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I worked hard on Catherine Connolly’s campaign alongside members of the Irish Labour Party. Their leader, Ivana Bacik, is a TD from the same constituency. Afterwards, I was sceptical when I heard her claim that the Labour Party had become a ‘Connollyite republican party’. I thought, however, this could
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The University of Galway governing body is hiding from consequences like a war criminal trying to dodge the firing squad. The hole that has been dug by the President, the Údarás and the University Management Team is so deep and so damning that they cannot leave their offices without facing
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As the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) concluded in Brazil, offering the world its 30th helping of hollow promises and business-friendly targets, a small country on the opposite side of the continent delivered a verdict of its own. On 16 November, the people of Ecuador overwhelmingly defeated a
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General Fabien Mandon was dressed up in his full military regalia to deliver a message to France. They had to prepare for war and, he warned, if the country ‘falters because it is not ready to accept losing its children . . . then we are at risk”. In the same week, the
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Arguably lesser known, György Lukács is perhaps one of the most important Marxists of the 20th century. A Hungarian philosopher who began writing his work as a literary theoretician, he was radicalised by the first world war and the Russian revolution. It was in 1923 that he wrote his most
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Paschal Donohoe has landed a plum job as no. 2 at the World Bank in Washington DC. He is in line to receive a salary and expenses of over $600,000 per annum, tax-free. Much attention has focused on what this means for Irish politics, but what does it
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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