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2024: A year of crisis and disaster | Counterfire
Dec 28, 2024 · From the wave of elections, the bloody wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, to the growing threat of global heating, Terina Hine assesses the major events of the year Elections, war and climate change dominated the news in 2024. The year saw more than two billion people across fifty countries go to ...
Letter to Home Secretary: Government must intervene to defend …
2 days ago · Dozens of UK legal scholars have written to Yvette Cooper, calling for an independent inquiry into the Met Police after their policing of the National Demonstration for Palestine on 18 January In a letter to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, the lawyers describe the policing of the demonstration as “a disproportionate, unwarranted and dangerous assault on the right to assembly and protest”and ...
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Jan 10, 2025 · 24th National protest for Palestine, central London 18th January 2024. Photo: Steve Eason / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0
What is Counterfire? | Counterfire
Feb 14, 2022 · Who we are, what we stand for and why you should join us. 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.
How to escalate for peace? Gaza, wider war and a strategy to win
Oct 16, 2024 · As Israel’s atrocities mount, the pro-Palestine movement needs clarity about how to bring the largest possible numbers into its actions, argues Chris Nineham In the last year, the Palestine movement has organised one of the greatest cycles of mass demonstrations in British history, thousands of local protests, all kinds of direct …
Gaza ceasefire: Palestinian resilience and the continuing struggle …
Jan 16, 2025 · The ceasefire was something that could have happened many months ago, if the US had the will, but it was Palestinian steadfastness that brought it to pass, argue Michael Lavalette and Shabbir Lakha After 15 months of death and destruction, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is due to come to an end on Sunday 19 January.
Reject the police clampdown: Fund the fightback | Counterfire
2 days ago · Saturday’s national demonstration for Palestine saw an intensification of police repression against our movement with 77 arrests including chief steward and Counterfire member Chris Nineham. Thank you to everyone that sent messages of solidarity and protested outside the police station. Chris has ...
Who we are - Counterfire
Jun 30, 2020 · 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.
Kursk and Ukraine’s looming defeat | Counterfire
Sep 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 ...