https://www.counterfire.org Socialist organisation and political website | Free Palestine Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:31:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.counterfire.org/article/british-spy-flights-over-gaza-go-undetected-by-uk-media/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:30:39 +0000 https://www.counterfire.org/?post_type=article&p=43855

The pliant British media refuses to cover stories of public interest about the ongoing genocide says Des Freedman]]> https://www.counterfire.org/article/the-captains-coup-from-dictatorship-to-democracy-in-portugal-1974-1976-book-review/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:26:16 +0000 https://www.counterfire.org/?post_type=article&p=43856

A contemporary account of the Portuguese revolution by an important Western dissident figure provides much of interest, but also much to debate, finds Chris Bambery]]> https://www.counterfire.org/article/desperate-measures-why-the-clampdown-over-palestine-can-be-made-to-fail/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:45:12 +0000 https://www.counterfire.org/?post_type=article&p=43850

Attacks on the Palestine movement are backfiring argues Chris Nineham]]> https://www.counterfire.org/article/how-the-bank-of-england-is-enforcing-austerity/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:18:56 +0000 https://www.counterfire.org/?post_type=article&p=43845

The central bank’s quantitative tightening programme is not much discussed, but is central to the government’s cuts and failure to invest in public services, argues Dominic Alexander]]> https://www.counterfire.org/article/the-fossil-fuel-profits-behind-trumps-texas-disaster/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:41:00 +0000 https://www.counterfire.org/?post_type=article&p=43832

Trump’s denial that the death toll from the Texas floods is the fault of his cuts feeds into adangerous new recklessness of the fossil-fuel sector, argues John Clarke This week’s disastrous flooding in Texas has raised questions about the degree to which the situation may have been worsened by the climate denialism and budget cutting […]]]> https://www.counterfire.org/article/tony-blair-and-the-disgusting-capitalist-fantasy-for-gaza/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:43:15 +0000 https://www.counterfire.org/?post_type=article&p=43826

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]]> https://www.counterfire.org/article/tebbit-bites-the-dust/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:41:17 +0000 https://www.counterfire.org/?post_type=article&p=43822

The death of Norman Tebbit is an opportunity to remember the Thatcher governments in which he served, and the disastrous legacy they left, argues John Westmoreland]]> https://www.counterfire.org/article/labours-plans-for-the-nhs-risk-another-privatisation-disaster/ Tue, 08 Jul 2025 10:54:57 +0000 https://www.counterfire.org/?post_type=article&p=43782

The involvement of the private sector in the NHS has already had awful consequences, but Labour seems determined to expand the failed privatisation model, explains Graham Kirkwood]]> https://www.counterfire.org/article/why-do-we-need-a-new-left-party/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 22:54:00 +0000 https://www.counterfire.org/?post_type=article&p=43771

Lindsey German spoke to Ali Miraj on LBC about the appeal and prospects for a new left party]]> https://www.counterfire.org/article/the-lancashire-model-we-are-stronger-together/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 21:40:04 +0000 https://www.counterfire.org/?post_type=article&p=43767

The local elections that took place on 1 May saw Reform perform particularly strongly, but amidst the gloom, the strong showing of left Independent councillors in Lancashire offered a shaft of light for an alternative future. Michael Lavalette spoke with recently-elected Lancashire county councillors Almas Razakazi and Maheen Kamran about what motivated them to take on the establishment parties.]]>