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Hardly a week passes without a new attack upon the neutrality of this state—a policy supported by the majority of the people of Ireland. It is not just an attack upon neutrality, but against the Irish people themselves. At the end of October 2025, a former senior NATO commander, Rear […]
Every uprising has a trigger. The Arab Spring erupted when a fruit vendor, Mohammad Bouazizi, set himself on fire in Tunisia. The words attributed to Marie Antoinette, “let them eat cake,” to people who had no bread are said to have pushed the people to the French Revolution. A peaceful […]
The followinbg is by by Aodh MacManus, International Press Correspondence, Vol. 14, No. 11, 23 February 1934 “The size and spirit of the United Ireland party’s first annual convention are an encouraging portent.” Thus the most candid of British imperialism’s organs in Ireland, the Irish Times (9 February 1934), comments […]
The Guardian recently reported that International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva admitted the rapid rise of non-bank lending “keeps me awake every so often at night” (“Head of IMF says risks in private credit market keep her awake at night”, The Guardian, 16 October 2025). The Financial Times […]
The olive harvest season in Palestine begins in mid-October. The following is a report from a single day as an international volunteer assisting farmers in the West Bank. Names and locations are omitted to protect Palestinians, volunteers, and the author from Israeli regime reprisal. We rise again today at 5:30 […]
A month ago, the police assault on Kitty O’Brien, an Irish activist attending a pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin, made the news nationally and internationally. It was another reminder of the repression and violence the German state employs against Palestine solidarity. Often racialised and steeped in Islamophobia, the German anti-Palestine drive […]
The current dispute between the US and China relating to the supply of microchips has more profound implications than a one-off spat over trade. It points to a fundamental change in the global economic system, as the realisation is dawning on Washington and Brussels that the People’s Republic is inexorably […]
What is peace? What is neutrality? And what do they look like in practice? At first glance, Ireland is often described as a neutral country. We are told we are at peace. But when we dig deeper, a very different picture emerges. Ireland’s neutrality has been compromised for decades. Shannon […]
The 3rd International Meeting of the Theoretical Publications of Leftist Parties and Movements (15–17 October) and the 1st Festival Granma Rebelde (17–19 October) constituted an important programme leading to the Cuban National Culture Day on 20 October this year. Organised in a period of extreme difficulty for the people of […]
The German auto industry is burning out. Next Wednesday, the production lines at Volkswagen will stand idle. According to information from Bild, production of the VW Golf at the Wolfsburg plant will be suspended. The production break will then be gradually extended to other models and to other locations. The […]
Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germans still earn roughly 21 percent less than their western counterparts. According to figures from the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), full-time employees in the east make on average €13,400 less per year. Symbolically, that means from 16 October until […]
More than half a century ago, on 9 October 1967, the rifle of the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara fell silent in the Bolivian mountains. Yet the echo of his words has remained alive across the Global South, from the Andes to the refugee camps of Gaza. Today, 58 years […]
The outcome of the presidential election with the victory of the independent left candidateCatherine Connolly is to be strongly welcomed. Connolly captured the mood of the peoplewith her message of a new, a different “Republic”. She presented a positive vision of adifferent Ireland, an Ireland of equality, of justice and […]
Friends of Socialist China held its second annual China Conference on Saturday, September 27. Delegates gathered in London’s Bolivar Hall to hear expert presentations from an international range of diplomatic representatives, progressive scholars and activists on such topics as: 80 years since the defeat of fascism—China as a force for […]
In recent years, the government of São Paulo, led by Governor Tarcísio de Freitas, has spent over 37 million Brazilian Reais on contracts with Israeli military companies. These include Israel Weapons Industries, Meprolight, and Cellebrite, known for their weapons and surveillance technologies. These tools, often described as “combat-tested,” are now […]
In recent weeks, the United States has sharply escalated its attempts to throttle the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Under the pretext of fighting drugs, the US has deployed thousands of troops, warships, a nuclear submarine, and F-35 fighter jets off the Caribbean coast of Venezuela. These forces have attacked fishing […]