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In the dark days of December, the Irish ruling class through their government, not once, not twice but three times displayed their contempt for the concept of democracy and political and economic sovereignty. They rushed through the Dail their proposals to abandon the Triple Lock governing the deployment of Irish […]
Edwin Starr’s epic anti-war song from the 1970’s asked the question ‘War, what is it good for?’ and answered ‘Absolutely Nothin!’. Notwithstanding the noble aspirations of the writer and how it positively reflected and resonated with the growing anti-Vietnam mobilisations in the US, we beg to differ with Mr Starr […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
A new fashion dominates polite progressive politics: denouncing the billionaire. The political and media establishment now routinely laments rising inequality, yet their critique never dares to name the system that produces it. Their solution—their rallying cry—is as bold as a wet leaf: “tax the billionaires.” At first glance, the demand […]
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 […]
Ireland’s projected budget surpluses for 2025 and 2026—€10.2 billion and €5.1 billion—havesparked renewed calls from the political and media establishment for deeper militaryintegration with Europe. The Financial Times, in a recent piece labelling Ireland “the weaklink in EU defence,” claims that because Ireland hosts Big Tech, Big Pharma and Big […]
The misery of academia in Ireland today reflects the deep subordination of intellectual life to the intertwined forces of Zionism, capital, and militarised research. The Irish university has become an instrument of Zionist-dominated imperialist, geopolitical, and corporate power. Ireland’s universities now operate under the neoliberal laws of profit, where the language of […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Progress is never linear, consistent, smooth or at a fixed rate. Class consciousness, and its militant organisation, in the west is at a low-ebb right now, however, anti-imperialist struggle is renewed in many parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America. New global alliances and formations, although not always socialist, are […]