Lindsey German

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Lindsey German: Confronting crisis - Trump and the New World Disorder

1 week ago | counterfire.org | Lindsey German

Author Lindsey German Date 11 May 2025 Type Video Share button Facebook Share button Twitter Share button Lindsey German, author and activist, dissects the multiple crises we face, the impact of Trump and how the left should respond You can buy Lindsey’s book Class: Wealth and Power in Neoliberal Britain here Before you go The ongoing genocide in Gaza, Starmer’s austerity and the danger of a resurgent far right demonstrate the urgent need for socialist organisation and ideas. Counterfire has...
What should the left say about woke?

2 months ago | counterfire.org | Lindsey German

Author Lindsey German Date 7 March 2025 Type Opinion Share button Facebook Share button Twitter Share button Donald Trump speaks during CPAC 2022 under slogan "Awake not woke" Source: Hermann Tertsch and Victor Gonzalez - Vox España - Wikicommons / cropped form original / CC BY-SA 4.0 Culture wars and attacks on ‘woke’ can’t be fought by identity politics, argues Lindsey GermanThere have always been those who oppose equality. Women’s rights have had to be fought for.
Trump’s new world order leaves Starmer standing in the cold - weekly briefing

Feb 6, 2025 | counterfire.org | Lindsey German

Author Lindsey German Date 17 February 2025 Type Analysis Share button Facebook Share button Twitter Share button Keir Starmer in Ukraine, January 2025.
Reeves’ runway to disaster

Jan 23, 2025 | counterfire.org | Lindsey German

Author Lindsey German Date 23 January 2025 Type Opinion Share button Facebook Share button Twitter Share button World Economic Forum Lindsey German examines Rachel Reeves’ disastrous move to favour economic growth over the goal of ‘net-zero’ carbon emissionsRachel Reeves’ bonfire of regulations in the name of growth is predictably disastrous on several counts. Firstly, it throws away the extremely limited regulations and checks on developments and buildings which exist.
Gaza is not Trump’s to take over - it is Palestinian.

Jan 14, 2025 | counterfire.org | Lindsey German

Author Lindsey German Date 5 February 2025 Type Analysis Share button Facebook Share button Twitter Share button Trump & Netanyahu’s intentions echo the ethnic cleansing of the Nakba in 1948The statements from US president Donald Trump in the last 24 hours about Gaza and the Palestinians show a blatant disregard for human rights, international law and national rights to self-determination.
Tariffs: Trump’s war on workers at home and abroad - weekly briefing

Jan 14, 2025 | counterfire.org | Lindsey German

Author Lindsey German Date 2 February 2025 Type Analysis Share button Facebook Share button Twitter Share button Donald Trump at New Hampshire, January 2024. Photo: Wikimedia/Liam Enea Lindsey German looks at the new protectionismThe Trump presidential onslaughts show no sign of abating. This week he announced 25% tariffs on goods from the US neighbours Mexico and Canada, plus 10% tariffs on China.
The resistible rise of Donald Trump - weekly briefing

Nov 10, 2024 | counterfire.org | Lindsey German

Author Lindsey German Date 26 January 2025 Share button Facebook Share button Twitter Share button Donald Trump in Arizona, December 2024. Photo: Flickr/Gage Skidmore Lindsey German on POTUS and protestThe decrees ordered by Donald Trump in his first week as president have surpassed all predictions for mean, vindictive, dangerous and reactionary policies. He has pardoned those convicted over the attempted coup in January 2021, including open fascists like the Proud Boys.
Ten takeaways for the left from the Trump victory - weekly briefing

Nov 3, 2024 | counterfire.org | Lindsey German

Author Lindsey German Date 10 November 2024 Type Analysis Share button Facebook Share button Twitter Share button Donald Trump in Arizona, August 2024. Photo: Wikimedia/Gage Skidmore Lindsey German considers the latest from Washington Why did the polls and liberal media get it so wrong?
John Rose: A Revolutionary Life

Nov 1, 2024 | counterfire.org | Lindsey German

Author Lindsey German Date 1 November 2024 Type News Share button Facebook Share button Twitter Share button John Rose in an interview Dave Randall. Courtesy: Dave Randall Lindsey German pays tribute to a principled socialist, an anti-Zionist Jew who campaigned for Palestinians, and who combined an understanding of theory with lifelong practiceJohn Rose, who died on 30 October after a long illness, was a fine and spirited revolutionary and a remarkable comrade and friend.
Ukraine: endgame in the war that never should have been - weekly briefing

Oct 6, 2024 | counterfire.org | Lindsey German

Author Lindsey German Date 1 December 2024 Type Analysis Share button Facebook Share button Twitter Share button Volodymyr Zelensky at Westminster, October 2020. Photo: Flickr/Andrew Parsons Lindsey German on the cost of imperialist folly and Starmer’s morbid priority It looks as if the Ukraine war endgame has begun, but that will not be the end of conflict in Europe.