WWI

WWI

• Our ten most popular articles of 2018

  

  The most popular articles on Counterfire this year

• Counterfire's books of the year - part one

  

  We asked a few leading campaigners and performers from the left what books have inspired them over the last twelve months

• Israel's crimes cannot go unanswered

  

  The ongoing assault on the Palestinian people is intensifying, and we need to up our response, argues Mona Kamal

• Aftermath: Art in the wake of World War One - review

  

  Modern art was a way of actively willing war towards an end says Alistair Cartwright in his review of the Aftermath exhibition at the Tate

• The persistence of the fog of war

  

  Lindsey German makes the connections between recent war remembrance and today’s Chilcot report

• How the Easter Rising changed the world

  

  In the final part of our series, Chris Bambery argues that the Easter Rising relaunched the struggle for independence in Ireland and inspired national liberation movements globally

• A revolt against Empire: the 1916 Easter Rising

  

  In the second part of our 3-part series on the struggle for Irish independence, Chris Bambery looks at the uprising of Easter Monday 1916

• Home Rule and the roots of the Easter Rising

  

  As the hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising approaches, Counterfire is running a new 3-part series by Chris Bambery on the struggle for Irish independence

• Remembrance should be for all victims of war

  

  The commemoration has morphed from being a call to end all wars, to one used by British politicians to support our wars in the Middle East, writes Lindsey German

• MH17 and the threat of a world war

  

  The downing of Flight MH17 has fuelled the dangerous dynamic of global conflict that is leading the world towards the violent chaos we witnessed one hundred years ago writes Matt Carr

• Sylvia Pankhurst: Militancy and Mass Mobilisation

  

  Pankhurst’s commitment to working class politics offered a more fruitful strategy for the women’s suffrage movement, compared to the middle class strategy of the leaders of the WSPU

• Art and Conflict: Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire

  

  As a young artist at the turn of the 20^th century, Sylvia Pankhurst battled discrimination in the institutional art world, while also developing strong political commitments

• Sylvia Pankhurst: War and Imperialism

  

  Sylvia Pankhurst’s activism during the First World War demonstrated her unwavering commitment to anti-imperialism - a thread running through all her activity for the rest of her life

• Introduction to Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire

  

  In this extract from her book, Katherine Connelly explains the context and continuities of Sylvia’s many political engagements - too often ignored in standard accounts of her life

• How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women: resisting war, asserting our liberation

  The introduction from Lindsey German's book How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women looks at how and why the anti-war movement became a vehicle for women’s political action