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The Lucas Plan: When workers showed what could be done with …
16 hours ago · Capitalism prioritises profit at the expense of social benefit, but workers in the arms industry in the 1970s showed there is an alternative, explains Kevin Crane The global trade in weapons is always controversial, but its problematic nature has taken on a massive new relevance as our governments arm the state of Israel to the hilt, while it conducts the most terrible genocide of a generation ...
How to escalate for peace? Gaza, wider war and a strategy to win
3 days ago · Gaza, wider war and a strategy to win. Chris Nineham. 16 October 2024. Analysis. Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal aera in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. Photo: Naaman Omar / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0. As Israel’s atrocities mount, the pro-Palestine movement needs clarity about how to bring ...
Long-range missiles won’t win Ukraine war, but risk significant ...
Sep 17, 2024 · So, there seems to be little military gain to allowing Ukraine to fire long-range missiles on military targets inside Russia. The risk of escalation, however, is significant. Russia has, of course, warned that it would see the use of Western long-range missiles on targets on its territory as Nato directly going to war with Russia.
Who we are - Counterfire
Jun 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 ...
What is Counterfire? | Counterfire
Feb 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 ...
The Red Sea is now the second front in the Gaza war
Dec 19, 2023 · John Rees asks whether the Gaza war will engulf the entire Middle East Long before it hit mainstream news headlines in the last few days, a conflict has been raging in the Red Sea which could transform Israel’s war on Gaza into a regional conflict.
News - Counterfire
Oct 1, 2024 · Out for Palestine: trade union solidarity grows. Counterfire. News. Bolton Unison members out for the #CeasefireWDOA. Source: Stop The War. 10 Oct 2024.
Articles - Counterfire
6 days ago · Bombing of Bin Jbeil in 2006 Lebanon war. Photo: Avir Soltan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0. 09 Oct 2024. Lebanon: A country created, divided and destroyed by Western Imperial interests. Part Two: Israel and the degradation of Lebanon. Michael Lavalette. Opinion. Benyamin Netanyahu in 2018. Photo: Kremlin.ru / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-4.0.
The point of no return in the Middle East? | Counterfire
Oct 1, 2024 · Israel’s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, on Friday resulted in the deaths of countless civilians, buried in the rubble, as residential buildings in the capital Beirut were targeted by US-made 2,000-pound bombs. This followed on from July’s assassination of Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, which took place in Iran itself.