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Latest·News & Analysis·Palestine solidarity·Reviews and Culture

Irish artists pull out of SXSW festival in solidarity with Palestine

By Finn McKenna On 10 March, Belfast Irish-language rap artists Kneecap announced that they would not be performing at this summer’s SXSW festival in Austin Texas. Within two days, all ten Irish acts scheduled to perform at the festival pulled out. One

Mar 13, 2024

Reviews and Culture

Review: All of Us Strangers directed by Andrew Haigh

All of Us Strangersdirected by Andrew HaighSearchlight Pictures, 2024 By Michael Shiel Based on the novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada but given a new title, there is something universal about All of Us Strangers. It looks at loneliness and longing, and how

Mar 12, 2024

World News

Why does US imperialism back the Israeli State?

By Donal Devlin On 25 February, 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell, a serving member of the US Air Force, tragically died of wounds incurred from self-immolation in an act of protest against the genocide in Gaza. It was a desperate expression of outrage at

Mar 11, 2024

Anti-war·World News

Two years of murderous imperialist scramble over Ukraine

By Walter Chambers The brutal killing of Russia’s leading oppositionist, Alexey Navalny in an Arctic penal colony near to the town of Salekhard has, on the eve of the Second Anniversary of Putin’s horrific invasion of Ukraine dominated the world media. Incidentally

Mar 10, 2024

As Gaeilge·Palestine solidarity

Tá aird an domhain ar Rafah – cinedhíothú in Gaza ag eirí níos measa!

Le James McCabe, aistrithe ag Leah Whelan Tá fírinne leis an nath cainte “ní briathra a dhearbhaíonn ach gníomh”. Chuir Joe Biden in iúl a imní do shibialtaigh Phalaistíneacha atá leochaileach agus gan chosaint. Ach, a mhalairt a bhí fíor – mar

Mar 8, 2024

Socialist Feminism

Socialist Feminists rise up: Against genocide & the fascist threat

The text of the Socialist Party leaflet for International Women’s Day 2024 On 29 February, Israeli forces opened fire on malnourished Palestinians in Gaza gathering at aid trucks in what has now been dubbed ‘the flour massacre.’ Over 100 were killed, leaving

Mar 8, 2024

Palestine solidarity·World News

Stop the Israeli regime’s genocidal war on Gaza. Step up worldwide mobilisations

Socialist feminists against war, imperialism and capitalism — for Palestinian national and social liberation, for an end to all forms of oppression and “divide and rule”. On International Women’s Day this year we mobilize to step up the struggle to stop the

Mar 7, 2024

Latest·News & Analysis

The mounting crises facing third level students

By Conor Tormey The government’s disdain for students and young people continues as students face the mounting cost of living, the mental health crisis that the existing pitiful services are unable to cope with, and the student accommodation crisis. Private accommodation chaos

Mar 6, 2024

Theory & History·What is Socialism?

Socialism 101: How do Marxists view religion?

By Conor Payne As Karl Marx wrote: “Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and

Mar 5, 2024