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Alexandra Day reviews Silvia Federici’s seminal work, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. First published in 2004, Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici is a work well worth revisiting in 2020. The call to ‘stay at home’ during the pandemic has raised vital questions
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By exploring the roots and impact of the Gothic novel, Paul O’Brien illustrates how vampires and monsters are expressions of changing class relations – and fears – during the 18th and 19th century. I first came across the phrase ‘Gothic Marxism’ in a report of a talk by the writer China
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Writing on behalf of the All-Ireland NHS campaign, Chris Carroll analyses the limits of the current plan for fixing healthcare: Sláintecare. He argues the lessons of history show that instead of its technical approach we need a broad movement to win a 32-county universal healthcare system. “Medicine is
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In a dispatch from the USA, socialist Donna Murch writes of how solidarity, mutual aid and union organising have sustained her through the horrors of the pandemic. In my life, the pandemic has been a study in paradox. “Social distancing” and all of the trauma wrought by COVID-19 have
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Despite the heroic efforts of overworked and underpaid frontline workers, the pandemic has exposed the sorry state of health services north and south. Conor Reddy argues that the case for an All-Ireland National Health Service has never been stronger. As Covid-19 case numbers rise and hospitals once again
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A key demand of the Debenhams workers is the implementation of the Duffy-Cahill report. Continuing our Power in a Union series, Diarmuid Ó Seanacháin Dálaigh highlights the important precedent it would set while maintaining that being organised is the best weapon we have. Commissioned in 2016, the Duffy-Cahill
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With phrases like “protect the vulnerable” & “underlying conditions” currently all around us, disability activist Ruth Flood looks at the horrendous treatment of disabled people under capitalism. The Covid-19 pandemic has been an absolute disaster for disabled people. From the cutting of services and the lack of particular supports
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Following Part One, Mark Walsh now explores the impact of the metabolic rift over the 20th century, including how the drive of capitalist forms of agriculture and primary industry have led to species extinction, ecological collapse and the increased outbreaks of deadly epidemics. The development in 1909, by the German
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In contrast to the misconception that Marx and Engels were only concerned about economics, in this first of two articles, Mark Walsh highlights how they in fact had plenty to say about environmental degradation, focusing in particular on thier notion of a metabolic rift. “Let us not, however, flatter ourselves
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With the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI) ballot on equal pay, conditions and Covid measures due to close this Thursday, ASTI member Mark Walshe (personal capacity) calls for an emphatic Yes vote. ASTI members are currently balloting on several issues. Prior to the lockdown in March, ASTI had decided
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As cases continue to rise, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that the only way to avoid a winter crisis and future rolling lockdowns is an All-Ireland Zero Covid strategy which protects workers and puts public health first. As we approach the end of October, we are entering the kind of
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In the wake of the heavy-handed policing of Debenhams workers and Black Lives Matter protesters, Sadhbh Mac Lochlainn takes apart the myth that the police are there to simply ‘protect and serve’. In Ireland today there is an argument put forward by many about the Gardaí and it goes