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
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...
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
Latest News August 12, 2022
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
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 ...
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...
Terina Hine argues that the Labour leader’s proposals don’t come close to matching up to the crisis
August 17, 2022 Terina Hine
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
Just when you think he can’t get any worse, Starmer finds a way, argues Terina Hine
August 15, 2022 Terina Hine
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Yonas Makoni explains the socialist perspective on where racism comes from and how we can eradicate it
January 28, 2022 Yonas Makoni
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
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 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
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