In the 25th chapter of Das Kapital, “The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation,” Marx states: “Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery …at the opposite pole.” The World Inequality Report 2026 (WIR) validates this fundamental prediction. Rising inequality is a structural feature […]
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2025: Capital in Review
The Financial Times’ annual review offers insight into contemporary capitalism (see ‘Tariff turmoil, a gold rush and the sinking dollar: 2025 in charts’ Financial Times December 25th). What the FT celebrates as a profitable year is a story about asset prices not workers’ livelihoods. Rising stock valuations and gold prices […]
The Trump Regime Continues Its Attempts to Break the Venezuelan People
The military and sanctions strategy against Venezuela, developed by U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, is as cynical as it is dangerous. This driven ideological plan is part of a global strategy of US monopoly capitalism. It hides behind the childlike […]
The New Great Game: How the United States Is Reordering the World to Contain China
Washington’s ruling class recognises a material fact: China is now too large, too economically integrated, and too militarily capable for direct confrontation. An invasive war would be catastrophic and unwinnable. US imperialism has therefore shifted towards consolidation, prioritising not global expansion but the tightening of control over strategic regional spaces, […]
A Government of Incitement: Israel’s Colonisation War Against the Palestinians
Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank is no longer marginal; it is now a declared state policy directed from the highest levels. It is implemented through an integrated system of governmental decisions, overt incitement, the arming of settlers, and the imposition of faits accomplis by force. What is taking […]
International Law Is a Selective Weapon: Morocco and Imperial Power in Western Sahara
Among the rapid peace deals on the outgoing U.S. president’s agenda is an imposed “reconciliation” between Morocco and Algeria. Compared to the flashpoints in Ukraine and Gaza, their conflict has so far been fought through propaganda, not military means. In Western Sahara, the only recurring hostilities are pinprick attacks by […]
Break the Academic Chains of Zionism: UCD Encampment and the Crisis of Imperialist Analysis in Ireland
The Break the Academic Chains of Zionism (BACZ) encampment at University College Dublin (UCD) is now the longest-running university encampment in Ireland. It has done more than expose the complicity of Irish academia in the machinery of Zionist settler-colonialism. It has revealed something deeper and far more damning: the profound […]
The Extremist Groups of Israeli Settlers in the West Bank: An Unofficial Arm for the Occupation of Palestinian Land
Across the hills between Nablus, Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Hebron, extremist settler groups have grown into organized violent formations that intimidate Palestinians on a daily basis. Comprised mainly of ideologically driven young religious settlers, these groups have become the most dangerous field arm in Israel’s project to assert control over West […]
Trump’s Ukraine Gambit Exposes Imperialist Rifts and Ireland’s Perilous Path
Donal Trump remains as unpredictable as ever and never more so than with his latest pronouncement on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Just when Europe’s leading advocates of endless war were anticipating increased US participation in the conflict on behalf of the Kiev regime, Trump disappointed them. The Whitehouse […]
The Pacification of the Palestinian Struggle
Let us be clear: there is no ceasefire in Gaza or Palestine. The reality is that despite a genocidal campaign, the Zionist military and its imperialist backers have failed to militarily defeat the guerrilla resistance or break the will of the Palestinian people. Up to 200,000 tons of largely American […]
Letter to Editor: From Palestine to the Planet—Our Disobedience Must Be Universal
Imagine the sheer number of protests that have erupted across the globe since the genocide in occupied Palestine began on October 7th, 2023. Here in Ireland, we have witnessed an unprecedented wave of civil disobedience in virtually every village, town, and city—a pattern replicated worldwide. We have been inundated with condemnatory statements […]
The Left is the Alternative: Kerala’s Path Against Imperialism
Twenty-first-century imperialism can no longer rely on classic colonialism to transfer surplus from the Global South to the Global North. Instead, neoliberalism offshores production to low-wage countries, manufacturing commodities at lower costs by pushing wages below subsistence levels. This model requires sustained poverty in the Global South as a fundamental precondition for […]
Speech: Manchester Martyrs Commemoration, 2025
Comrades and friends, On behalf of the Robert Emmet 1916 Society, it is an honour to stand in Manchester to commemorate three bold Fenians—William Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O’Brien—whose courage continues to fuel our unfinished struggle. We are not spectators of history, but participants in a living revolution. Empire […]
Israeli Violations During the Olive Harvest: A War on Palestinian Land and Identity
The olive harvest in Palestine is more than an agricultural event; it is a centuries-old national ritual, a living testament to the deep, material connection between the Palestinian people and their land. Yet, in 2025, this season of sustenance and solidarity was transformed into one of terror and confrontation, revealing […]
Report: 15th World Socialist Forum: Beijing
The 15th World Socialist Forum (3-4 November, Beijing, Chinese Academy of History) and the Zhejiang University International Academic Forum (7 November, Hangzhou, Zhejiang University Library) hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) are important platforms for academics, social scientists, Marxists, and activists to exchange ideas. They are particularly […]
Saving Capitalism is the Priority, Not the Planet
For another year, the COP (Conference of the Parties) climate summit has proven to be an exercise in the most cynical of language games. The evasive jargon of COP remains an accurate reflection of the power relations in the world’s energy market, and a testament to its universal disregard for […]
