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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 fight last time: Lessons of the 1926 General Strike
Analysis August 8, 2022
A spectre is haunting our ruling class: the spectre of 1926, writes Sean Ledwith
China, Taiwan and Pelosi: the instability intensifies
Analysis August 8, 2022
Imperialist competition is threatening us with catastrophe, says Dragan Plavšić
Palestinians in Gaza are cannon fodder for Israeli political games
Analysis August 7, 2022
The Israeli military has once again launched a barbaric aerial offensive on the besieged Gaza strip killing at least 43 Palestinians ahead of November's Is...
Wildcat walkouts: workers’ anger spreads beyond the unions - News from the Frontline
Latest News August 5, 2022
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
How to turn a strike wave into a tsunami
Analysis August 1, 2022
We need class logic - co-ordination, escalation and decisive action - to generalise the growing strike wave and take on the Tories, writes Unjum Mirza ...
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The government is missing while 35m people face cost of living catastrophe - CounterBlast
The zombie Tory government is sitting on its hands and the leadership contenders offer no solutions as energy companies rake in record profits at working people...
August 10, 2022 Terina Hine
The revolutionary tradition of the English working class
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...
August 10, 2022 John Westmoreland
Revolution in the Developing World: Trotsky's Marxism - video
Feyzi Ismail discusses Trotsky's ideas on revolution in countries on the periphery of the global capitalist system and takes on the stageist theory
August 10, 2022 Feyzi Ismail
The Italian political crisis and the threat of fascism
Chris Bambery analyses the Italian political breakdown, the role of the EU and the dangers of an ascendant far right
August 8, 2022 Chris Bambery
Serbia, Kosovo and Ukraine: An open flame next to a powder keg
Miloš Jakovljević explains that the changing context of war in Ukraine has drastically increased the stakes in every nationalist crapshoot in the Balkans, inclu...
August 7, 2022 Miloš Jakovljević
Sri Lanka: Uprising and reprisal – interview
After months of mass protests, the people of Sri Lanka ousted the President. Shabbir Lakha spoke to London-based Sri Lankan activist Nirmala Rajasingam about th...
August 6, 2022 Shabbir Lakha
The false promise of basic income in Wales
Basic income, despite its appeal, cuts against class struggle and lets capitalists off the hook, argues John Clarke
August 6, 2022 John Clarke
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
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