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Mandelson Scandal exposes the rot at the core of the British Establishment

By Niall Dooris The fallout from the latest release of “Epstein Files” has rocked many global elites with close connections to the world’s most notorious sex trafficker and child abuser (for more detail on the scale of this, see our recent article

Feb 12, 2026

News & Analysis

Extreme weather disruptions: Workers lives and safety must not be sacrificed

By Michael O’Brien The ever-increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, especially storms and floods, and the implications for workers has put the questions about who pays during enforced shutdowns of workplaces or workers opting for health and safety reasons not

Feb 12, 2026

Theory & History·What is Socialism?

Socialism 101: Don’t we need capitalist entrepreneurs to create wealth and jobs?

By Eddie McCabe A system as obscenely unequal as capitalism has to create and constantly promote certain myths. To morally justify a world where 12 individuals have more wealth than the poorest 4 billion people combined, it’s necessary to make people believe

Feb 10, 2026

Environment·Latest·News & Analysis

Fourth flood warning in 10 days as flood defence schemes flounder

By Jonathan Diebold The disaster movie 2012 shows a world ravaged by extreme weather events, apparently predicted hundreds of years prior by the Mayan civilisation. But it doesn’t take an ancient Mesoamerican prophecy to predict the floods which have afflicted Ireland recently,

Feb 6, 2026

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·World News

Epstein horror story: truth far stranger than fiction

By James McCabe “I don’t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of any interest to anybody. It’s pretty boring stuff. It’s sordid, but it’s boring. I think only really-bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going.”

Feb 6, 2026

World News

The Minnesota revolt against Trump’s war on migrants

By Conor Payne The Trump administration has developed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a key tool in their racist plan for ‘mass deportations’, but also in their broader efforts to establish a far-right authoritarian regime in the US. ICE, alongside similar

Feb 3, 2026

News & Analysis

Government leaning into the far-right playbook on immigration

By Robert Cosgrave Describing the racist political climate of 1970s Britain, the Sri Lankan Tamil socialist A. Sivanandan commented that “what Enoch Powell [a Farage-type figure in Britain at the time] says today, the Tories say tomorrow and Labour legislates on the

Jan 30, 2026

Theory & History·World News

“Kalaallit Nunaat, Kalaallit pigaat” – Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders

By Lenn Viken Since the beginning of this new year, we have been reminded again and again that we are living in the midst of a capitalist crisis and an imperialist hellscape. Now, Trump has openly put his next target on the

Jan 27, 2026

World News

Will capitalism bring progress in the coming years?

By James McCabe Out with the old optimistic rhetoric In 2023, the old-school big tech liberal Bill Gates proclaimed that he was “very optimistic that it’d be much better to be born 20 years from now… than any time in the past.”

Jan 24, 2026

On ‘left alliances’ – the opposition, cooperation, and the next government

By Eddie McCabe In a world of demagogic “strongman” leaders like Trump, Putin and Netanyahu, and spineless ones like Keir Starmer or Micháel Martin, having a left-wing President like Catherine Connolly is something to be thankful for. Indeed, many people around the

Jan 23, 2026

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