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  • Photo of Asia Lacis/ Museum of Literature and music, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    Asja Lācis – Revolutionary theatre, Bolshevism and Walter Benjamin

    Originally published: Counterfire on August 13, 2026 by Chris Bambery (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Aug 15, 2026)

    Chris Bambery explores the life and work of Latvian Bolshevik, Asja Lācis.

  • Volvo B9TL with Wright body operating Transport for London bus route, crossing Albert Bridge. Photo: Kk70088 / CC BY 4.0

    Climate and class

    Originally published: Counterfire on August 9, 2026 by Terina Hine (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Aug 11, 2026)

    For far too long environmental issues have been seen as the preserve of the middle classes, but as the recent heatwave shows, climate change impacts us all, and the poor and most vulnerable suffer the most, finds Terina Hine.

  • ‘Open your eyes - to women being abused’. Poster by Denitza Tchacarova, Bulgaria, 2013

    An epidemic of violence against women and girls

    Originally published: Counterfire on July 26, 2026 by Terina Hine (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jul 29, 2026)

    Urgent action is required to stem the growing tide of misogynistic abuse and sexual violence against women, writes Terina Hine.

  • AI 'End Scenario' Cartoon/ CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

    Frequently asked questions about AI

    Originally published: Counterfire on July 3, 2026 by Kevin Crane (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jul 07, 2026)

    Kevin Crane takes on some common questions about Artificial Intelligence.

  • Earth on fire. Graphic: Wikimedia/Cristian Ibarra Santillan

    Climate change: Too hot for our rulers to handle–weekly briefing

    Originally published: Counterfire on June 29, 2026 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Lindsey German on climate chaos and capitalism’s inability to deal with it.

  • Inauguration of the president of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz. Photo: Dirección de Prensa / Wikimedia commons / CC BY-SA 3.0

    Bolivia at the crossroads

    Originally published: Counterfire on June 16, 2026 by Jonathan Maunders (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jun 17, 2026)

    Emergency legislation lays the foundations to crush the Bolivian anti-government protests argues Jonathan Maunders

  • Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global History (Allen Lane 2025), xiii, 1325pp.

    Capitalism: A Global History – book review

    Originally published: Counterfire on June 11, 2026 by Dominic Alexander (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jun 14, 2026)

    This enormous history of capitalism provides much fascinating detail, but its flawed conceptualisation of the system’s history undermines it, argues Dominic Alexander.

  • Scorched grass in Greenwich Park, London, England in August 2022. Source: Alisdare Hickson. -Wikicommons / cropped from original / CC BY-SA 2.0

    Climate crisis deepens

    Originally published: Counterfire on May 21, 2026 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Evidence of catastrophic shifts in the climate is mounting alarmingly, yet leaders show no signs of action, so anti-capitalism is the only route to solving the crisis, argues John Clarke.

  • Alexandra Kollontai, The Social Basis of the Woman Question, trans. Elise Kendrick (Chicago: Haymarket 2026), 364pp.

    Falling in love again: The extraordinary politics of Alexandra Kollontai – book review

    Originally published: Counterfire on March 5, 2026 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Kollontai’s writings on women’s oppression and their struggle for liberation are as clarifying and brilliantly relevant today as they have always been, finds Lindsey German.

  • A Social History of Analytic Philosophy

    “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics Has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy” – book review

    Originally published: Counterfire on February 12, 2026 by Sean Ledwith (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Feb 16, 2026)

    Christoph Schuringa’s analysis of the dominant tradition in Anglosphere philosophy provides valuable insights, finds Sean Ledwith.

  • The Voice of Hind Rajab

    Unimaginable terror: ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ review

    Originally published: Counterfire on January 18, 2026 by Katherine Hajiyianni (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jan 22, 2026)

    Winning eight awards at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival, this is a heart-rending account of the final hours of a 5 year-old Palestinian girl awaiting rescue and a magnificent tribute to her and the children of Gaza, finds Katherine Hajiyianni.

  • Thomas A. Bass, Return to Fukushima (London: O/R Books, 2025), 197pp.

    Return to Fukushima – book review

    Originally published: Counterfire on January 15, 2026 by Elaine Graham-Leigh (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jan 17, 2026)

    Thomas Bass shows how insistence that nuclear power is a safe answer to energy needs is contradicted by the reality of the Fukushima disaster’s aftermath, finds Elaine Graham-Leigh.

  • Partisans: A Graphic History of Anti-Fascist Resistance, eds. Raymond Tyler and Paul Buhle (Toronto: Between the Lines 2025), 148pp.

    Partisans: A Graphic History of Anti-Fascist Resistance – review

    Originally published: Counterfire on December 29, 2025 by Eilidh Stewart (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Dec 31, 2025)

    A graphic history of the Partisan resistance in World War II provides a vivid, harrowing and valuable reminder of their crucial struggles, finds Eilidh Stewart.

  • Drop the charges protest. Photo: Steve Eason / CC BY-NC 2.0

    The clampdown on dissent is spreading

    Originally published: Counterfire on December 7, 2025 by Chris Nineham (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Dec 11, 2025)

    Chris Nineham on Starmer taking authoritarianism to new heights.

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    COP 30: It’s no joke

    Originally published: Counterfire on November 24, 2025 (more by Counterfire)  |

    COP 30 failed, even as the urgency of the climate emergency becomes terrifyingly clear, because fossil fuels are more profitable than renewables, explains Michael Roberts.

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    Trump in a multipolar world

    Originally published: Counterfire on September 13, 2025 by Chris Bambery (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Sep 20, 2025)

    Chris Bambery describes some shifting global axes after the Shanghai summit.

  • Sébastien Lecornu at a military ceremony the Polytechnic school / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0

    Explosions in France as Macron names his pal Lecornu prime minister 

    Originally published: Counterfire on September 12, 2025 by John Mullen (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Sep 13, 2025)

    Mass mobilisations of the left brought down the French government, but these must be maintained to prevent the right from gaining from the crisis, argues John Mullen.

  • Trumponomics

    Trumponomics in trouble

    Originally published: Counterfire on September 8, 2025 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Trump’s twin track of tariffs and deportations to restore American ‘greatness’ are in contradiction with each other, and are damaging the U.S. economy, argues John Clarke.

  • Workers for a Free Palestine

    ‘The working class has no country’: What do Marxists mean by this?

    Originally published: Counterfire on July 15, 2025 by Alex Snowden (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jul 19, 2025)

    Alex Snowdon on Marxism and internationalism.

  • Tony Blair at World Economic Forum 2025 / Flickr / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

    Tony Blair and the disgusting capitalist fantasy for Gaza

    Originally published: Counterfire on July 9, 2025 by Kevin Crane (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jul 11, 2025)

    Kevin Crane dissects the absurd and chilling corporate fantasies around a post-war Gaza, where the involvement of Blair brings it all back to the lies of the Iraq War over twenty years ago.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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