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This year’s COP28 summit will take place in the United Arab Emirates petrostate and will be headed up by the CEO of an oil company, Sultan Al Jaber. Colin Redmond calls this farce out for what it is and argues for a boycott of the summit. In November of
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The Irish Government survived a vote of confidence today, two days ahead of the lifting of the eviction ban. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin looks at the record of the Green Party and how they have kept this landlord Government going. When the Green Party were on the brink of entering coalition
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Who fears a Left Government? Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin explores the media meltdown that heralded the arrival of People Before Profit’s new pamphlet. In 1996 BBC journalist Andrew Marr interviewed Noam Chomsky about his theory of the media, Manufacturing Consent. Among other things, Chomsky spoke about the role of the
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Bríd Smith TD explains why buying carbon credits for missing targets is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Ireland’s climate action fraud. The news that Ireland will buy carbon credits worth up to €3 million from Slovakia to make up for missing targets in 2021
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Seán Mitchell pays tribute to John Molyneux. On the 10th of December 2022, the revolutionary Marxist tradition tragically lost of one its finest proponents. 74 years old, 54 of them as a revolutionary, John Molyneux—thinker, writer and revolutionary activist—was a long-distance runner on the road to a
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In his biography of Lenin, Georg Lukács claimed that ‘the actuality of revolution’ was at the core of his thought. By this, he meant that Lenin restored Marxism to the working class revolution as a practical reality. Revolution was not just a distant dream or a rhetorical flourish for those
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From climate denial to greenwashing, John Molyneux charts the manner in which the fossil fuel lobby and the establishment in general have lied and mislead the public over the dangers of the climate crisis. He argues that, ultimately, these same people cannot solve the crisis, and that we must urgently
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As People Before Profit prepare to introduce a Bill to Dáil Éireann which would ban new data centres in Ireland, Alexandra Day looks at the disasterous impact of these centres for the environment and communities. The proliferation of data centres is becoming an area of increasing concern for environmentalists in
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This summer’s dramatic accumulation of extreme weather events, from the western American heat dome to the German floods, the Greek and Turkish fires, and the publication of the IPCC Report with its stark ‘code red for humanity’ warning, pose an urgent strategic question to everyone in the climate change
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In Part Two, John Molyneux looks at the limitations of state-planned economies operating within the capitalist system, and makes the ecosocialist case for the degrowth of some industries and growth of others. Read Part One here. Any discussion of growth or degrowth under socialism depends on one’s conception
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The government’s latest Climate Action Bill may pacify some, but Bríd Smith argues the legislation goes nowhere near far enough to tackle the fossil fuel industries and growth-addicted economy at the heart of our climate crisis. To much fanfare, PR spin and grand rhetoric, the Government have unveiled
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Ecosocialist groups are currently debating whether growth or degrowth is the appropriate demand for the movement. In this first part of a two article series, John Molyneux explores the concept of growth. Throughout most of the existence of the labour and socialist movement the dominant position has been to favour