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CWU: Post Office workers keep the fight alive with more strikes - News from the Frontline
Latest News December 2, 2022
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict - book review
Book Reviews December 1, 2022
War in Ukraine offers a clear-sighted analysis of the conflict and the necessary response by the anti-war movement, argues Lindsey German
The strikes: How we fight and how we win
Analysis December 1, 2022
Unjum Mirza analyses the current situation with industrial action, and offers a strategy for a class-wide victory
Sunak’s ill wind
Analysis November 30, 2022
A Tory split over onshore wind threatens to blow Sunak off course, says John Westmoreland
Civil War in France: Marx and the Commune - video
Video November 29, 2022
Katherine Connelly gives a brief history of the Paris Commune, its impact on Karl Marx and the lessons we can take from Marx's pamphlet Civil War in France at C...
This is an attack on our class: we must escalate to win – weekly briefing
Opinion November 27, 2022
Lindsey German on strikes and strategy
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Birkbeck rallies against 140 potential redundancies
Alistair Cartwright speaks to strikers and supporters at Birkbeck about the campaign to stop redundancies and the national UCU strike action they are part of ...
December 2, 2022 Alistair Cartwright
Protest and dissent race through China
Workers’ protests in China have ballooned into potentially serious, nationwide political demonstrations, argues Terina Hine
December 1, 2022 Terina Hine
Do Jews count?
David Baddiel’s Channel 4 film focusing on antisemitism and the progressive left promotes a hierarchy of racism that only benefits the right argues Leah Levane ...
November 27, 2022 Leah Levane
Royal Mail: best and final offer met with no confidence in CEO - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
November 25, 2022 Counterfire
Austerity, abandonment and assisted dying in Canada
The right to ‘die with dignity’ is warped by austerity and social exclusion, argues John Clarke
November 25, 2022 John Clarke
A People’s History of Catalonia - book review
Michael Eaude’s A People’s History of Catalonia brilliantly tells the story of an oppressed people’s struggle through the centuries, finds Chris Bambery ...
November 24, 2022 Chris Bambery
University strike: the rising has begun
Up and down the country, higher education has seen the first day of major industrial action by staff. Counterfire takes the pulse of the dispute
November 24, 2022 Counterfire
The end of the 'Neverendum' is coming
The SNP leadership’s phony independence campaign is entering its final stages after the Supreme Court decision. We need rigorous honesty about what went wrong a...
November 23, 2022 David Jamieson
Theory
Marxism and Class part six: the working class and revolution
In the final part of his series, Chris Nineham applies some of the lessons of the twentieth century to our current predicament
October 30, 2022 Chris Nineham
Marxism and Class part five: Southern storms – class in the developing world
In the fifth part of the series on class, Chris Nineham demonstrates the centrality of working-class struggle in the Global South
October 22, 2022 Chris Nineham
Marxism and Class part four: Capitalism and class consciousness
In the fourth part of the series on class, Chris Nineham explains how a revolutionary class consciousness can be developed
October 15, 2022 Chris Nineham
Marxism and Class part three: Class analysis or identity politics?
In the third part of the series on class, Chris Nineham explains why a class analysis is needed to understand and fight oppression
October 7, 2022 Chris Nineham
Marxism and Class part two: Whatever happened to the western working class?
In the second in the series on class, Chris Nineham shows that the working class is as central as ever to capitalism here and across the world
September 30, 2022 Chris Nineham
Books
A People’s History of Catalonia - book review
Michael Eaude’s A People’s History of Catalonia brilliantly tells the story of an oppressed people’s struggle through the centuries, finds Chris Bambery ...
November 24, 2022 Chris Bambery
Radek: A Novel - book review
Stefan Heym’s classic novel tells a fascinating story of the Russian revolution through the Bolshevik Karl Radek, finds John Westmoreland
November 17, 2022 John Westmoreland
Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change - book review
Future on Fire offers a compelling argument that only mass movements can bring about a solution to the climate crisis, finds John Clarke
November 10, 2022 John Clarke