History - Counterfire

The violence of the Spanish state

Felipe González, ETA and the death squads, by Chris Bambery

When Alabama revolutionaries took on the KKK

Despite powerful and brutal opposition, black and white communist workers battled bravely against injustice in Alabama, writes Sean Ledwith

Democratic history challenges imperialist and racist history

Dominic Alexander explains how black history is intrinsically connected to the history of the working class

'Are there no food banks?' The Poor Laws and Charles Dickens at 150

Dickens’s acute observations of social inequality illuminate the cruelty of our government 150 years after his death, says Katherine Connelly

Fred Hampton: Black Panther and red revolutionary

Fred Hampton's politics are a lesson in how to fight racism and capitalism together, argues Sean Ledwith

The Battle of the Beanfield: an important anniversary in the history of state brutality

Cathy Augustine, Co-vice Chair of the Labour Representation Committee, remembers the Battle of the Beanfield, 35 years after the largest mass arrest of civilians in English legal history

Rasputin: scandal, murder and revolution

Dominic Cummings has been compared to another powerful, dangerous and despised political adviser: Rasputin. John Westmoreland recounts the story of Russia’s ‘mad monk’

The Levellers, the labouring classes, and the poor

In an essay soon appearing in the Bunyan Studies journal, John Rees looks at the Leveller programme in relation to the social structure of 17th century England

Why we should be Matchwomen, not Little Matchgirls

There's nothing new in the ruling class sending working-class people to work in life-threatening conditions, argues Louise Raw

Engels was right, class society and women's oppression aren't inevitable or irreversible

As part of our series on the revolutionary Frederick Engels, on the 200th anniversary of his birth, Elaine Graham-Leigh looks at Engels' The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State

The Jackson State massacre: the savagery of state-led racist violence

50 years on from the massacre of black students at Jackson State College, systemic racism and police brutality remain prevalent in the United States, writes Alyssa Cassata

Jolly George, 1920: when British workers stood up for revolutionary Russia

The case of the Jolly George in 1920 shows that workers in Britain had an instinctive solidarity with the Russian working class, argues Kate Connelly

The violence of the Spanish state

Felipe González, ETA and the death squads, by Chris Bambery

When Alabama revolutionaries took on the KKK

Despite powerful and brutal opposition, black and white communist workers battled bravely against injustice in Alabama, writes Sean Ledwith

Democratic history challenges imperialist and racist history

Dominic Alexander explains how black history is intrinsically connected to the history of the working class

'Are there no food banks?' The Poor Laws and Charles Dickens at 150

Dickens’s acute observations of social inequality illuminate the cruelty of our government 150 years after his death, says Katherine Connelly

Fred Hampton: Black Panther and red revolutionary

Fred Hampton's politics are a lesson in how to fight racism and capitalism together, argues Sean Ledwith

The Battle of the Beanfield: an important anniversary in the history of state brutality

Cathy Augustine, Co-vice Chair of the Labour Representation Committee, remembers the Battle of the Beanfield, 35 years after the largest mass arrest of civilians in English legal history

Rasputin: scandal, murder and revolution

Dominic Cummings has been compared to another powerful, dangerous and despised political adviser: Rasputin. John Westmoreland recounts the story of Russia’s ‘mad monk’

The Levellers, the labouring classes, and the poor

In an essay soon appearing in the Bunyan Studies journal, John Rees looks at the Leveller programme in relation to the social structure of 17th century England

Why we should be Matchwomen, not Little Matchgirls

There's nothing new in the ruling class sending working-class people to work in life-threatening conditions, argues Louise Raw

Engels was right, class society and women's oppression aren't inevitable or irreversible

As part of our series on the revolutionary Frederick Engels, on the 200th anniversary of his birth, Elaine Graham-Leigh looks at Engels' The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State

The Jackson State massacre: the savagery of state-led racist violence

50 years on from the massacre of black students at Jackson State College, systemic racism and police brutality remain prevalent in the United States, writes Alyssa Cassata

Jolly George, 1920: when British workers stood up for revolutionary Russia

The case of the Jolly George in 1920 shows that workers in Britain had an instinctive solidarity with the Russian working class, argues Kate Connelly