Rebel’s Guide to Marxism
“Practice without theory is blind. Theory without practice is sterile.” – Karl Marx
“No coarser insult, no baser aspersion, can be thrown against the workers than the remarks: ‘Theoretic controversies are only for academicians.’” – Rosa Luxemburg
“Moral—Don’t be “practical” in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves which those who rob you would desire you to think.” – James Connolly
Revolutionary Socialism
- Who is the working class today?
- An Introduction to the Politics of Revolutionary Socialism
- Why You Should Read Labour in Irish History by James Connolly
Reform or Revolution
- Can Workers Run Society?
- The Chilean Coup: The Myth of a Parliamentary Road to Socialism
- Rosa Luxemburg and the Relevance of Reform or Revolution Today
Palestine
- Zionism’s Death Spiral
- Colonial Delusions and the Execution of Yahya Al-Sinwar
- The Palestinian Authority: Corruption, Collusion and Complicity
- Between political gaslighting and supply chains: Ireland is complicit in the Gaza genocide
Marxist Feminism
- Women of the Easter Rising
- International Women’s Day
- The Two Souls of Feminism
- An Introduction to Marxist Feminism
Anti-Fascism
- Why We Need to Counter the Far Right on the Streets
- What is Fascism? Then and Now
- Free Speech – As long as it’s not “woke”: The pushback against gender rights in a digital era
- Immigration and the Irish Working Class
James Connolly
- Connolly on Socialism and Nationalism
- James Connolly: July the 12th
- James Connolly and Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition
- James Connolly And War
Imperialism
- 9/11 and The War On Terror – 20 Years On
- DISMANTLING NEUTRALITY: Government move to scrap triple lock
- Imperialism is Alive and Unwell
- ReArming Europe and European Imperialism
Re-unification?
- Is a United Ireland Inevitable?
- Let Us Free Ireland – James Connolly
- United Ireland: Why the Establishment Wants to Keep Stormont
- Why You Should Read Labour in Irish History by James Connolly
Queer Liberation
- Stonewall: 50 Years On
- Transphobia Set in Stone: UK Supreme Court Ruling – Two Months On
- Bitch On Wheels: Sylvia Rivera and STAR
Ecosocialism
- Anthropocene & the Great Species Extinction
- Ian Angus on the Politics of Ecosocialism
- Growth & Degrowth: What Should Ecosocialists Say? – Part One
Looking South
- The Forced Adoption Scandal
- The Shady Origins of Fine Gael
- Lessons of the Easter Rising
- Michael Collins: Patriot Hero Or Counterrevolutionary?
Partition
- Eamonn McCann: Why the Agreement Failed
- Burntollet: How the establishment whitewashed the Civil Rights Movement
- Partition: The Subversion of Self-Determination
- Interview with Daniel Finn – Part One
Sectarianism
- Endgame for Unionism?
- Flags, Banners & Sinn Féin Spin
- Fiona Ferguson on Arlene Foster’s tenure
- Colonial Provocateurs: The Irish Language Culture Wars
Economics
- Tax Havens: How the System Steals
- The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall
- Marx, Engels and Metabolic Rift – Part One
- Europe, Military Spending and the Arms Economy
Radical History
- 1968: When America Exploded
- France 68: Students Rising
- What did they die for? – Part 1
- The 1857 Rebellion in Colonial India
Anti-Racism
- Racism and the 1%
- Discussing the Black Panthers
- Frantz Fanon and the struggle against colonisation
- Anti-Semitism Today: Weaponised and on the Rise
Culture
- James Joyce: A Literary Rebel
- The Dialectics of Art
- Vampires of Capitalism: Marx, Dracula & the Gothic Novel
- For a People’s Casement Park
Revolutionaries Series
Trade Unions
- Do We Need Red Unions?
- 5 Lessons from the Debenhams Strike
- The Scourge of Social Partnership
- The Dublin Lockout of 1913