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Community is not fixed—like everything else in society, it changes as the material conditions of the world change. Today, conservative myths of community are being mobilised not only by the far right, but regrettably by sections of the left too. If we’re serious about building a better world,
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Aislinn Shanahan Daly explains how publishing under capitalism is dominated by corporations, and how everyone in society loses out as a result. She argues that collective organising by researchers and staff within academic institutions and systemic change are needed to put an end to the for-profit rip-off of
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At Marxism 2020, Aislinn Shanahan Daly spoke about the global fight for bodily autonomy. Her speech, published here, looks at different ways bodily autonomy is denied in capitalist society, the role of social reproduction in the oppression of women, and the fight for our bodies globally. If we go back
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Eugenics neither began nor ended with the Nazis, despite the term being most-often associated with their despicable crimes. As the far-right attempt to rehabilitate these abhorrent ideas, Aislinn Shanahan Daly traces some of the hidden history of eugenics. It is a dark omen that the word eugenics has
Covid-19
Before the Coronavirus hit, we were already living through a mental health crisis. Aislinn Shanahan Daly looks at how the pandemic exacerbates this precarious situation, and argues that solidarity will be more important than ever in the coming period. “Indeed the combined effects of fear, confinement, income loss and the
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Aislinn Shanahan Daly looks at the limitations of Fine Gael’s Gender Pay Gap Bill, and the cynical way the party has sought to co-opt the struggle for gender equality. Fine Gael would have us believe that they are the new face of a changing and liberalising Ireland. After
68' Legacies
The events of May ‘68 in France were an unprecedented eruption of people power that shook the world. In the next installment of our 1968 series, TCD student Aislinn Shanahan Daly looks back at the student uprising in France that changed Europe forever. The events of May ‘68 in France