Stopping the European drive to war, the assault on higher education, the far-right exploiting Henry Nowak’s murder, interview with an Italian socialist, the US’s chokehold on Cuba, 100 years of Marilyn Monroe and more in this month’s Counterfire freesheet
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News
04 Jun 2026
A tragedy exploited by the far-right
Opinion
Marilyn Monroe in Asphalt Jungle (1950). Photo: Public Domain
02 Jun 2026
100 years of Marilyn Monroe: A working-class heroine
Opinion
Tony Blair. Photo: Cabinet Ministers of Ukraine / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0
29 May 2026
The ghoulish spectre of Tony Blair is haunting Britain again
Opinion
Aerial photograph of open pit mine in the tar sands oil fields of Alberta, Canada. Source: Dru Oja Jay, Dominion -wikicommons / cropped from original / CC BY 2.0
28 May 2026
Alberta separatism: A tangled reactionary web
Book review
Daniel Trilling, If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable (London: Pan Macmillan 2026), 208pp.
28 May 2026