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The Spanish Civil War and Revolution: a reading list
20+ hour, 35+ min ago (690+ words) There are two books which I am going to omit from this list. Both are must-reads but they are so obvious I am not going to include them: George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell…...
NEU nationally " Strikes and pickets galore and more!
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (205+ words) There are many local'NEU'strikes across the country and possibly something near to where you live. Join a picket where you can. Below are just a few of the disputes but there are many more.' Rushey Green Primary School, striking over…...
Climate change: too hot for our rulers to handle " weekly briefing
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (1215+ words) Counterfire Lindsey German on climate chaos and capitalism's inability to deal with it Europe is burning. Temperatures are at record levels. Its major capital cities " London, Berlin, Paris, have had highs in the past week of top 30s or even over…...
Europe is burning " weekly briefing
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (631+ words) Counterfire Lindsey German on climate chaos and capitalism's inability to deal with it Temperatures are at record levels. Europe's major capital cities " London, Berlin, Paris, have highs of top 30s or even over 40 degrees. In London there have been two record-breaking…...
Escalating strikes between the US and Iran exposes fractures in the ceasefire agreement
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (1155+ words) As the military strikes by both Iran and the United States intensify they obviously beg the question of whether the Memorandum of Understanding agreed by Tehran and Washington, allowing for a 60 day ceasefire across the region can hold. But even…...
Gramsci's Marxism, part 2: Coercion and consent
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (1030+ words) Antonio Gramsci was a committed internationalist, but he was fighting within the confines of a nation state, Italy. The Prison Notebooks examine the terrain on which that fight had to be waged. For Gramsci Italy was a "bastard" state. National…...
Still a thorny subject " Cactus Pears: film review
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (788+ words) Counterfire With his directorial debut feature, Rohan Kanawade's "Cactus Pears" is a touching queer romance with a tender embrace. Exploring themes of family, class and changing attitudes in rural India, Peter Morgan reviews a film where subtle messages reveal happiness…...
Iran and the US: a ceasefire that lasts?
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (1204+ words) Even if a peace with Iran holds, the energy shock will not ease quickly and stagflation and weakened economies in Europe and Asia in particular is likely, explains Michael Roberts Financial markets and the world in general let out a…...
El Obeid will be the next catastrophe in Sudan
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (641+ words) Now the RSF have turned their attention to El Obeid with the UN security council issuing a warning that will do nothing to stop the brutality that will be inflicted upon the people in the capital city of the North…...
Revolutions Thwarted: Poland, South Africa, Iran, Brazil and the Legacies of Communism " book review
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (246+ words) The general background was not favourable; the ruling classes" neoliberal offensive was already making headway in the early 1980s, throwing the left in many countries onto the defensive and into disarray. The collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellites, which…...