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All out against the Tories: Strike, protest, resist!
Analysis August 14, 2022
The Tories are fighting a class war but they're divided and weak, a united movement of strikes and protests can break them
We have to stand up to police attacks on trade unionists
Opinion August 13, 2022
Following the arrests of GMB organisers Gary Palmer and Helen O’Connor on picket lines, Lucette Davies explains the growing trend of authoritarian actions by th...
From crisis to catastrophe: Climate change is a class issue
Analysis August 12, 2022
As we face another heatwave, Elaine Graham-Leigh looks at what's at stake and the urgent course of action we need
No post on strike days: national Royal Mail strike to begin in 2 weeks - News from the Frontline
Latest News August 12, 2022
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Breaking The Impasse: Electoral Politics, Mass Action, and the New Socialist Movement in the United States - book review
Book Reviews August 11, 2022
Kim Moody’s Breaking The Impasse offers an incisive analysis of what the US labour movement needs to do to bring radical change, finds John McGrath ...
The revolutionary tradition of the English working class
Analysis August 10, 2022
This weekend the Yorkshire town of Halifax commemorates the great strike of 1842 organised by the Chartists. John Westmorland looks at this movement and its les...
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Starmer breaks his silence but falls way short
Terina Hine argues that the Labour leader’s proposals don’t come close to matching up to the crisis
August 17, 2022 Terina Hine
The United Front: Trotsky's Marxism - video
Martin Hall discusses Trotsky's theory of the united front as a means for revolutionaries to work with reformists in mass movements
August 15, 2022 Martin Hall
How low can Starmer go?
Just when you think he can’t get any worse, Starmer finds a way, argues Terina Hine
August 15, 2022 Terina Hine
Salman Rushdie attack: Bitter fruits of a carnival of reaction
Following the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie, Kevin Ovenden discusses the clash of fundamentalisms at the heart of the global system and how the left s...
August 15, 2022 Kevin Ovenden
Unison NHS workers to be balloted for industrial action
Health worker and Unison member Karen Buckley discusses the latest inadequate pay offer for health workers and the possibility of industrial action in the NHS ...
August 14, 2022 Karen Buckley
Remembering 1842: The struggle for democracy and workers' rights
Reece Goscinski reports from the Halifax commemoration of the 1842 general strikes and the lessons it holds for the struggle today
August 14, 2022 Reece Goscinski
US Climate Bill won’t prevent a global catastrophe
John Clarke on the Democrats’ inadequate Climate Bill and the need for the anti-capitalist left to pose a real alternative and build mass action to demand it ...
August 13, 2022 John Clarke
System failure: What should socialists do? A discussion with Lindsey German and James Schneider - video
A discussion with Lindsey German, author and Convenor of Stop the War, and James Schneider, co-founder of Momentum and author of the upcoming book Our Bloc: How...
August 13, 2022 Counterfire
Theory
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: a short introduction
Ahead of Counterfire's discussion on Lenin on Imperialism, we repost Morgan Daniels' introduction to Lenin's 1917 pamphlet, Imperialism: The Highest S...
May 12, 2022 Morgan Daniels
Duncan Hallas: Socialism and war
This article originally written by the revolutionary Marxist Duncan Hallas to explain the position on war at the time of the Falklands/Malvinas war in 1982. It ...
March 17, 2022 Duncan Hallas
Alexandra Kollontai on International Women's Day
On International Women's Day, we republish Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai's writing on the history and importance of the day
March 7, 2022 Alexandra Kollontai
Will racism always be with us? - explainer
Yonas Makoni explains the socialist perspective on where racism comes from and how we can eradicate it
January 28, 2022 Yonas Makoni
Why is the labour theory of value so important? - explainer
Dominic Alexander explains the Marxist theory of where value comes from and why it's central to understanding how capitalism functions
January 17, 2022 Dominic Alexander
Books
Post Rosa: Letters Against Barbarism - book review
Post Rosa, a world-spanning collection of letter exchanges between socialists inspired by Rosa Luxemburg, demonstrates her continuing importance, finds Dominic ...
August 4, 2022 Dominic Alexander
Reclaiming Economics for Future Generations - book review
Reclaiming Economics illustrates the frustrations students of economics encounter and offers some thoughts of how to reclaim the subject for the 21st century, f...
July 28, 2022 Orlando Hill
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution. A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century - book review
Perry’s Case Against the Sexual Revolution raises important questions about women’s liberation, but is based on deeply flawed premises, argues Elaine Graham-Lei...
July 21, 2022 Elaine Graham-Leigh