Analysis | Counterfire

Jo Grady speaking in Westminster, December 2022. Photo: Flickr/Steve Eason

UCU, war and the backlash – weekly briefing

UCU flag outside Westminster. Photo: Flickr / Simarchy / CC BY-ND 2.0

UCU Congress: the left ascendant

Counterfire UCU members

Bank of England, Aug 2009. Source: lhongchou’s photography – Flickr / cropped from original / shared under license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Kill to Cure: Inflation and interest rates

Dominic Alexander

Alberto Núñez Feijóo. Photo: Partido Popular de Galicia / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 1.0

Spanish left in disarray facing snap general election

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Photo: Public Domain

How Erdoğan won – lessons of defeat in Turkey

Vladimir Putin speaking in September 2022. Photo: Wikimedia/Konstantin Zavrazhin

‘Call Putin’s bluff’: the latest cry from the armchair generals – weekly briefing

Henry Kissinger. Photo: World Economic Forum / Flickr / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

War criminal lives long and prospers: Henry Kissinger at 100

Black and white together, defending retirement pensions. Photo: John Mullen

Racism and class struggle in France today

Advertisement of New Democracy in Greece for the 2023 elections in a bus stop in Athens, with Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Photo: Nikos Likomitros / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 1.0

Greek right triumphant – where now for the left?

Biden, Sunak, von der Leyen and Zelenskyy conferring at the G7, Hiroshima 2023. Photo: Number 10 Simon Dawson

War war is better than jaw jaw… that’s the message from the G7 – weekly briefing

Rishi Sunak hosting the official Eurovision Reception at Downing Street, May 2023. Photo: Flickr/Simon Walker

Their Song for Europe is a battle cry – weekly briefing

Mike Minihan | Public Domain

Not bluffing: the US, China and the threat of war over Taiwan