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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Liadán Ní Chuinn’s stunning short story collection is a courageous, unflinching diagnosis of an open wound. That wound is the legacy of the conflict in the British-occupied Six Counties. Ní Chuinn’s genius is to move beyond the strictly political to explore its precise, cellular-level damage within the nationalist community—how state […]
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 […]
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 […]
Capitalist liberal democracy—that is, the tolerance for alternative ideas and debate under capitalism—is tolerated only so long as those ideas do not gain sufficient traction to pose a material threat to the system itself. The suppression of support for Palestine and opposition to genocide across Europe is a prime example. […]
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 […]
Every uprising has a trigger. The Arab Spring erupted when a fruit vendor, Mohammad Bouazizi, set himself on fire in Tunisia. The words attributed to Marie Antoinette, “let them eat cake,” to people who had no bread are said to have pushed the people to the French Revolution. A peaceful […]
The followinbg is by by Aodh MacManus, International Press Correspondence, Vol. 14, No. 11, 23 February 1934 “The size and spirit of the United Ireland party’s first annual convention are an encouraging portent.” Thus the most candid of British imperialism’s organs in Ireland, the Irish Times (9 February 1934), comments […]
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 olive harvest season in Palestine begins in mid-October. The following is a report from a single day as an international volunteer assisting farmers in the West Bank. Names and locations are omitted to protect Palestinians, volunteers, and the author from Israeli regime reprisal. We rise again today at 5:30 […]
A month ago, the police assault on Kitty O’Brien, an Irish activist attending a pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin, made the news nationally and internationally. It was another reminder of the repression and violence the German state employs against Palestine solidarity. Often racialised and steeped in Islamophobia, the German anti-Palestine drive […]
The current dispute between the US and China relating to the supply of microchips has more profound implications than a one-off spat over trade. It points to a fundamental change in the global economic system, as the realisation is dawning on Washington and Brussels that the People’s Republic is inexorably […]
What is peace? What is neutrality? And what do they look like in practice? At first glance, Ireland is often described as a neutral country. We are told we are at peace. But when we dig deeper, a very different picture emerges. Ireland’s neutrality has been compromised for decades. Shannon […]