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WEBCounterfire actively works to build the movements of resistance – on the streets, in workplaces and communities. Find your nearest branch, upcoming events and resources and join the fight. Counterfire's monthly freesheet Counterfire produces the left's first free newspaper every month with the key arguments of the moment.
Grangemouth needs a Just Transition | Counterfire
WEB14 hours ago · This would be a most Unjust Transition, and workers must fight it. The Grangemouth ‘transition’ is happening at the same time as some 2,500 jobs are being cut at Tata Steel. Prior to the general election, Unite the union planned a mass rally to defend Tata workers but this was cancelled to negotiate redundancy terms.
The unprecedented environmental cost of Israel’s genocide in Gaza
WEB14 hours ago · Israel’s genocide in Gaza is once again exposing the lethal, planet-warming emissions of wars writes Sweta Choudhury. One of the most graphic depictions of the environmental costs of war was when 700 of Kuwait’s oil fields were set ablaze during the first Gulf War leaking an astounding 11 million barrels of crude oil into the Persian Gulf and creating a smoke plume stretching 800 kilometres.
Kursk and Ukraine’s looming defeat | Counterfire
WEBSep 3, 2024 · Ukraine’s offensive in Kursk is looking increasingly ill advised, and as its prospects dwindle, it becomes ever more urgent that an end is brought to this war, argues Chris Bambery For weeks, we have been told by the British political leadership and the established media that Ukraine’s attack in Russia, in the Kursk region, is a gamechanger which can bring about a Ukrainian victory, or at ...
The fight for transition is now a fight for survival
WEBAug 25, 2023 · Counterfire is growing faster than ever before. We need to raise £20,000 as we are having to expand operations. We are moving to a bigger, better central office, upping our print run and distribution, buying a new printer, new computers and …
What is Counterfire? | Counterfire
WEBFeb 14, 2022 · Counterfire is a socialist organisation committed to change from below. We believe socialists’ first job is to harness the anger of millions against the government and its attacks on working people. We support every protest, every strike and every picket. We try to build the biggest possible movements against austerity, the spiralling cost of ...
Who we are - Counterfire
WEBJun 30, 2020 · Who we are. 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 people. Real change can only be achieved by working class people organising themselves to challenge their bosses and the government that stands behind the bosses. It ...
10 years of Counterfire | Counterfire
WEBMar 7, 2020 · Marking ten years since the launch of Counterfire, Alex Snowdon reflects on why the organisation was set up and some of what we have achieved in the last decade. Counterfire will be 10 years old on 8 March. Both the website and the organisation were publicly launched on International Women’s Day 2010. A radical manifesto for women’s ...
Breakthrough in Brighton: The TUC backs the Palestine movement
WEB3 days ago · The Palestine and anti-war movements have received a major boost at the TUC Conference report Zahid Rahman and Chris Nineham. Just two years ago the TUC Congress narrowly passed a motion that pressed the government to increase defence spending and invest more in arms industries. At this week’s conference something very different happened.
News - Counterfire
WEBAug 8, 2024 · Anti fascists have taken to the streets to oppose racism and scapegoating of Muslims and migrants. Ross Maidment, Robert Anderson, Sam Colclough. News. Anti-fascist poster in South London, Aug 2023. Source: Steve Eason. 08 Aug 2024.
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