Solidarity with British Gas strikers: their fight is our fight – News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back Counterfire Daily More...
‘Do not wreck this now’: UK govt scientist urges lockdown-weary Brits not to flout Covid rules amid ‘burning’ infection pockets
England’s deputy chief medical officer has urged people to adhere to the current lockdown restrictions and warned there’s been a slight uptick of Covid-19 case rates in some areas of the UK. Professor Jonathan More...
Looking into Palantir: Activists want NHS to come clean about secretive deal with data-mining company
Under a deal negotiated in secret with the British government, shady data firm Palantir will continue to manage NHS data for two years. Activists calling for transparency have now brought the NHS to court. When More...
Black & Asian communities trust family more than govt and media for Covid-19 vax information amid lagging BAME jab uptake in UK
New research commissioned by the British Red Cross has revealed that black, Asian and minority ethnic groups (BAME) are more likely to trust vaccine information given to them by their families than the government More...
Covid cases fall across UK to last October’s levels, statistics office reports
Covid-19 levels have fallen across the UK to rates similar to mid-October 2020, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported Friday, with slightly more than 421,000 cases in the community for the week ending More...
Until He Starts Talking About Rent Caps, Keir Starmer Isn’t Serious About Championing Business
Ahead of the 2005 general election, Virgin tycoon Richard Branson was asked on BBC Newsnight which of Britain’s two leading parties would be better for business. “Arguably, it doesn’t matter,” he replied. More...
Our children need less neoliberal education, not more – CounterBlast
Williamson’s Covid catch-up plan will not address the real fault lines in our schooling system, says Sean Ledwith Counterfire Daily More...
The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself – book review
Richard D. Wolff in The Sickness is the System exposes the flaws and failures in the capitalist economic system, and argues for workplace democracy, finds Phil Armstrong Counterfire Daily More...
Review: ‘It’s a Sin’ – A haunting look at the AIDS crisis
Channel 4’s heart-wrenching series, ‘It’s a Sin’, has become its most-watched drama series ever. The drama follows a group of young gay friends in London between 1981-91 during the AIDS crisis. Just as More...
Paris Commune @ 150 – 21 Mar, 1pm
A commemoration of the Paris Commune 150 years on Counterfire Daily More...
