Counterblog

Our online pieces are usually shorter and punchier than the long form pieces which you’ll find in our print editions. The blog is updated regularly.

Aidan Monks Aidan Monks

House of Bondage


‘It is important to appreciate the power of photography like Cole’s not just as a political instrument for future generations, as much as a magnifying glass for contemporary issues.’


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Juan De Grazia Juan De Grazia

To A Leftist

Socialism, in all its forms, intrinsically compels one to take up the cause of animals, no matter what fuels your ideology. Environmentally, capital production of meat and animal products competes with petroleum for the most sordid, hellish conception of an industry one could conceive.


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Campaigns Iain Lynn Campaigns Iain Lynn

Student Protest, What and How

An effective protest seems to comprise three general points – it is targeted, constant, and disruptive. We are not here to simply ignore or be dictated to, we are a group with shared collective interests.

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Culture & Media Aidan Monks Culture & Media Aidan Monks

Brooklyn Revisited

If the most moral thing a ’serious novelist’ can do is not shy away from injustice, but instead to hold a viewfinder up to it, then Hubert Selby, Jr. is one of the U.S. literati’s patron saints.

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