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  • Queen Elizabeth II in Cornwall, 2021. Photo: Flickr/Andrew Parsons

    The throne behind the power – weekly briefing

    Originally published: Counterfire on September 11, 2022 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Lindsey German on the loss and replacement of a UK monarch.

  • Wildfire, Europe 2017. Photo: PxHere

    The Tories fiddle while the planet burns, but protest is growing – weekly briefing

    Originally published: Counter Fire on July 17, 2022 (more by Counter Fire)  |

    Lindsey German on unfolding economic and environmental crises, and how we should respond.

  • Nato on green, Russia in orange. Graphic: Wikimedia/Patrickneil

    This is the real face of the Ukraine war – weekly briefing

    Originally published: Counterfire on May 2, 2022 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Lindsey German on imperialism, democracy and porn in parliament.

  • Marxist classics for Xmas

    Ten Marxist classics for Xmas

    Originally published: Counterfire on December 8, 2021 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Lindsey German’s Marxist holiday reading list

  • Marxism and Women's Liberation

    Marxism and feminism – Marxism and Women’s Liberation extract

    Originally published: Counterfire on January 8, 2021 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Lindsey German discusses Marxism’s contribution to analyzing women’s oppression in this extract from Marxism and Women’s Liberation

  • British Royal Navy's frigate, HMS Iron Duke. Photo- Wikimedia Commons

    Britain is following Trump and escalating the threat of war with Iran

    Originally published: Counterfire on July 12, 2019 (more by Counterfire)  |

    The British Navy’s seizing of an Iranian oil tanker shows Britain following Trump, trading in diplomacy for the threat of military confrontation, argues Lindsey German

  • Paul le Blanc, October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy 1917-1924 (Haymarket Books 2017), 504pp.

    October Song

    Originally published: Counter Fire on September 20, 2018 (more by Counter Fire)  |

    Paul le Blanc’s history of the Russian Revolution shows that the tragic outcome was not inevitable, and there is much to learn from it, argues Lindsey German.

  • The Seduction of Feminism

    Lindsey German

      Hester Eisenstein.  Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women’s Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World (Paradigm 2009).  xv, 293pp. The 20th century is often called the American century because of the US’s advance during that time to become the single greatest power in the world — economically, industrially and militarily.  The century’s story […]

Monthly Review Essays

  • Gendered Violence as an Inextricable Thread of Capitalism
    Maja Solar Graffiti in Mexico City, 2011. It reads: No Mas Feminicidios (No more murder of women).

    The gendered forms of violence in capitalist-patriarchal societies are, obviously, related to what is habitually recognized as violence against women.

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  • End of Cold War Illusions
    Harry Magdoff F-16N Fighting Falcon

    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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