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James Connolly Festival 2025

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 […]

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Book Review: Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn, by Domenico Losurdo 

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 […]

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The German Peasants’ War 

The German Peasants’ War (1524–1525) was a large-scale social and political uprising in early modern Europe, where peasants, who constituted the majority of the population, revolted against the oppressive feudal system. Trapped in servitude, the peasants were burdened with labour and levies to the nobility while a growing bourgeois class […]

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Communist Party of Ireland May Day Message 2025

The Communist Party of Ireland sends May Day greetings to the working class of Ireland, to all anti-imperialist and progressive organisations, to the international Communist movement, to all those struggling against imperialism, colonialism, fascism and native capitalism, and to those actively struggling to build socialism in their workplaces and communities. […]

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Military Keynesianism Strikes Back

As recent announcements indicate, both the European Union and the British government have markedly oriented public spending policies towards militarisation. The North of our island has been a direct recipient of such expenditures, notably Thales in Belfast. Military expenditure historically plays three important roles in capitalist societies: it protects the […]