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The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985: A Memoir - book review

A memoir by a senior civil servant on the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement opens a window on how the establishment rules, finds Chris Bambery

PCS challenges Priti Patel’s ‘pushbacks’: how trade unions can resist racism

The PCS union has threatened legal action over Home Office plans to make border agents carry out international-law-violating attacks on refugees, reports Floyd Codlin

Stateless children: the next victims of Priti Patel’s war on refugees

The Nationality and Borders Bill enshrines outrageous measures threatening the internationally agreed rights and welfare of children, argues Aaron Gates-Lincoln

The oppression of refugees: a UK-France collaboration

Jacob Bailey, a volunteer for Oxford Refugee Solidarity, calls for solidarity with migrants, reporting on the conditions in the camps in Northern France

Fund the Fightback: Help us launch a brand-new website

Counterfire is launching a new website. As the struggle grows, socialist organisation and analysis is crucial. Help fund the fightback.

The Tories have brought the NHS to the brink of collapse – CounterBlast

Severe staff shortages and people dying in ambulances outside hospitals is the state the Tories have put the NHS in, writes Terina Hine

The Harder They Fall review: Who needs a plot anyway?

Despite a missing plot, Lucy Nichols finds The Harder They Fall an entertaining and visually impressive new take on the Western genre

Build back better? A post-pandemic attack on social benefits

The empty rhetoric of ‘building back better’ and ‘levelling up’ are thinly veiled attacks on welfare for working-class people, argues John Clarke

The shame of Europe – weekly briefing

Lindsey German on the horrors of modern border control and the fallout from COP26

The COP verdict: snatching failure from the jaws of success

With world leaders failing to agree to any meaningful action at COP26, Elaine Graham-Leigh argues now is not a moment for despair, but for stepping up the fight

Why NHS strikes are necessary

The NHS is in crisis, and clinical staff must join other NHS workers in strike action to save the health service, argues Helen O’Connor

Philosophers with No Clothes: A Review of The War Against Marxism

Tony McKenna’s new book is an important defence of Marxism, against thinkers who have confused and obscured its revolutionary core, argues Chris Nineham

The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985: A Memoir - book review

A memoir by a senior civil servant on the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement opens a window on how the establishment rules, finds Chris Bambery

PCS challenges Priti Patel’s ‘pushbacks’: how trade unions can resist racism

The PCS union has threatened legal action over Home Office plans to make border agents carry out international-law-violating attacks on refugees, reports Floyd Codlin

Stateless children: the next victims of Priti Patel’s war on refugees

The Nationality and Borders Bill enshrines outrageous measures threatening the internationally agreed rights and welfare of children, argues Aaron Gates-Lincoln

The oppression of refugees: a UK-France collaboration

Jacob Bailey, a volunteer for Oxford Refugee Solidarity, calls for solidarity with migrants, reporting on the conditions in the camps in Northern France

Fund the Fightback: Help us launch a brand-new website

Counterfire is launching a new website. As the struggle grows, socialist organisation and analysis is crucial. Help fund the fightback.

The Tories have brought the NHS to the brink of collapse – CounterBlast

Severe staff shortages and people dying in ambulances outside hospitals is the state the Tories have put the NHS in, writes Terina Hine

The Harder They Fall review: Who needs a plot anyway?

Despite a missing plot, Lucy Nichols finds The Harder They Fall an entertaining and visually impressive new take on the Western genre

Build back better? A post-pandemic attack on social benefits

The empty rhetoric of ‘building back better’ and ‘levelling up’ are thinly veiled attacks on welfare for working-class people, argues John Clarke

The shame of Europe – weekly briefing

Lindsey German on the horrors of modern border control and the fallout from COP26

The COP verdict: snatching failure from the jaws of success

With world leaders failing to agree to any meaningful action at COP26, Elaine Graham-Leigh argues now is not a moment for despair, but for stepping up the fight

Why NHS strikes are necessary

The NHS is in crisis, and clinical staff must join other NHS workers in strike action to save the health service, argues Helen O’Connor

Philosophers with No Clothes: A Review of The War Against Marxism

Tony McKenna’s new book is an important defence of Marxism, against thinkers who have confused and obscured its revolutionary core, argues Chris Nineham

Help boost radical media and socialist organisation

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A memoir by a senior civil servant on the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement opens a window on how the establishment rules, finds Chris Bambery

The PCS union has threatened legal action over Home Office plans to make border agents carry out international-law-violating attacks on refugees, reports Floyd Codlin

The Nationality and Borders Bill enshrines outrageous measures threatening the internationally agreed rights and welfare of children, argues Aaron Gates-Lincoln

Jacob Bailey, a volunteer for Oxford Refugee Solidarity, calls for solidarity with migrants, reporting on the conditions in the camps in Northern France

Counterfire is launching a new website. As the struggle grows, socialist organisation and analysis is crucial. Help fund the fightback.

Severe staff shortages and people dying in ambulances outside hospitals is the state the Tories have put the NHS in, writes Terina Hine

Despite a missing plot, Lucy Nichols finds The Harder They Fall an entertaining and visually impressive new take on the Western genre

The empty rhetoric of ‘building back better’ and ‘levelling up’ are thinly veiled attacks on welfare for working-class people, argues John Clarke

Lindsey German on the horrors of modern border control and the fallout from COP26

With world leaders failing to agree to any meaningful action at COP26, Elaine Graham-Leigh argues now is not a moment for despair, but for stepping up the fight

The NHS is in crisis, and clinical staff must join other NHS workers in strike action to save the health service, argues Helen O’Connor

Tony McKenna’s new book is an important defence of Marxism, against thinkers who have confused and obscured its revolutionary core, argues Chris Nineham

Help boost radical media and socialist organisation