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  • | Red Traces Part 1 Cave Paintings and primitive communism | MR Online

    Red Traces, Part 1: Cave paintings and primitive communism

    Originally published: Counterfire on January 18, 2023 by Sean Ledwith (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jan 25, 2023)

    Sean Ledwith begins a new monthly series that explores how the Marxist tradition seeks to explain the cultural peaks of human history.

  • | Al Wakrah Stadium Doha under construction from 2019 Source Matt Kieffer Flickr cropped form original shared under license CC BY SA 20 | MR Online

    Sporting values built on bloodied sand: Qatar 2022

    Originally published: Counterfire on November 18, 2022 by Vince Hawkins (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Nov 23, 2022)

    The horrific conditions faced by workers for the World Cup in Qatar shows business priorities overwhelm the sport, argues Vince Hawkins.

  • | Marx and the Robots Networked Production AI and Human Labour eds Florian Butollo and Sabine Nuss trans Jan Peter Herrmann with Nivene Rabat Pluto Press 2022 vi 324pp | MR Online

    “Marx and the Robots. Networked Production, AI and Human Labour” – book review

    Originally published: Counterfire on October 13, 2022 by Elaine Graham-Leigh (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Oct 17, 2022)

    A new collection of essays provides important sceptical discussions of the impact of robotics and AI on the economy, finds Elaine Graham-Leigh

  • | Dockers in the East End London Photo British Library Public Domain | MR Online

    The Great Denial: Why they don’t want us to talk about class

    Originally published: Counterfire on September 24, 2022 (more by Counterfire)  |

    This summer’s strikes in Britain and the announcement by the RMT’s Mick Lynch that ‘the working class is back’ will have sent a collective shudder through the ranks of the establishment.

  • | Queen Elizabeth II in Cornwall 2021 Photo FlickrAndrew Parsons | MR Online

    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.

  • | Howard Zinn Photo Slobodandimitrov Wikimedia Commons CC BY SA 40 license linked below article | MR Online

    A people’s history of Howard Zinn

    Originally published: Counterfire on August 24, 2022 by Sean Ledwith (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Aug 29, 2022)

    On the hundred year anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth, Sean Ledwith examines the life and work of America’s greatest radical historian.

  • | Nicolas Graham Forces of Production Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Fuel Capitalism Haymarket Books 2021 x 256pp | MR Online

    Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Fuel Capitalism

    Originally published: Counterfire on August 19, 2022 by John Clarke (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Aug 22, 2022)

    Nicolas Graham’s book on forces of production and fossil-fuel capitalism gives an important analysis of why fundamental change is needed to solve the climate crisis, finds John Clarke

  • | Robert Hennelly Stuck Nation Democracy at Work 2021 172pp | MR Online

    ‘Stuck Nation’

    Originally published: Counterfire on June 16, 2022 by John Clarke (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jun 21, 2022)

    Robert Hennelly’s ‘Stuck Nation’ is a vigorous and well-researched analysis of the exploitative and racist nature of US capitalism, but falls short of a convincing way to be rid of it, argues John Clarke

  • | London Underground train Photo Cookie M Flickr CC BY NC ND 20 license linked at bottom of article | MR Online

    ‘The biggest rail strike in modern history’: RMT raises the flag – News from the Frontline

    Originally published: Counterfire on June 10, 2022 by Counterfire; News from the Frontline (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jun 13, 2022)

    Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles.

  • | Nato on green Russia in orange Graphic WikimediaPatrickneil | MR Online

    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.

  • | Omicron | MR Online

    Omicron: It didn’t have to be Groundhog Day

    Originally published: Counterfire on December 16, 2021 by Yonas Makoni (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Dec 24, 2021)

    Standing at the precipice of another major, acute coronavirus crisis, the country is rightly asking how the Tories have let this happen again.

  • | Marxist classics for Xmas | MR Online

    Ten Marxist classics for Xmas

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

    Lindsey German’s Marxist holiday reading list

  • | Covid Vaccine | MR Online

    Vaccine imperialism: a global threat

    Originally published: Counterfire on December 4, 2021 by John Clarke (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Dec 07, 2021)

    Leaving a vast section of the world’s population unvaccinated can only create the basis for the virus to spread and mutate, argues John Clarke

  • | The War Against Marxism | MR Online

    Philosophers with no clothes: A Review of ‘The War Against Marxism’

    Originally published: Counterfire on November 11, 221 by Chris Nineham (more by Counterfire)  |

    Tony McKenna’s new book is an important defence of Marxism, against thinkers who have confused and obscured its revolutionary core, argues Chris Nineham

  • | Black Lives Matter placard near Churchill statue | MR Online

    The war on woke: how socialists should respond to the culture wars

    Originally published: Counterfire on July 7, 2021 by John Westmoreland (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jul 12, 2021)

    The Tories are trying to further divide the working class by fuelling culture wars, socialists must fight back on our own terms, argues John Westmoreland

  • | Tom Lawson The Last Man A British Genocide in Tasmania Bloomsbury 2021 paperback edition xxvii 271pp | MR Online

    The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania – book review

    Originally published: Counterfire on June 24, 2021 by Dominic Alexander (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jun 29, 2021)

    The idea that there was anything remotely worthy about Britain’s imperial past has been steadily losing credibility, despite the Johnson government’s disgraceful and offensive insistence to the contrary.

  • | Exterminate All The Brutes | MR Online

    Facts are stubborn things: ‘Exterminate All The Brutes’ review

    Originally published: Counterfire on May 18, 2021 by John Westmoreland (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted May 29, 2021)

    Raoul Peck’s four-part documentary film about colonialism, slavery and genocide is a powerful and thorough exposition of the crimes of colonialism

  • | Aung San Suu Kyi Photo Claude TRUONG NGOC Wikimedia Commons CC BY SA 30 license linked at bottom of article | MR Online

    Myanmar coup: the generals are back – but then they never went away

    Originally published: Counterfire on February 2, 2021 by Susan Ram (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Feb 05, 2021)

    Susan Ram explores the factors behind the February 1st military coup in Myanmar.

  • | Marxism and Womens Liberation | MR Online

    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

  • | Five radical films to watch this holiday | MR Online

    Five radical films to watch this holiday

    Originally published: Counterfire on December 28, 2020 (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jan 01, 2021)

    In this powerful new documentary, filmmaker James Erskine utilises journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl’s interviews with Billie Holiday’s associates to illustrate how the singer overcame adversity to become one of the greatest artists in American music.

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