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Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party - book review
Book Reviews October 22, 2020
Black Power Afterlives provides a range of views on the Black Panther Party, some of which hint at what a revival of the radical core of the Party could mean, a...
From Golden Dawn to the AfD, the far right is being beaten back by a fighting left
Analysis October 20, 2020
The far right are not unstoppable, but neither is their decline inevitable; the radical left is key to the anti-fascist movements halting their march, argues Ke...
Divide and rule: why the Tories are imposing Tier 3 on Manchester – CounterBlast
Opinion October 20, 2020
The government’s Tier system of local lockdowns is deliberately pitting regions against each other and avoiding an effective national strategy with the necessar...
Testing times, but no trace of a government strategy - weekly briefing
Opinion October 18, 2020
Lindsey German on the Tories’ ever-escalating Covid crisis, anti-austerity and Labour’s warped security values
Confronting boxing's segregation history
History October 16, 2020
Imperialist and racist tactics were used to attempt to ensure both literal and symbolic white dominance of the sport, argues Gavin Lewis
Against a false dilemma: we can save lives and livelihoods
Opinion October 15, 2020
Protecting people's lives and preventing hardship are not an either/or, what we need is the political will to do both, argues Chris Nineham
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Walter Rodney: Marxist, Pan-African, organic intellectual
Sean Ledwith recounts the socialist revolutionary Walter Rodney's many accomplishments and intellectual prowess
October 23, 2020 Sean Ledwith
End Sars: Solidarity with Nigeria protests against state violence
Protests against police brutality in Nigeria continue to escalate and have been met with horrific violence, writes Jamal Elaheebocus
October 23, 2020 Jamal Elaheebocus
Sunak's latest u-turn shows the Johnson project is falling apart
With a government this divided, we can win many more concessions and ones which benefit workers not businesses, argues Chris Nineham
October 22, 2020 Chris Nineham
Big ballots to strike - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's fortnightly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
October 21, 2020 Counterfire
What the US state does to anti-imperialists: The Trial of the Chicago 7 review
The Trial of the Chicago 7 tells us the powerful story of the brave stand taken by the anti-war movement in the late sixties
October 21, 2020 Shabbir Lakha
Republic of Islamophobia: weaponising the tragedy in France for political ends
The horrific killing of a schoolteacher is being used as an opportunity for the state to renew a racist offensive against French Muslims, argues Susan Ram ...
October 21, 2020 Susan Ram
Whether it's Trump or Biden, the US left needs to build an independent movement - video
Speaking at a recent Counterfire meeting on the US elections, Kate O'Neil discusses the political landscape in the US and how the left can organise
October 20, 2020 Kate O'Neil
Greater Manchester vs Tier 3 - CounterBlast
Manchester continues to resist Tory plans for an ineffective local lockdown with inadequate financial support, reports Chris Neville
October 19, 2020 Chris Neville
Engels 200
Engels' contribution to Marxism
As part of our series on the revolutionary Frederick Engels, on the 200th anniversary of his birth, we repost Tony Cliff's 1996 speech on Engels
June 28, 2020 Tony Cliff
Engels was right, class society and women's oppression aren't inevitable or irreversible
As part of our series on the revolutionary Frederick Engels, on the 200th anniversary of his birth, Elaine Graham-Leigh looks at Engels' The Origins of the Fami...
May 17, 2020 Elaine Graham-Leigh
Engels on nature and humanity
In the third of our series on the revolutionary Frederick Engels, on the 200th anniversary of his birth, we repost this excerpt from an upcoming short book on E...
April 4, 2020 Michael Roberts
Theory
What is imperialism? - explainer
In the tenth part of a series of explainers, Dragan Plavšić examines the roots of imperialism and how to oppose it
September 8, 2020 Dragan Plavšić
Is revolution possible in the twenty-first century? – explainer
In the ninth part of our explainer series, Katherine Connelly looks at the continuing possibility of revolution for transforming society today
August 25, 2020 Katherine Connelly
What went wrong in Russia? - explainer
In the eighth part of a series of socialist explainers, Vladimir Unkovski-Korica analyses what went wrong in post-revolution Russia
August 18, 2020 Vladimir Unkovski-Korica
Is a society without oppression possible? - explainer
In the seventh part of a series of socialist explainers, Elaine Graham-Leigh analyses where oppression comes from and if it can be overcome
August 11, 2020 Elaine Graham-Leigh
Can socialism come through Parliament? - explainer
In the sixth part of a series of socialist explainers, Morgan Daniels looks at the prospect of achieving socialism through Parliament
August 4, 2020 Morgan Daniels
Books
There would have been no Corbynism without Corbyn: a review of This Land
While This Land offers an insight into Corbyn's leadership, Owen Jones draws the wrong lessons to be learned, argues Shabbir Lakha
October 15, 2020 Shabbir Lakha
First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy - book review
David Broder’s account of how Italy was captured by the racist right shows the general danger of social-democratic parties collapsing into neoliberalism, argues...
October 8, 2020 Chris Bambery
Shakespeare in a Divided America - book review
Shapiro’s writing on Shakespeare remains fascinating and insightful, but Julius Caesar in the age of Trump reveals the weaknesses of a liberal perspective, argu...
October 1, 2020 Dominic Alexander