History - Counterfire

The NHS revolution

NHS at 70: Morgan Daniels looks behind the myth and finds our rulers conceding to an emboldened working class

Apocalypse Then: the My Lai Massacre

Fifty years on from the worst US atrocity of the Vietnam War, Sean Ledwith explains what happened that day

Paris and London: A Tale of Two Radical Cities

Chris Bambery on the history of two great capital cities, and the architecture of power.

This St David's Day, let us remember guerrilla leader Owain Glyndŵr

14th-century Welsh leader Owain Glyndŵr deserves to be remembered as one of the great rebels of history

15 years on from the biggest protest in British history

Lindsey German looks back at the day in 2003 that millions took to the streets to protest the Iraq war

A memory buried under the debris of Babri

The demolition of the Babri mosque led to the end of peaceful co-existence between Muslims and Hindus in Rutuja Deshmukh Wakankar's town. She looks back on the day

An introduction to Trotsky's 'The Lessons of October'

On the 100th anniversary of the October revolution, Alex Snowdon introduces a key chapter from Trotsky's radical book on the subject

Arthur Ransome on the Russian Revolution

100 years on from the October revolution, Judy Cox introduces Arthur Ransome's pamphlet The Truth about Russia

The Russian Revolution – smashing tsarist antisemitism

The revolution that smashed the tsarist state liberated Jews from centuries of oppression, writes John Westmoreland

The October Revolution: lessons and legacy

Historian and activist Paul Le Blanc reflects upon the Year One of international working class struggle

The October Revolution in 1917, the Algerian Revolution in November 1954, and the victory of Dien Bien Phu

Mohammed Walid Grine's translation of Kateb Yacine's short work on the chronology of anti-imperialist struggle

Who was James Connolly?

In the first of our series looking at significant revolutionary figures, Chris Bambery asks what Irish republican James Connolly can tell us about the link between national liberation struggles and the fight for socialism

The NHS revolution

NHS at 70: Morgan Daniels looks behind the myth and finds our rulers conceding to an emboldened working class

Apocalypse Then: the My Lai Massacre

Fifty years on from the worst US atrocity of the Vietnam War, Sean Ledwith explains what happened that day

Paris and London: A Tale of Two Radical Cities

Chris Bambery on the history of two great capital cities, and the architecture of power.

This St David's Day, let us remember guerrilla leader Owain Glyndŵr

14th-century Welsh leader Owain Glyndŵr deserves to be remembered as one of the great rebels of history

15 years on from the biggest protest in British history

Lindsey German looks back at the day in 2003 that millions took to the streets to protest the Iraq war

A memory buried under the debris of Babri

The demolition of the Babri mosque led to the end of peaceful co-existence between Muslims and Hindus in Rutuja Deshmukh Wakankar's town. She looks back on the day

An introduction to Trotsky's 'The Lessons of October'

On the 100th anniversary of the October revolution, Alex Snowdon introduces a key chapter from Trotsky's radical book on the subject

Arthur Ransome on the Russian Revolution

100 years on from the October revolution, Judy Cox introduces Arthur Ransome's pamphlet The Truth about Russia

The Russian Revolution – smashing tsarist antisemitism

The revolution that smashed the tsarist state liberated Jews from centuries of oppression, writes John Westmoreland

The October Revolution: lessons and legacy

Historian and activist Paul Le Blanc reflects upon the Year One of international working class struggle

The October Revolution in 1917, the Algerian Revolution in November 1954, and the victory of Dien Bien Phu

Mohammed Walid Grine's translation of Kateb Yacine's short work on the chronology of anti-imperialist struggle

Who was James Connolly?

In the first of our series looking at significant revolutionary figures, Chris Bambery asks what Irish republican James Connolly can tell us about the link between national liberation struggles and the fight for socialism