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Socialists, Republicans and Communists have been meeting together under the auspices of the Peadar O’Donnell Socialist Republican Forum, on the distressing issue of the torture of Palestinian political prisoners, held as hostages by the Zionists in Israeli jails. The fifth conference was held in Dublin’s Teachers Club on Sunday 25th […]
The United States is working to limit tensions between its allies in the Middle East as it prepares, alongside Israel, a regime change for Iran. The Pentagon has deployed additional forces to US bases in the Gulf states and to the US-UK military base in Diego Garcia. Meanwhile, another front, […]
Largely absent from the Western historical narrative, Thomas Müntzer (c. 1489–1525) was a radical German theologian, preacher, and revolutionary whose vision went far beyond religious reform. While Martin Luther sought to challenge Church corruption within existing feudal structures, Müntzer aimed for a complete social upheaval. His leadership during the German […]
Since 2008, governments across mature capitalist economies have come to rely heavily on debt issuance. For example, governments in the US, Japan, the UK, France, and Italy are now structurally dependent on deficit spending, low interest rates and debt rollover to maintain political-economic stability. Persistent deficits, even during tepid growth, […]
Last year The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) issued an alarming report that should be known and talked about yet received comparatively little coverage. The report, entitled Europe’s hidden security crisis- How data about European defence personnel and political leaders flows to foreign states and non-state actors, outlines how […]
As South Korea faces political turmoil – an impeached president, public outrage, and a pivotal election – recent events reveal deeper systemic fractures rooted in imperialism, authoritarianism, and comprador capitalism. Historical Foundations: Colonialism and Cold War Repression South Korea’s modern political economy was forged under Japanese colonialism (1910–1945), which exploited […]
China’s economy is now 23% larger than the US according to the IMF. China is the largest trading partner with Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Japan and third largest to the EU. The Belt and Road Initiative has gone from strength to strength since 2013 and is the centrepiece […]
In Gaza today, we are witnessing an atrocity: an attempt not merely to kill a people but to erase them. Whole families exterminated, hospitals turned to rubble, libraries turned to ash. This is not simply military conquest, it is the logic of settler colonialism: the logic of elimination. The goal […]
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 […]
By the end of China’s civil war in 1949, the country was severely damaged: its agriculture decimated, most transport routes destroyed, the industrial infrastructure looted by the Japanese. Despite chaos, poverty, and hunger, Mao Zedong successfully built a centrally planned economy and a self-reliant military. The first Five-Year Plan in […]
At the end of April, the first draft of China’s Environment Code was presented. The second large legislative undertaking in this decade for the Chinese legislators after the introduction of the Civil Code, the Environment Code harmonises the corpus of over 30 environment laws, amounting for 10% of the overall […]
Despite Wahhabi jihadist Jolani’s assurances that minorities would be safe in new Syria, Alawite communities have been subject to a number of massacres since December 2024. On 4th March, Jolani’s gangs of the so-called “new Syria” regime launched a campaign against Alawites in the Daatour neighbourhood of Latakia. Mainstream media […]
Comrades from the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) recently participated in a series of events in Tarancón, Jarama, Madrid and Co Tyrone organised by Friends of the International Brigades Ireland (FIBI) to commemorate the heroic sacrifices of the International Brigades in the Spanish Anti-Fascist War 1936-1939. The International Brigades were […]
The war between NATO/EU and Russia continues but an end seems in sight. However, whether the war ends soon, or whether the EU and Britain manage to prolong it, the future for Ukraine looks bleak. Its ruling class has been a willing pawn in US plans to reimpose its dominance […]
Are we are now seeing a different side of Donald Trump? Is this to be the no-nonsense bringer of peace to Eastern Europe. The man who will end the NATO-led proxy war against Russia. There can be little doubt that the US president has dramatically altered the situation vis-a-vis Ukraine […]
The Western Zionist ruling class has one main foe that can break its hegemony: China. BRICS’ policy of de-dollarization is the greatest threat to the US. “Greater Israel” is a religiously motivated project that aligns with the interests of the US ruling class to block China’s influence over the EU […]