History - Counterfire

The ghosts of the union: commemoration event backfires for Varadkar

An ill-judged commemoration of the Royal Irish Constabulary is cancelled as Fine Gael underestimate negative sentiment towards former British occupation, reports Josh Newman

Hillsborough: ‘the greatest miscarriage of justice of our times’

Dragan Plavšić looks at the struggle to get to the truth behind the Hillsborough tragedy

Lessons from the remarkable life of Paul Robeson – part 2

Paul Robeson's extraordinary life is a lesson to us today, writes Tayo Aluko

Lessons from the remarkable life of Paul Robeson - part 1

Paul Robeson's extraordinary life holds many lessons for the present day, writes Tayo Aluko

Flawed transition: why the Spanish state is repressing the Catalan independence movement

Chris Bambery explains that Spanish repression of the Catalan independence movement, and the impending trial of its leaders, is rooted in the concessions made to right-wing nationalism in aftermath of Franco’s dictatorship

The Centenary of the 1919 Race Riots

For Black History Month, we are reposting Madeline Heneghan's piece on the race riots of 1919

William Blake: prophet and seditionary

William Blake was above all else a revolutionary, writes Jacqueline Mulhallen

Power to the People

Democratic rights don’t fall from the sky, they are fought for and won, insists Alex Snowdon

Imperial calculations: why World War Two was declared 80 years ago today

Britain declared war on Germany not to fight fascism but to secure the interests of its own ruling class, writes Chris Bambery

How socialists should commemorate Peterloo

Peterloo presents us with unfinished business, argues John Westmoreland

Defending the Indefensible: the British Army in Northern Ireland, 1969

In deploying troops to Derry, Downing Street was propping up the Unionist government to shield itself from blame, argues Chris Bambery

Rise Like Lions: the politics of Shelley's Mask of Anarchy

200 years after it was penned, Jacqueline Mulhallen explores the politics of Shelley's great poem

The ghosts of the union: commemoration event backfires for Varadkar

An ill-judged commemoration of the Royal Irish Constabulary is cancelled as Fine Gael underestimate negative sentiment towards former British occupation, reports Josh Newman

Hillsborough: ‘the greatest miscarriage of justice of our times’

Dragan Plavšić looks at the struggle to get to the truth behind the Hillsborough tragedy

Lessons from the remarkable life of Paul Robeson – part 2

Paul Robeson's extraordinary life is a lesson to us today, writes Tayo Aluko

Lessons from the remarkable life of Paul Robeson - part 1

Paul Robeson's extraordinary life holds many lessons for the present day, writes Tayo Aluko

Flawed transition: why the Spanish state is repressing the Catalan independence movement

Chris Bambery explains that Spanish repression of the Catalan independence movement, and the impending trial of its leaders, is rooted in the concessions made to right-wing nationalism in aftermath of Franco’s dictatorship

The Centenary of the 1919 Race Riots

For Black History Month, we are reposting Madeline Heneghan's piece on the race riots of 1919

William Blake: prophet and seditionary

William Blake was above all else a revolutionary, writes Jacqueline Mulhallen

Power to the People

Democratic rights don’t fall from the sky, they are fought for and won, insists Alex Snowdon

Imperial calculations: why World War Two was declared 80 years ago today

Britain declared war on Germany not to fight fascism but to secure the interests of its own ruling class, writes Chris Bambery

How socialists should commemorate Peterloo

Peterloo presents us with unfinished business, argues John Westmoreland

Defending the Indefensible: the British Army in Northern Ireland, 1969

In deploying troops to Derry, Downing Street was propping up the Unionist government to shield itself from blame, argues Chris Bambery

Rise Like Lions: the politics of Shelley's Mask of Anarchy

200 years after it was penned, Jacqueline Mulhallen explores the politics of Shelley's great poem