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On the Friday of Marxism, before things had kicked off, I was moving boxes of t-shirts and posters on a trolley to where the event was being held. In the second lift I had to take, the trolley’s wheels got stuck in the door as I attempted to
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September 1, 1973, saw a US-sponsored coup defeat the democratically elected, Marxist-inspired government of Salvador Allende in Chile. The terror that followed sent shock waves through the international left. The idea of a parliamentary road to socialism lay buried beneath the body of Allende and the thousands of
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The Labour Party has been re-branded. It is now, according to Ivana Bacik, ‘a party of Connollyite Republicans’. Leaving aside the rhetorical flourish, this is welcome. Ever since the early 1970s, the Labour Party has tried to crush republicanism through repression. The key ideological figure was Conor Cruise O’
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In the opening scene of the TV series Deadwood, a US Marshall in Montana is confronted by a lynch mob determined to hang his prisoner, an alleged horse thief. The lawman’s response is to fashion a makeshift gallows and hang the man himself, thereby allowing him claim that some
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After two years of relentless genocidal bombardment, starvation and murder in Gaza, Israel and Hamas have agreed to a fragile and largely one-sided ceasefire during which Israel has continued bombing Gaza City and Khan Younis. Trump’s plan is not a peace plan; it is a plan to consolidate
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It seems a historic victory is on the horizon for Catherine Connolly in the Irish presidential election. At the time of writing the votes are still being counted, but every indication is that Connolly, an avowedly left-wing TD, will be the commanding winner. Early reports suggest she has mopped
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I go outside, look at my phone and smoke. There’s a drain on the ground full of cigarette butts, presumably travelling to the nearby sea. Out of it curl the leaves of some sort of Hawaiian plant, like the arms of a monster of the deep. An image of
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The ceasefire in Gaza, announced last week, was welcomed by many – understandably so. It provided some hope that daily bombings and the murder of Palestinian civilians would be ended. It meant that nearly 2,000 Palestinian hostages would be returned, many of whom had spent years imprisoned. Despite all Netanyahu’
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It is not often that the PR techniques of the political establishment are made so visible. But the former Fine Gael Minister, Ivan Yates has spelled it out. ‘Smear the bejaysus out of her’ was his advice on how to defeat Catherine Connolly. Fine Gael is already implementing it. They
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After two years of genocide, a so-called ‘peace plan’ is on the table for the Palestinians, and the ghasts and ghouls of Western imperialism have been trotted out to champion it. The 20-point document released yesterday at a White House press conference – President Donald J. Trump’s Comprehensive
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In March 2025 Google officially rolled out its AI Overview feature. Every user of the site will have observed it making glaring factual errors (those who haven’t simply did not notice them). This move has proven unpopular for the company yet they have no plan in reversing the decision.
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Former US President Barack Obama shares much with Henry Kissinger. Before they received their Nobel Peace Prizes, they both bombed other, more deserving Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. Kissinger bombed at least one Red Cross hospital in Cambodia in the 1970s and Obama bombed a Doctors without Borders (MSF) Hospital in