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Brian Kelly explains how Trump has ripped away all pretence when it comes to the pursuit of US imperialist interests, arguing that these actions could provoke an anti-imperialist response far greater than his administration might have bargained for. It seems hard to believe, but just two weeks ago many
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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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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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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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“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
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
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Joseph Daher, author of a recent book, Palestine and Marxism, writes that amid drawn-out suffering in Palestine and Lebanon, we should not despair. He argues that resistance from below against our own complicit states offers a way forward. Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza shows no
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,