Theresa the Granny’s house snatcher

Why Jeremy Corbyn can win

We cannot allow terror threats to undermine democracy - Election briefing #24

Solidarity not scapegoating is how to defeat terrorism - Election briefing #23

Don't let this attack divide us - Election briefing #22

The general election and our struggle for a better society

Our fight against the Tories is a fight against racism

Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr Jones? – Election briefing #21

Vote Labour and prepare to fight

Scotland: the SNP must fend off the Tories

Sod the old, sod the young

Student to student: why this time you must vote

Property owning democracy, anyone? – Election briefing #20

Tory manifesto isn't greater fairness between generations, it's an attack on every generation – Election briefing #19

Is there any war you don't support Theresa May?

A change is gonna come: these policies are a real alternative - Election briefing #18

How activists are supporting Palestinian hunger strikers internationally

What exactly is wrong with taxing the rich and the corporations? - Election briefing #17

The best democracy money can buy

Where will the money come from?

If you believe the Tories on this, you'll believe anything - Election briefing #16

If you fight you can win: victory for fractional staff at SOAS

Hungary: the end of democratic illusions

This is a manifesto worth fighting for - Election briefing #15

What’s worse than an election expenses scandal? Letting them get away with it…

Resisting the erasure of the legacy of Georg Lukács

A manifesto that is anything but chaotic - Election briefing #14

Theresa May knows all about the Nasty Party: she's leading it – Election briefing #13

Iran in the shadow of Trump

The subversive power of the UN Report that labelled Israel an 'apartheid' regime

Is Theresa May a secret Marxist? - Election briefing #12

Macron’s victory, and why the earthquake will continue

Four weeks to turn this around - Election briefing #11

Thoughts on the local election results

Lies, damned lies and local elections - Election briefing #10

May‘s plans on Syria: Stop the War statement

A prince among racists retires

The good news, the bad news, and five weeks is a long time in politics - Election briefing #09

Even the Lords knows May's foreign policy is a shambles

Trump: war on the climate, war on the working class

Does Empress Theresa realise this is an election, not a coronation? - Election briefing #08

Trump the warmonger

Bad press day? Headlines when it’s a black leftwing woman - Election briefing #07

The Blair Rich Project - Election briefing #06

Stay radical to win

Anti-capitalists, Melenchon and 7.7 million voters of the left

The end of UKIP?

Tories in a double bind over triple locks and taxes – Election briefing #05

Right, left and centre: how the battle will shape up – Election briefing #04

The nuclear question: Tory warmongers’ first strike

When the lying has to stop - Election briefing #03

It’s the Left that can beat Le Pen and fascism, not Macron

The vilification of a peacemonger - Election briefing #02

Corbyn attacked for not wanting to start a nuclear war - Election briefing #01

The message from South Wales: the fight is on, get involved

Hungary: huge protests in defence of academic freedom

Trump: pushing us to the brink of war

Sturgeon plays the Thatcher card in Scotland

Tactical voting: the left must reject any anti-Tory electoral pact with the Lib Dems

Bring it on

Turkish Referendum: Erdoğan’s narrow win

SOAS community statement: Apartheid off campus

Trump frolics with a Korean war

Excitement in the French elections: the meaning of Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Yemen: a very British disgrace

Ken Livingstone is not an antisemite

Will Hutton and Gerald Coyne: PR for the bosses’ man

Trump's air stike has deepened Syria's misery

America's lapse of the imperial memory

Livingstone and Labour: an attack on the left

May the merciless

Darcus Howe (1943 – 2017): the Mighty Lion remembered

French elections: enter Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Unite election: McCluskey vs the right

A riot of our own

Now is the time for nurses to fight back!

Marine Le Pen: the reality of the French fascist threat

Everyday sexism and the Daily Mail

Neoliberalism and local democracy: why the mayoral elections will solve nothing for the left

Value us: the Lions of Durham keep roaring

Durham teaching assistants: an open letter to a Labour councillor

Class in the drama class: actors and privilege

The liberal delusion: why fighting Brexit is a bad idea

The new taboo: terrorism and its causes

Stop the War Coalition statement on the Westminster attack

Scottish independence: which side are you on?

Martin McGuinness and the armed struggle in context

The fight is on: campaigning for an independent Scotland starts now

Unite, McCluskey and the establishment

March 18 anti-racist demos: broad and militant

Osborne and the arrogance of the 1 percent

The Dutch dog that didn't bark

Dutch lessons: time to fight for our alternatives

Brexit and EU citizens: the real fight starts now

Uniting the fight-back against Trump

Double or quits: Scottish independence on the march

Scottish independence: do not let the SNP squander this new opportunity

Get your rosaries off my ovaries: thousands march in Dublin for #Strike4Repeal

Why we need organisation: politics and structure

Why nurses will be so angry at this budget: NHS and resistance

NHS: the fight of our lives is on

Fantastic march for our NHS

The Walled-Off Hotel opens in Bethlehem: Banksy strikes again

The Nazis and the British establishment

The October Revolution: history and heritage

Last Stand at Standing Rock

NHS: Britain is in a humanitarian crisis

Labour and the movement after Stoke and Copeland: the next steps

There’s only one minority to blame for the NHS crisis

The EU: is this really what anti-racism looks like?

The Trump factor: Israel, settlements and antisemitism

Rapidly decreasing middle ground: the Balkans and the Trump Effect

5 things Orlando Figes got wrong about the Russian Revolution on BBC Newsnight

Peru: the left’s failure

Join the movement against Trump

Why has the Royal Academy airbrushed Trotsky out of history?

Unity and organisation: our weapons against Trump

We are a nation. We decide: Catalonia calling

The war on whistleblowers

May ’68 and the movement against Trump: a call for a united front

Trump and May: a special kind of relationship

Netanyahu, May’s force is with you

Corbyn got it right over Article 50

We can't move forward if we don't understand our past

Power to the ideals!

Towards a politics of radical deglobalisation

Marisa Leticia - an obituary

The Nandy gang: fake pretenders unite around racism

Iran and The Donald: the US isolationism that did not happen

The Pumpkinführer’s war on Muslims

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