Features
In the first of two articles on China, Adrian Budd looks at the Chinese economy and the headaches sputtering growth is causing for the country’s ruling class. 2025 is the Chinese year of the snake, associated with wisdom and renewal as old habits and ways of thinking are shed
Culture
Joe Biden’s bauble for Bono, in the form of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, reminds us of the U2 singer’s lifetime of service to imperialism. Harry Browne reflects on the record. To be brutally frank, there is no special shame or disgrace in receiving the USA’s Presidential
Ecosocialism
Eamon Ryan has shuffled off the political stage, but not before telling us that he “regrets none of the climate policies” the Green Party pushed. Owen McCormack takes him to task and argues that the environmental movement and climate activists urgently need to move beyond the Green Party’s neoliberal
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“Creating value is not enough – you also need to capture some of the value you create.” Sage advice from far-right tech billionaire, Peter Thiel, owner of IDF-linked Palantir. His one-time employee and Social Democrat TD, Eoin Hayes, was definitely listening. He captured a tidy €199,000 by
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Below Rebel reproduces the full text of an interview with Joseph Daher, author of Syria after the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience (Pluto Press, 2019) and a leading authority on revolutionary politics in the Middle East. The original appeared in Tempest, an online socialist magazine published by the
Ecosocialism
Maurice Coakley, in an important assessment of capitalist interstate rivalry, analyses the changing and contradictory nature of imperialism and its impact on revolt against the system. The end of the Cold War was supposed to bring a new era of peace and prosperity. Instead, we have economic turbulence, social unrest
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Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Greens in government have continued to allow our airspace to be used to transport arms to Israel, and have consistently refused to sanction Israel. This makes them complicit in the genocide in Gaza. Marnie Holborow argues, for this rotten record alone, any government politician
International
Israel’s policy of total war has brought devastation across Lebanon. Yet despite the brutality, signs of resilience are emerging from the rubble. Simon Assaf explores how Lebanon’s deep-rooted solidarity is standing firm, confronting new invasions as a defiant center of resistance. From the Dahieh Doctrine to the
International
Western leaders who have been silent for more than a year while genocide is carried out against Palestinians in Gaza found an occasion to come together to condemn ‘terror’. As Brian Kelly reports, it wasn’t the terror of the rich and powerful they stepped out to denounce, but the
Features
With a constant stream of media exposing genocidal war in Palestine, child labor in the Congo, and Indigenous struggles in South America, neoliberalism’s colonial nature is clearer than ever. Now is the time to return to the works of Fanon and explore a radically different future liberated from coloniality,
Features
As Israel attempts to clear the ground for carnage in Lebanon, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin calls out the Irish Government’s passivity in the face of Netenyahu and Biden’s march towards apocalypse. With no force among the ‘rules-based international order’ willing to call a halt, Israel keeps pushing the
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Joe Daly, People before Profit election candidate in Mayo, argues that the movement for Palestine, with the escalation of the war into Lebanon, needs to intensify. Thousands more people in Ireland are outraged at the extent of collaboration of our government and more radical and socialist voices in the campaign