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WEBCounterfire actively works to build the movements of resistance – on the streets, in workplaces and communities. Find your nearest branch, upcoming events and resources and join the fight. Counterfire's monthly freesheet Counterfire produces the left's first free newspaper every month with the key arguments of the moment.
Divisions deepen within Israeli garrison state | Counterfire
WEB1 day ago · Long before 7 October last year, divisions in Israel have been widening in ways that undermine its cohesion and even its usefulness to US imperialism, argues John Clarke. After a year of genocide in Gaza and accompanying brutality in the West Bank, the entire region now stands on the brink of a catastrophic conflagration.
10th Oct: Workplace day of action in solidarity with Palestinian and ...
WEB8 hours ago · October’s Ceasefire Now – Stop Arming Israel Day of Action saw a widespread return to workplace activity in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese people. Thousands of workers in hospitals, schools, universities, libraries, town halls and elsewhere came together to demand an end to Israel’s genocide. From Plymouth to …
Why does Israel get away with it? – weekly briefing
WEB4 days ago · It is hard to credit that our government, Joe Biden, and assorted media spokespeople keep telling us that Israel is ‘defending itself’. The Israeli government has in the past week bombed Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. It is threatening to launch airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear installations and oilfields.
What should Black History Month be for? | Counterfire
WEB2 days ago · Reasserting this history is what this month should be all about. While we should of course reject the idea that black history should be relegated to a single month or that it is separate from working-class history, Black History Month offers an opportunity to focus on the individuals, events and ideas that shaped the struggle in the past so ...
General strike deepens divisions in Israeli society
WEBThe brief general strike exposed the mounting economic and political damage the war is doing to Israel itself, but Palestine solidarity movements must press on, argues John Clarke. The discovery on 1 September of the bodies of six of the Israelis being held captive in Gaza was met with shock and anger within Israel, with many concluding that ...
Articles - Counterfire
WEBOct 4, 2024 · Lebanon: a country created, divided and destroyed by Western imperial interests. Michael Lavalette. Analysis. Egyptian revolution, 2011. Photo: Mahmoud Yakut / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. 02 Oct 2024.
Who we are - Counterfire
WEBJun 30, 2020 · Counterfire is a revolutionary socialist organisation committed to transforming our society from one based on the profit motive to one built on the needs of working people. Real change can only be achieved by working class people organising themselves to challenge their bosses and the government that stands behind the bosses. It depends on mass ...
What is Counterfire? | Counterfire
WEBFeb 14, 2022 · Counterfire is a socialist organisation committed to change from below. We believe socialists’ first job is to harness the anger of millions against the government and its attacks on working people. We support every protest, every strike and every picket. We try to build the biggest possible movements against austerity, the spiralling cost of ...
Counterfire: who we are and what we do… | Counterfire
WEBNov 11, 2013 · What is Counterfire? Counterfire is a socialist organisation committed to building the biggest possible movements against a system that is creating more and more crisis and misery.