Opinion - Counterfire

“We need to work together”: school student climate striker speaks to trade unionists about the way forward

The speech given by the 12-year-old school student and climate striker to Unite the Union’s Suffolk Area Activists Committee

The devil and the deep blue sea: Labour and Johnson’s deal

Final stage Brexit fatigue cannot be allowed to override fundamental class imperatives, argues Kevin Ovenden

US workers strike back: General Motors and Chicago teachers

A surge in strike action in the US shows a labour movement that’s fighting back, argues Kate O’Neil

Police ban on Extinction Rebellion is an attack on our civil liberties

The threat to our civil liberties from the police banning Extinction Rebellion protests is dangerous and we must resist, argues Sweta Choudhury

Bosses put the screws on the newly elected Portuguese government to avoid changes to employment laws

At the meeting between the PS [Socialist Party] leader and the president of the CIP, the employer confederation argued that the next government should be supported by "agreements during each budget", which may include the PSD

Ecuador: the people demand change

Ecuador says no to neoliberalism and austerity. Jonathan Maunders suggests why

Civil liberties in Spain? The clampdown against the Catalan independence movement

The sentences handed out to the Catalan leaders shows the lengths the Spanish state will go to to maintain its control of Catalonia, argues Chris Bambery

Rebellion in the air – weekly briefing

Lindsey German on XR, strikes, Brexit vacillation and Turkey’s latest assault on the Kurds

With friends like this: John McDonnell’s flirtation with the right is damaging and inexcusable

Alastair Campbell and the Gentlemen’s Quarterly should be treated like enemies, argues Alex Snowdon

Why join Counterfire?

We need a bigger, stronger extra-parliamentary left.

Trump betrays the Kurds: never trust the imperialists

US and British imperialism will never be an ally for the liberation of people anywhere, writes Shabbir Lakha as Erdogan begins bombing northern Syria

Postal workers stand up to management attacks - Interview with CWU’s Andy Hopping

Andy Hopping from the Postal Executive Council of the CWU spoke to Counterfire’s commissioning editor Katherine Connelly, about what’s at stake in the dispute at Royal Mail

“We need to work together”: school student climate striker speaks to trade unionists about the way forward

The speech given by the 12-year-old school student and climate striker to Unite the Union’s Suffolk Area Activists Committee

The devil and the deep blue sea: Labour and Johnson’s deal

Final stage Brexit fatigue cannot be allowed to override fundamental class imperatives, argues Kevin Ovenden

US workers strike back: General Motors and Chicago teachers

A surge in strike action in the US shows a labour movement that’s fighting back, argues Kate O’Neil

Police ban on Extinction Rebellion is an attack on our civil liberties

The threat to our civil liberties from the police banning Extinction Rebellion protests is dangerous and we must resist, argues Sweta Choudhury

Bosses put the screws on the newly elected Portuguese government to avoid changes to employment laws

At the meeting between the PS [Socialist Party] leader and the president of the CIP, the employer confederation argued that the next government should be supported by "agreements during each budget", which may include the PSD

Ecuador: the people demand change

Ecuador says no to neoliberalism and austerity. Jonathan Maunders suggests why

Civil liberties in Spain? The clampdown against the Catalan independence movement

The sentences handed out to the Catalan leaders shows the lengths the Spanish state will go to to maintain its control of Catalonia, argues Chris Bambery

Rebellion in the air – weekly briefing

Lindsey German on XR, strikes, Brexit vacillation and Turkey’s latest assault on the Kurds

With friends like this: John McDonnell’s flirtation with the right is damaging and inexcusable

Alastair Campbell and the Gentlemen’s Quarterly should be treated like enemies, argues Alex Snowdon

Why join Counterfire?

We need a bigger, stronger extra-parliamentary left.

Trump betrays the Kurds: never trust the imperialists

US and British imperialism will never be an ally for the liberation of people anywhere, writes Shabbir Lakha as Erdogan begins bombing northern Syria

Postal workers stand up to management attacks - Interview with CWU’s Andy Hopping

Andy Hopping from the Postal Executive Council of the CWU spoke to Counterfire’s commissioning editor Katherine Connelly, about what’s at stake in the dispute at Royal Mail

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