Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and Scott Morrison announcing the Aukus alliance. Photo: Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, license linked at bottom of article
Chris Nineham speaks to RT News about the provocative and unnecesary step the US, UK and Australia have taken with their new nuclear alliance
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More war, escalating authoritarianism, a deepening cost of living crisis – the left faces big challenges.
But resistance is also growing.
Counterfire has been at the heart of the mass movements against war, in solidarity with Palestine, and against austerity. Given the scale of the crisis, we urgently need to ramp up our operations. We need your help to raise £30,000 to make that happen.
Chris Nineham
Chris Nineham is a founder member of Stop the War and Counterfire, speaking regularly around the country on behalf of both. He is author of The People Versus Tony Blair and Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukacs.
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