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Book Reviews

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel - book review

Rachel Holmes’ monumental biography of Sylvia Pankhurst succeeds in capturing her energy and brilliance, and the relevance of her causes for today, finds Katherine...

How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women

How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women: resisting war, asserting our liberation

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Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst: War and Imperialism

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Podcast

The revolutionary life of Sylvia Pankhurst - Counterfire Media Podcast

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Engels 200

Engels was right, class society and women's oppression aren't inevitable or irreversible

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Video

The limits of identity politics - video

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Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst: Militancy and Mass Mobilisation

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Socialist Explainers

Is a society without oppression possible? - explainer

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
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Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?

Following the recent controversy around a new statue commemorating Mary Wollstonecraft, Jaqueline Mulhallen looks at the life and times of this radical
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Mary Wollstonecraft statue is a poor representation of her radical ideas

The new statue commemorating Mary Wollstonecraft will disappoint socialists and feminists as it fails to represent what she stood for, argues Lindsey
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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 Polish women's strike is an anti-fascist struggle

Fascists have joined forces with the Polish government to attack women protesting against the abortion ban, but women are fighting back, reports Reece
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Abortion ban in Poland: the government is waging war on women

The ruling against abortions in Poland is a monstrous assault on women which should be resisted as part of the wider fight against the populist right
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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
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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
The Equal Pay Act at 50: a bittersweet celebration

That women workers’ pay in the UK continues to lag significantly behind that of men underlines the limits of legal change under capitalism, argues Susan
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Engels was right, class society and women's oppression aren't inevitable or irreversible

As part of our series on the revolutionary Frederick Engels, on the 200th anniversary of his birth, Elaine Graham-Leigh looks at Engels' The Origins
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Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time: books that made me a socialist

A startling fusion of science fiction and feminism selected by Dave Randall
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
Why the working-class, socialist history of International Women’s Day matters today

On International Women's Day, Katherine Connelly looks at its origins in the socialist and feminist movements led by working class women
10 years of Counterfire

Marking ten years since the launch of Counterfire, Alex Snowdon reflects on why the organisation was set up and some of what we have achieved in the last
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Labour in vain? – weekly briefing

Lindsey German on post-Corbynism and the trans debate
Bernie Sanders vs the Democrat establishment – weekly briefing

Lindsey German on democratic socialism, witch-hunting and the fight for women’s liberation
Cyprus: an attack on women everywhere

We must all do our part to fight systematic rape culture, writes Elly Badcock
‘All Sorts of Woman’: review of Selina Todd’s Tastes of Honey and the National Theatre’s A Taste of Honey

Selina Todd’s biography of Shelagh Delaney contains an urgent political message and a new performance of Delaney’s most famous play shows us how radical
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Unelected judges deny the right to strike - election briefing 14 November

Lindsey German on the attack on the posties and women’s work
7 black heroes that changed the world

For Black History Month, Counterfire asked activists today to tell us about their black hero and how they provide inspiration in our struggles
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