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As a trans woman, this is the unity I want to see

In the trans debate we need less heat and more light, argues Kristina Jayne Harrison
Burkini ban: taking the anger back to the French state

Friday night’s central London emergency protest shows how Islamophobia must be countered, reports Katherine Connelly
Burkini ban: the Islamophobia that lies beneath the beach secularism

Is France's left doing enough to challenge the new wave of state Islamophobia, asks John Mullen
Exquisite and hard hitting: 'Working from Home' by Julie McCalden

Sue Tate reviews Working from Home by Julie McCalden at The Museum of Bath at Work
Film Review: Misbehaviour is misjudged

Women's liberation struggles deserve to be made into films, but Misbehaviour is not one of them says Penny Hicks
Is a society without oppression possible? - explainer

In the seventh part of a series of socialist explainers, Elaine Graham-Leigh analyses where oppression comes from and if it can be overcome
Labour in vain? – weekly briefing

Lindsey German on post-Corbynism and the trans debate
Marxism and Feminism

Marxism and Feminism explores the connections between capitalism and women’s oppression through a range of serious and perceptive arguments, finds Lindsey German
Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Towards a Unitary Theory

Lindsey German welcomes a new edition of a classic of Marxist Women’s Liberation theory, which opens up rich debates over the nature and origins of women’s oppression
Marxism and Women's Liberation

Buy online: A cutting edge guide to the way class and women's oppression intersect, and how emancipation must be linked to system change
The Coronavirus crisis amplifies women’s oppression

Lindsey German argues that women and sex inequality should be at the centre of our analysis of social transformation.
The fire last time: when ghetto riots rocked America

Alastair Stephens looks at how riots changed American history and represented a historic challenge to the ruling order
The limits of identity politics - video

Elaine Graham-Leigh explains the origins and limitations of identity politics and what a Marxist understanding of oppression and how to overcome it offers
Unelected judges deny the right to strike - election briefing 14 November

Lindsey German on the attack on the posties and women’s work
Women's liberation and the trans debate

Debates around the questions of the oppression of trans people and the oppression of women are intensifying. Sometimes positions are being expressed in ways that do not help us to move forward in the struggle for liberation. Counterfire is publishing the following document as a contribution to the discussion.
Work, Sex and Power

The entire human history of exploitation and oppression is vividly summarised in Willie Thompson’s Work, Sex, Power, finds Mike Quille