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The Irish Government’s response to the US attack on Venezuela is hypocritical and exposes the extent to which the 26-County State’s membership of the EU and dependence on foreign, mostly US, capital has undermined Irish neutrality. Micheál Martin, while refusing to condemn the illegal US actions in kidnapping President Nicolás […]
Again, there is a lot of noise about the imminent end of the transatlantic alliance. ‘NATO may not survive the Trump era,’ reads a recent Time Magazine piece. ‘US intentions towards Greenland threaten NATO’s future. But European countries are not helpless,’ we are told in an expert comment for Chatham […]
The unprecedented real-time broadcast of genocide we witnessed on our phones for two years brought many new faces out onto the streets in protest against the extermination of Palestinians. “Politics aside”, some would say, “the suffering of civilians, of women and children, is heartbreaking, and it needs to stop.” This […]
On Friday, January 23rd, several thousand people braved below-freezing temperatures in Minneapolis for the first Statewide Economic Shutdown of Minnesota, a political strike and day of protests against the ongoing crackdowns by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The next morning, tensions surged again with the ICE killing of ICU […]
Société Générale was fined $1.34 billion for processing $5.5 billion in Cuba-related payments. ING bank was fined $619 million for Cuba wire transfers. European banks have been hit with 83% of all US sanctions fines. If a foreign bank defies OFAC, the US Treasury can cut off its access to […]
Events surrounding the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro on 3 January by the US continue to cause confusion and division on the Left worldwide as people try to understand what happened. Many questions have certainly been raised by the events that unfolded on […]
With Israel repeatedly announcing the launch of large-scale military operations in the West Bank, particularly in Nablus and Tubas, and more recently in Hebron, a series of reports published by Israeli and Western media during the final quarter of 2025 has resurfaced. These reports addressed what was described as “Iranian […]
It’s a question asked by many working people. The US establishment already has access to Greenland’s rich natural resources, and NATO already has a number of bases there. The Danish establishment was happy with its subordinate relationship with the US and willing to allow the US to expand its military […]
In December, I argued that calls to “tax the billionaires” stop well short of the real problem. The billionaire is not a moral aberration or a failure of regulation. The billionaire is the logical outcome of capitalism itself. That argument dealt with redistribution and its limits. This article follows directly […]
The rallying cry at demonstrations across Denmark over the past weeks has been: “Hands off. Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders.” On the face of it, a country united from left to right in resistance to US aggression. ‘We want democracy, we want freedom, we stand behind Greenland,’ they chant. ‘We […]
The Frank Conroy Committee has designed a badge to mark the 90th anniversary of thedeath of Kildare IRA volunteer, anti-fascist and Communist Party member Frank Conroy.Christy Moore took to the stage at the 2018 James Connolly Festival in the Communist Partyof Ireland’s New Theatre to give an impromptu performance of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]