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A playwright committed to social change talks about cultural production under the Bolivarian Process.

For International Women’s Day, Counterfire asked women activists their views on the state of the struggle for women’s liberation. We are publishing a selection of answers over the weekend.

Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright about his latest film, The Old Oak, and his long career dignifying the lives and struggles of ordinary people.

Two students from Venezuela’s ELAM medical school talk about becoming physicians in the service of the people.

On the 59th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, two former security guards are speaking out for the first time about how they were falsely arrested by the New York Police Department as part of a conspiracy to remove his protection before he was killed.

Book Forum Editor, Roberto Sirvent, interviews Austin Cole about his community organizing work and political writing.

Parts 3 and 4 of an interview with Michael D. Yates by Farooque Chowdhury.

Too many U.S. workers still suffer and die from exposure to well-known toxic substances, a Texas investigative reporter’s new book says.

Parts 1 and 2 of an interview with Michael D. Yates by Farooque Chowdhury. The emancipation of labor is one of the foremost questions in all exploitative societies and societies in transition.

Interview with the former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, about the crisis in his country.

CounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on Gaza and genocide.

A documentary filmmaker long associated with the Bolivarian Revolution talks about the history of its audiovisual production and the challenges ahead.

CounterSpin interview with Sebastian Martinez Hickey on minimum wage.

A documentary filmmaker and teacher tells the story of Venezuela’s groundbreaking community media movement.

Miko Peled, author and former member of IDF Special Forces, explains how Israel indoctrinates its citizens in anti-Palestinian racism from the cradle to the grave.

Wadie Said on the new Gaza McCarthyism.

Given the many contemporary global challenges—such as climate change, far-right extremism, pandemics, and the increasing threat of nuclear war—it is urgent to develop a strategic, organizational, and theoretical perspective for the international left. Daniel Benson interviews Paweł Wargan on these and other questions.

CounterSpin interview with Mark Weisbrot on Javier Milei.

You may have heard of Julian Assange, but chances are that you haven’t heard about him from inside the CIA, State Department and U.S. military.

CA: “How could Milei’s triumph, geopolitically speaking, affect the Region?”
AB: “First of all, it will harm Argentina, because, in line with Washington’s demands, it will turn this country into a battering ram to reduce China’s presence in the Region, even at the cost of harming Argentina’s national interests, its exporting sectors and the labor force linked to them.”