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Counterfire – British Universities failed by government cuts and management greed

May 11, 2025 Mathew D. Rose 0

How Britain is destroying its once excellent university system Counterfire is a revolutionary socialist organisation committed to transforming our society from one based on the profit motive to one built on the needs of working […]

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John Rees – The Zionist lobby: myth and reality

February 20, 2024 Ben Wray 1

A critique of John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s argument that US policy in relation to Israel is almost entirely determined by domestic issues, especially the influence of the Israel lobby on the American state. John […]

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Lindsey German – It’s not difficult: repression breeds resistance

October 9, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Only an end to apartheid can end the suffering of Israelis and Palestinians. Lindsey German is national convenor of the Stop the War coalition. Cross-posted from Counterfire The breakout dawn attack by Hamas from Gaza […]

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Chris Bambery: How did it get to this? Truss and the Tory party’s trauma

October 16, 2022 Ben Wray 0

The real problem for the Tories is that there are no good options for British capitalism. Cross-posted from Counterfire Britain is no stranger to the financial markets creating chaos with a run on the pound. […]

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Counterfire: General strike shuts down Greece: Collective working-class action has great power

April 8, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Greek workers shutdown the country in a national 24-hour general strike calling for higher wages in the face of rising costs and in clear opposition to war and militarism Read Here Greece general strike, Thessaloniki. […]

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Counterfire: Why the EU is not internationalist

May 3, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Seeing the EU as internationalist is a fundamental error rooted in a misdiagnosis of its aims and effects, argues Chris Nineham Read here

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Chris Nineham: Why the EU is not internationalist

April 12, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Seeing the EU as internationalist is a fundamental error rooted in a misdiagnosis of its aims and effects, argues Chris Nineham Read here

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Counterfire: The Greek fires: a catastrophe fuelled by austerity

July 26, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Odd, looking for an article concerning the effect of austerity upon Greece’s ability to deal with the fires (there were numerable tweets from Greece on the topic), nothing could be found in corporate media. Read […]

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counterfire: Brexit and the left, two years on

July 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Here is the take on Brexit by the British socialists: Read here

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Counterfire: UCU pensions dispute: the battle is over, but the fight continues

May 14, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

An update concerning the UK University Strike Read here

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Germany’s Jewish Problem: Genocides Past and Present by Wieland Hoban

March 4, 2026 0

Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

January 15, 2026 0

Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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