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Kieran Allen explains how the Irish Government is preparing to prostrate itself to the Trump administration. In left-wing circles, the author Mark Fischer was known for the phrase ‘Capitalist Realism’ which was used as the title of his book. It claimed there were no real choices which override the
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Lamia Tadjine explains how the the Palestinian Authority collaborates with Israel and US imperialism to crush Palestinian resistance. The Palestinian Authority (PA) is portrayed by liberal media as Palestine’s only respectable political body that can represent the interests of Palestinians at an international level. The idea is often put
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Eamonn McCann reviews A Complete Unknown, the new film about Bob Dylan. There are some things about Bob Dylan’s music so obvious they are much misunderstood, including by trained Dylanologists on the lookout for mystical meanings. In fact, there’s no mystery. Much as we’d all have been
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Colin Redmond explores far-right gaming platforms and their function as a tool of radicalisation. The far right have been utilising videogames and adjacent social platforms (Discord; Twitch; Steam; Telegram; Rumble etc.) to spread their ideology of white supremacy and fascism and this is especially true since ‘Gamergate: 2014.’ Their
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Adrienne Wallace looks at the renewed assault on gender rights and how we can build a fight against it in the era of tech billionaires. “We’ve great women and we want them breeding. Our women are only breeding 1.5 or 1.6 children. That’s shocking for an
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Derry City and Strabane Cllr. Shaun Harkin argues that we need socialist organisation to build a challenge to an increasingly dangerous and authoritarian elite. Nigel Farage, Ian Paisley Jr. and Conor McGregor were all in the US to celebrate Donald Trump’s inauguration as US President. The danger Trump and
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Angy Skuce explains how Irish healthcare workers have been moved to action by the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. As I write this, Ireland is preparing for Storm Eowyn. I am thinking of my flight to Geneva, booked for Saturday morning, and hoping that I will make it
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Bill Mullen discusses the threat of a new Trump presidency and how he and his band of billionaires can be resisted. Within 24 hours of Donald inauguration the following events occurred: American Nazis and Neo-Nazis who took part in the January 6th, 2021, right-wing riot in Washington D.
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Vampires and capitalism, remakes and gimmicks: Odin O’Sullivan reviews Robert Eggers’ update to a classic of the horror genre, Nosferatu. In Capital: Volume 1, Karl Marx, in a suitably gothic turn of phrase, notes that “capital is dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and
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In the second part of his article on Syria, first published on Syria Untold, Joseph Daher looks at how events are unfolding since the fall of the Assad regime. He examines the nature of the new ruling HTS, its attempts to consolidate power, alliances with local states, reliance on neoliberal
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After 15 months of devastating attacks, the announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza has been greeted with relief among Palestinians and in the wider ranks of the global solidarity movement. Brian Kelly asks whether the US-brokered plan offers hope for permanent peace, or a viable pathway to Palestinian liberation.
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Kieran Allen argues that Lenin’s pamphlet, ‘Left-Wing’ Communism: An Infantile Disorder, written a hundred years ago, provides valuable guidance for socialists today. Many left wingers were put off this book because of the title. It sounds like a bad-tempered parent admonishing a bold child. The original title