Opinion - Counterfire

Working people shouldn't be penalised for staying at home

From sick pay you can't live on to bad credit scores, the government is pushing working people further into financial difficulty, writes Laura Smith

Gaza finds itself embroiled in another kind of seige

Gaza still needs our help, let us not give up on it in these testing times, argues Maddelena Dunscombe

Staff and workers still remain exposed - CounterBriefing 30 March

The attempt to look competent by providing regular updates the government is just trying to hide its inadequacies, says David McAllister

Can Johnson gain politically from this crisis? – weekly briefing

Lindsey German assesses the balance of forces

Crisis management Tory style - CounterBriefing 29 March

Another day and another suit delivering the same excuses as the fear and anxiety mounts for the rest of us, writes Chrissy Brand

Straight talking honest politics - As It Happened book extract

Counterfire Books have published an anthology of Lindsey German’s acclaimed briefing reports. Here we present an extract from the book’s introduction as a contribution to a wider debate on post-Corbynism.

EP Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class: books that made me a socialist

A classic work of social history chosen by Dominic Alexander

Test, test, test: the politics of coronavirus in microcosm

A crisis is always an opportunity for the right; our side has to start setting the terms of its own agenda, writes Kevin Potter

Where's Keir Starmer?

Keir Starmer's failure to stand up for working class people during this crisis is a glimpse of what we can expect if he becomes Labour leader, writes Alyssa Cassata

The right are worrying themselves into helping the left cause

It seems the right is so worried about the left having better solutions they are inadvertantly writing articles in favour of socialism, finds David McAllister

Supply chains: a neoliberal crisis

Alastair Cartwright explains how the current economic system is prone to failure and what needs to be done to change it

Coroneconomy: What is the economy and what should it be

In the first of a three-part series on the economy, Susan Newman examines what Coronavirus has revealed about the economy and what we should be calling for

Working people shouldn't be penalised for staying at home

From sick pay you can't live on to bad credit scores, the government is pushing working people further into financial difficulty, writes Laura Smith

Gaza finds itself embroiled in another kind of seige

Gaza still needs our help, let us not give up on it in these testing times, argues Maddelena Dunscombe

Staff and workers still remain exposed - CounterBriefing 30 March

The attempt to look competent by providing regular updates the government is just trying to hide its inadequacies, says David McAllister

Can Johnson gain politically from this crisis? – weekly briefing

Lindsey German assesses the balance of forces

Crisis management Tory style - CounterBriefing 29 March

Another day and another suit delivering the same excuses as the fear and anxiety mounts for the rest of us, writes Chrissy Brand

Straight talking honest politics - As It Happened book extract

Counterfire Books have published an anthology of Lindsey German’s acclaimed briefing reports. Here we present an extract from the book’s introduction as a contribution to a wider debate on post-Corbynism.

EP Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class: books that made me a socialist

A classic work of social history chosen by Dominic Alexander

Test, test, test: the politics of coronavirus in microcosm

A crisis is always an opportunity for the right; our side has to start setting the terms of its own agenda, writes Kevin Potter

Where's Keir Starmer?

Keir Starmer's failure to stand up for working class people during this crisis is a glimpse of what we can expect if he becomes Labour leader, writes Alyssa Cassata

The right are worrying themselves into helping the left cause

It seems the right is so worried about the left having better solutions they are inadvertantly writing articles in favour of socialism, finds David McAllister

Supply chains: a neoliberal crisis

Alastair Cartwright explains how the current economic system is prone to failure and what needs to be done to change it

Coroneconomy: What is the economy and what should it be

In the first of a three-part series on the economy, Susan Newman examines what Coronavirus has revealed about the economy and what we should be calling for

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