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Socialism 101: Isn’t a free market the most efficient way to run an economy?
By Michael O’Brien Taking inspiration from pro-capitalist economists from Adam Smith in the late 18th century, through to…
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.…
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.…
“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…
The fate of half-revolutions – lessons of Chavismo
By Darragh O’Dwyer The neoliberal nightmare set loose on Latin America in the 1980s was particularly brutal in…
Expel and Replace: Israeli settler colonialism & the erasure of Palestinian life
By Sam Casey Despite a so-called “ceasefire”, the genocide and enforced starvation of the Palestinian people of Gaza…
250 years since his birth: Daniel O’Connell – a bourgeois liberal with conservative instincts
By James McCabe Daniel O’Connell, the leader of the 19th-century fight for Catholic Emancipation in Ireland, is revered…
Socialism 101: If people work hard, don’t they deserve to be rich?
By Eddie McCabe The slogan ‘Billionaires Should Not Exist’ has become popular in recent years, and it’s one…
25 years since Palestinian anger exploded in the Second Intifada
By Donal Devlin Twenty-five years ago this month, Palestinians living under military occupation rose in mass revolt against…
Frantz Fanon at 100: Review of ‘A Dying Colonialism’
By Manus Lenihan Today marks one hundred years since the birth of Frantz Fanon. A psychiatrist by profession,…