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PCS President Fran Heathcote calls for united resistance to stop 91,000 civil service job cuts
Opinion May 17, 2022
We won’t accept more cuts, says Fran Heathcote, National President of the Public and Communication Services Union, and calls on the whole trade union movement t...
The start of a war and the end of an era: How the invasion of Ukraine is changing the world
Analysis May 17, 2022
Chris Nineham analyses the causes and consequences of the war in Ukraine and tectonic shifts in global power politics
Apartheid under pressure – weekly briefing
Opinion May 15, 2022
Alex Snowdon on Palestine, economics and education
Lindsey German statement at Spycops Inquiry
Opinion May 15, 2022
The witness statement of Lindsey German, a core participant in the Undercover Policing Inquiry, on how the police infiltrated and spied on left organisations ...
Asda: fuming retail workers prepare to strike - News from the Frontline
Latest News May 13, 2022
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles ...
White Malice. The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa - book review
Book Reviews May 12, 2022
In White Malice, Susan Williams’s careful research reveals the history of the CIA’s damaging interventions in newly independent African nations, finds Elaine Gr...
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Wee little children: The DUP and Boris Johnson’s tantrums in Northern Ireland
Following Sinn Féin becoming the largest party in Northern Ireland, the DUP and the Tories are undermining the Good Friday Agreement with cynical games, wri...
May 18, 2022 Chris Bambery
The Tory horsemen of the inflation apocalypse
Work harder and longer, get a better job or learn to cook. This is the empty advice of the people in charge of the policies driving people into poverty, writes ...
May 18, 2022 Terina Hine
'We need to be more radical and war forces us to be': Interview with a Russian anti-war activist
Dragan Plavšić speaks to Russian socialist and anti-war activist Alexei Sakhnin about the war in Ukraine and the opposition to it in Russia
May 18, 2022 Dragan Plavšić
Royalty, republicanism and the ruling class: Why we booed Prince William
Peter Dwyer explains why he and other Liverpool FC fans booed the monarchy at the FA Cup final in Wembley
May 17, 2022 Peter Dwyer
Workers’ uprising topples Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister
A cosmetic change of leadership will do nothing to address the deep-rooted crisis on the South Asian island, writes Sean Ledwith
May 16, 2022 Sean Ledwith
‘Let them go’: Dalston stands up to police immigration raid
Tassia Kobylinska, a resident of Hackney, describes how the scene on Saturday when the community quickly mobilised to resist a police immigration raid targeting...
May 16, 2022 Tassia Kobylinska
Lenin on imperialism - video
Shabbir Lakha discusses Lenin's theory on imperialism, its relation to capitalism and what that means for anti-imperialists today
May 16, 2022 Shabbir Lakha
'From London to Jenin, justice for Shireen': thousands march for Palestine
Fatimah Ahmed reports on the national demonstration commemorating 74 years of Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and in response to the killing...
May 15, 2022 Fatimah Ahmed
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
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes - book review
Lindsey German welcomes Tariq Ali’s dismantling of the myth of the imperialist warmonger Churchill in Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes ...
May 5, 2022 Lindsey German
Arise: Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence - book review
Jane Holgate’s Arise raises important questions about trade-union organising strategy, but rank-and-file activity and political context are key, argues Graham K...
April 28, 2022 Graham Kirkwood
The European Radical Left: Movements and Parties since the 1960s - book review
Charalambous’s The European Radical Left provides a useful overview of the radical left in Europe since the 1960s, but more detailed analysis is still needed, a...
April 21, 2022 Chris Bambery