The involvement of the private sector in the NHS has already had awful consequences, but Labour seems determined to expand ...

The ongoing genocide in Gaza, Starmer’s austerity and the danger of a resurgent far right demonstrate the urgent need for socialist organisation and ideas. Counterfire has been central to the ...

Lindsey German As national convenor of the Stop the War Coalition, Lindsey was a key organiser of the largest demonstration, and one of the largest mass movements, in British history. Her books ...

A new party to the left of Labour is highly welcome, but it will need to be rooted in the social movements, organised democratically and prepared to resist attacks, argues Michael Lavalette On ...

Today’s U-turn on Pip shows the weakness of Starmer in the face of massive public anger. The campaign against the welfare cuts must continue, but we can win, argues Kevin Ovenden The Starmer ...

Protesters gathered outside RAF Marham to oppose Starmer’s plans to buy and station nuclear-capable F-35a fighter jets there, reports Jacqueline Mulhallen Saturday’s protest outside RAF Marham was ...

The ongoing genocide in Gaza, Starmer’s austerity and the danger of a resurgent far right demonstrate the urgent need for socialist organisation and ideas. Counterfire has been central to the ...

Terina Hine takes apart the racist narrative around ‘grooming gangs’ A girl aged ten dismissed as a prostitute, police calling abused girls ‘slags’ and their abuse a ‘lifestyle choice’, children ...

Alex Snowdon explains why the oppression of women is not eternal or natural and is bound up with class exploitation Karl Marx and his close collaborator Frederick Engels, using insights from ...

The government's pay deal for teachers, while improved from their initial offer, still amounts to cuts to education On 22 May, the independent School Teacher Pay Review Body finally released its ...

The victory of Newcastle UCU provides a model for higher education workers fighting management cuts across the country, report Counterfire members in HE After 44 days of strike action, Newcastle ...

The Canadian PM’s response to Trump’s tariffs is austerity and environmental destruction that puts Indigenous communities on the frontline of resistance, explains John Clarke One of the key elements ...