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Ten years on from the unlikely victory of Jeremy Corbyn in the British Labour Party leadership contest, and his subsequent exile from the Labour Party following a Zionist-led smear campaign over accusations of antisemitism, it has to be asked if there’s anything new to say about that brief moment when […]
Forbes magazine is calling them a “good investment”, a “strong market collectible for years to come”. From K-pop superstars Blackpink, to Karl Marx’s grave in London’s Highgate Cemetery, Labubus (small, rabbit-eared plush toys) are taking the world by storm. With the rarest varieties selling for up to $150,000, fans have […]
The existential threat posed against humans are climate change, nuclear war and AI, all three are linked to a capitalist mode of production and the production relation it entails. The last time an apocalypse happened was 65 million years ago when an asteroid collided with earth before the emergence of […]
It was about time. Clíodhna Bhreatnach’s Pink roses, green is a collection of poems about working time. While that may, at first, seem as a reductive description of the broad set of themes Bhreatnach captures in her verse, this collection reminds us just how wide and all-encompassing the concept is. […]
In 1962, Shostakovich composed his 13th Symphony, based on five poems by Yevtushenko. These poems reflect on Soviet society during the 1950s and 60s, exploring themes ranging from the suffering caused by Nazi Germany and the resilience found in humour, to the trauma of Stalinism and the strength of suffering […]
From at least the 11th Century, Irish people have lived experience of genocide, imprisonment, starvation and expulsion from their land; and Ireland. Outside of Ireland, they have also experienced racism, inequality and exploitation. Countless Irish people have been excluded, banned and even deported from countries, just because they were Irish […]
In an era of cultural homogenisation and sanitised commercial music, Irish language, punk-rap trio Kneecap stand out as a raw, unapologetic expression of working-class resistance and international solidarity with the oppressed. Their explosive rise to fame is not just a musical phenomenon but a political one—rooted in anti-imperialism, socialist struggle, and […]
Trade unions resist capitalism but do not abolish it. However, Lenin said trade unions are the schools for revolution: it is from there the communist parties traditionally draw their cadres. For a worker, trade union consciousness is natural because they fight for wages to survive, but the fight for socialism […]
A poem in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock (for Kneecap) Glastonbury Legend has it that Jesus himself came here With Joseph of Arimathea. Jesus the Carpenter lent a hand to build a church Of clay and wattles made Incitement of love was His desire […]
When Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp became the first Kannada work—and first short story collection—to win the 2025 International Booker Prize, it marked more than a literary triumph. It marked a pivotal recognition of regional Indian literature and brought overdue attention to the voices of Muslim women in rural Karnataka. Translated by Deepa […]
Step into the vibrant, resilient world of Cuban cinema this July, as The New Theatre proudly hosts this year’s three-day film festival celebrating the enduring artistry of the island nation. From 24th to 26th July 2025, we invite you to explore the rich tapestry of Cuban storytelling, a testament to […]
Michael Crummey’s The Adversary, winner of the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, is a dark, atmospheric novel that probes the brutal complexities of early colonial Newfoundland through themes of power, class, and survival. Set in a remote coastal community marked by hardship and hierarchy, the narrative interrogates the moral and human costs […]
The Communist Party of Ireland expresses its solidarity with Kneecap, who are now under serious threat by the forces of the British State. The arrest and charging of one of the group’s members Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, is just the latest in the ongoing effort to silence the group and […]
This year’s James Connolly Festival runs from Tuesday 6th to Sunday 11th May 2025 with almost all events taking place at Connolly House and The New Theatre. It will include a week-long James Connolly Art Exhibition. Seven artists have been invited to prepare prints and paintings that will be available […]
Western Marxism (WM) by Dominico Losurdo, translated into English and published recently by Monthly Review, is an important work exposing the idealism, pro-imperialism and eurocentrism (i.e. the paternalistic approach towards struggles in the periphery) of western Marxists. In the introduction, the book explains that WM is not a geographical orientation […]
Ilan Pappé, as readers may know, is one of the most controversial of Israel’s “new historians” after having sacrificed his academic career there by publishing extensively on the buried history of the Nakba and challenging official Zionist accounts of the colonisation of Palestine. His most recent work, Lobbying for Zionism […]