Counterfire

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...

1 month ago | counterfire.org

Trump's tariff wars will result in grim results for all economies involved, argues Dominic Alexander Trump’s threats have finally become a reality, and a global tariff war has been ignited.

2 months ago | counterfire.org

US trade wars will prompt capitalist rulers elsewhere to impose new rounds of austerity to shore up their own profits, as shown in Canada already, argues John Clarke Donald Trump’s threatened tariff measures are still looming over Canada.

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.

2 months ago | counterfire.org | John Rees

Author John Rees Date 19 February 2025 Type Analysis Share button Facebook Share button Twitter Share button Donald Trump, Feb 2025. Photo: White House / Public Domain The end of globalisation and a new protectionist era is emerging. For socialists the main enemy is, as always, at home, argues John ReesWe are entering a new historic era.