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At Marxism 2020, Alexandra Day led a discussion on the politics of revolutionary socialism. We have published her talk in full, where she discusses the Irish revolutionary tradition, how revolutionary socialists engage in parliamentary projects, and the possibilities to grow from periods of crisis. If you’ve been following along
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2021 has started out with Ireland, north and south, being in its worst position since the pandemic began. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin takes both governments to task for their Covid response, arguing that it has been nothing short of neoliberal catastrophe. We have entered the year 2021 in total disaster. Ireland
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We are standing on the brink of a new world. Whether it proves better or worse than the battered world we live in now will be determined by ourselves. The year of the pandemic has been the worst of times. But the promise of a vaccine has sparked new hope.
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As negotiations between the UK and the EU go down to the wire, this second of two articles by economist Brian O’Boyle argues that workers should be supported whatever the outcome – and that a border poll should be high on our agenda. Part 1 can be read here: Bojo’
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As calls come for unions to shake off passivity in the the face of recent workers’ struggle, one touted alternative is to break away to form more left-wing red unions. As part of our Power in a Union series, Eddie Conlon argues that while this desire is at times
Ecosocialism
As Eamon Ryan’s Climate Action Bill is due to go before the Dáil, Bríd Smith TD exposes its multiple weaknesses and argues that it will do very little to tackle the planet’s greatest crisis. The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill (the Climate Bill) was supposed to
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In a piece originally published in June of this year in New Politics, Haley Pessin argues that this year’s Movement for Black Lives in the USA is of historic importance. Late May and early June saw the biggest wave of mass rebellion in the United States since the 1960s.
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As the deadline approaches for an agreement between the UK and the EU, the first of two articles by economist Brian O’Boyle looks at the roots of a Tory Brexit and assesses the current state of play. Boris Johnson’s political career is inextricably tied to Brexit. When David
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Using the US as a case-study, Hadas Thier explains how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the failures of for-profit healthcare, and argues for a democratically planned economy. This piece was originally published on Jacobin. One April morning at 4 AM, the chief physician at Baystate Health in Massachusetts
Ecosocialism
Originally published on the Global Ecosocialist Network. “The mud! Ye gods, imagine a cart full of whitish mud, filled with minutest shells, poured all wet and sticky and slimy on to some clean planks” – Lord George Campbell of the HMS Challenger. At approximately 6 o’clock in the morning on
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Recent headlines have celebrated Stormont’s plan to shake up housing. Housing expert Stewart Smyth analyses the announcement and argues that worryingly, privatisation looms large. There was a lot of fanfare recently when Minister for Communities, Carál Ní Chuilín (Sinn Féin), announced what she called the “most radical shake-up
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Fifty years ago this week, the trial of the Mangrove Nine began. Somhairle Mag Uidhir reviews its recent dramatisation by Steve McQueen, highlighting the structural racism and community struggle the case embodies. Within the wood-panelled and imperial walls of London’s Old Bailey, nine Black women and men took