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US: War, ICE raids, authoritarianism & economic malaise-Eight million march against Trump

By Harper Cleves “I’ve become a rabble rouser in my retirement.” This is what my 65-year-old father said to me on the phone after attending a ‘No Kings’ protest on 28 March in rural Idaho, with around 500 other locals. He is

Apr 3, 2026

Latest·Theory & History

Socialism 101: Can ‘international law’ defend people’s rights?

By Jonathan Diebold Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro. The Zionist State’s genocide of the Palestinians. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. These actions and many other recent horrors have been declared ‘illegal’ and war crimes under international law. Yet they continue to happen, leading many

Mar 31, 2026

Campaigns & Issues·News & Analysis

Limerick: Save ‘Boro Park’ – defend community shared spaces

Fight for permanent public housing for all Well over 150 people showed up to Our Lady Queen of Peace School in Janesboro last Wednesday evening for a meeting with the Mayor of Limerick, John Moran, who has proposed a plan to install

Mar 30, 2026

News & Analysis

Oppose Government’s plans to build more prisons

By Varun In a recently published report, the Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee found Ireland’s prisons to be “degrading and unworthy.” Over 350 people are sleeping on mattresses on the floor in Irish prisons. According to Tony Power, the President of the

Mar 26, 2026

A shameful desecration: No building over Bessborough Mother and Baby Home

By Marie Claire Jennequin The decision to grant planning permission for a 140-unit apartment development on the grounds of the former Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork represents a profound moral and political failure. It isn’t just a question of housing

Mar 22, 2026

Reviews and Culture

Review: Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere

Reviewed by Manus Lenihan In the 2007 documentary The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux interviewed members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a hate group that protested the funerals of dead soldiers and did paranoid, homophobic covers of Lady Gaga songs.

Mar 19, 2026

Anti-war·Economy·News & Analysis

Imperialist war on Iran fuels a new cost-of-living crisis

By Finghín Kelly The US and Israel’s war on Iran is unleashing bloodshed, suffering, and chaos all over West Asia. Hundreds of thousands are being displaced, thousands of ordinary people in Iran have been killed, and millions of lives are being put

Mar 13, 2026

World News

“The rich want war – the youth, a future” – School student strike against conscription in Germany

By Conor Tormey “I don’t think I’ll be dying for my friends, relatives or acquaintances, in the worst-case scenario. Rather, in the end, only for those who are put into the trenches for the interests of large corporations like Rheinmetall, ThyssenKrupp, and

Mar 13, 2026

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Looksmaxxing, Mogging & the Sexual Market Place: the latest far-right manosphere subculture

By Harper Cleves CW: misogyny, racism, self-harm, body dysmorphiaThe year 2026 has been ‘epic’ in the most disastrous and devastating of ways: ongoing genocide in Palestine; the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro; a release of millions of pages of the Epstein

Mar 12, 2026

Anti-war·Featured Articles·World News

The bloody inferno in Iran: No to this imperialist war for power and profit

By Bob S. We are on day 11 of Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war on Iran, and already the human and environmental toll of this colonial adventure is piling up with devastating consequences. What are the aims and justifications for the attack? For

Mar 10, 2026

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