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The bubble pops: Why cryptocurrencies are crashing

David Bush explains how the rise of cryptocurrencies is rooted in the capitalist class' response to the financial crisis and the pandemic and why it's now in freefall

'If they have £1bn for the Jubilee, they can afford to pay workers': why tube workers are striking - video

Glen Hart, RMT Southern Region organiser, spoke to Counterfire's Yonas Makoni about why tube workers are striking to resist the Tories and TfL's attempt to put the cost of the pandemic onto the workers

Lenin on the state - video

Holly Rigby discusses Lenin's theory on the capitalist state and the need for revolutionary struggle against it

Jubilee: pantomime for a failed state - weekly briefing

Lindsey German on royal theatrics and undercover policing

Arise, sir war criminal!

There is only one court that Blair should be attending, and it’s not the royal one, writes Terina Hine

Global predators: Canada’s brutal mining companies

The destructive greed and predatory role of Canada’s mining companies has led to horrific events in the Perkoa Mine, writes John Clarke.

Tariq Ali: why my account of Churchill angered the right - video

Tariq Ali's latest book documenting the time and crimes of Winston Churchill has provoked anger from the right wing media. Counterfire's Yonas Makoni spoke to Tariq about his book and why it's angered the right

Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media, and the Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela - book review

The relentless American war on Venezuelan sovereignty receives thorough and welcome coverage in Extraordinary Threat, finds Orlando Hill

The politics of helping out: why the left needs to do more than care for the community

Poverty and inequality are political so the left must focus on building an effective political fight back, argues John Westmoreland

Universities dispute in danger: are local settlements the thin end of the wedge?

There is an appetite for a fight, but the union must urgently change tack, argue Counterfire UCU members

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

Following Sinn Féin becoming the largest party in Northern Ireland, the DUP and the Tories are undermining the Good Friday Agreement with cynical games, writes Chris Bambery

The Tory horsemen of the inflation apocalypse

Work harder and longer, get a better job or learn to cook. This is the empty advice of the people in charge of the policies driving people into poverty, writes Terina Hine

The bubble pops: Why cryptocurrencies are crashing

David Bush explains how the rise of cryptocurrencies is rooted in the capitalist class' response to the financial crisis and the pandemic and why it's now in freefall

'If they have £1bn for the Jubilee, they can afford to pay workers': why tube workers are striking - video

Glen Hart, RMT Southern Region organiser, spoke to Counterfire's Yonas Makoni about why tube workers are striking to resist the Tories and TfL's attempt to put the cost of the pandemic onto the workers

Lenin on the state - video

Holly Rigby discusses Lenin's theory on the capitalist state and the need for revolutionary struggle against it

Jubilee: pantomime for a failed state - weekly briefing

Lindsey German on royal theatrics and undercover policing

Arise, sir war criminal!

There is only one court that Blair should be attending, and it’s not the royal one, writes Terina Hine

Global predators: Canada’s brutal mining companies

The destructive greed and predatory role of Canada’s mining companies has led to horrific events in the Perkoa Mine, writes John Clarke.

Tariq Ali: why my account of Churchill angered the right - video

Tariq Ali's latest book documenting the time and crimes of Winston Churchill has provoked anger from the right wing media. Counterfire's Yonas Makoni spoke to Tariq about his book and why it's angered the right

Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media, and the Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela - book review

The relentless American war on Venezuelan sovereignty receives thorough and welcome coverage in Extraordinary Threat, finds Orlando Hill

The politics of helping out: why the left needs to do more than care for the community

Poverty and inequality are political so the left must focus on building an effective political fight back, argues John Westmoreland

Universities dispute in danger: are local settlements the thin end of the wedge?

There is an appetite for a fight, but the union must urgently change tack, argue Counterfire UCU members

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

Following Sinn Féin becoming the largest party in Northern Ireland, the DUP and the Tories are undermining the Good Friday Agreement with cynical games, writes Chris Bambery

The Tory horsemen of the inflation apocalypse

Work harder and longer, get a better job or learn to cook. This is the empty advice of the people in charge of the policies driving people into poverty, writes Terina Hine

Help boost radical media and socialist organisation

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David Bush explains how the rise of cryptocurrencies is rooted in the capitalist class' response to the financial crisis and the pandemic and why it's now in freefall

Glen Hart, RMT Southern Region organiser, spoke to Counterfire's Yonas Makoni about why tube workers are striking to resist the Tories and TfL's attempt to put the cost of the pandemic onto the workers

Holly Rigby discusses Lenin's theory on the capitalist state and the need for revolutionary struggle against it

Lindsey German on royal theatrics and undercover policing

There is only one court that Blair should be attending, and it’s not the royal one, writes Terina Hine

The destructive greed and predatory role of Canada’s mining companies has led to horrific events in the Perkoa Mine, writes John Clarke.

Tariq Ali's latest book documenting the time and crimes of Winston Churchill has provoked anger from the right wing media. Counterfire's Yonas Makoni spoke to Tariq about his book and why it's angered the right

The relentless American war on Venezuelan sovereignty receives thorough and welcome coverage in Extraordinary Threat, finds Orlando Hill

Poverty and inequality are political so the left must focus on building an effective political fight back, argues John Westmoreland

There is an appetite for a fight, but the union must urgently change tack, argue Counterfire UCU members

Following Sinn Féin becoming the largest party in Northern Ireland, the DUP and the Tories are undermining the Good Friday Agreement with cynical games, writes Chris Bambery

Work harder and longer, get a better job or learn to cook. This is the empty advice of the people in charge of the policies driving people into poverty, writes Terina Hine

Help boost radical media and socialist organisation